Which theoretical framework explains the relationship between donor and recipient country in International Relations?

Dear Adnan , you can get the idea as to theoretical frame work studying  extensively the considerable relevant material. In the mean time , i can suggest you the following reading . It might be helpful for your.

Thanks for the paper Dr Abbasi, its very helpful in constructing my narrative. 

Dear Adnan, 

Try some of these early articles for a good theoretical foundation. Hans Singer and Wallerstein are also big on dependency theory, which could be of relevance to you for a critical perspective. 

Good luck!

On aid for Pakistan during the global war on terror specifically, see Bessma Momani on "The IMF, the U.S. War on Terrorism, and Pakistan." The link is below.

For a theoretical perspective, I believe that it's a straightforward application of Marxist/ Gramscian hegemony in that the US used its predominant position at the IMF to steer emergency lending Pakistan's way over for security-related concerns.

Given that you are looking at the foreign aid from the U.S. to Pakistan, you will find Carol Lancaster's work on Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development and Domestic Politics quite insightful.  You might also take a look at one of my co-authored piece on aid with a focus on Korea and Africa--see attached; and best of luck!  

One of the more inspiring and recent books I've read that looks at the donor landscape and foreign aid is Ben Ramlingham's Aid in the Age of Chaos - it is really worth just buying and I got it on kindle so a bit cheaper. It gives a very critical view of the donor/recipient divide and offers some good insights. Also some others include the paper by Gounder (Australia specific) and a good one on how the neoliberal model is the driver. Another one I found is also attached. Best wishes - Karen

Dear Adnan,

In my view you could start your work with relative legal documents (e.g. treaties, agreements).

Dr D. Kioukias

Dear Adnan: 

Yau can checkhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/228275821_Newcomers_to_LikeMinded_Aid_and_Donor_Darlings_The_Strange_Case_of_Spain_in_Vietnam

Best wishes 

Francisco Sánchez

Hi, great thread.

Have you considered that perhaps what relates donor and recipient countries in the international system has changed over the course of the period you are looking at, and that defining states as actors in this context is problematic?

I am currently exploring Mark Bevir's decentred approach -- anti-foundational analysis by way of ethnographic and historical methods. His framework, as I am beginning to understand it, rejects essentialist definition of the state instead framing the idea of politics through reference to cultural practice. 

I am currently reading:

The Logic of the History of Ideas, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (and very much relying on background in philosophy).

I expect the core theoretic text to anchor my work my work will be:

The State as Cultural Practice (with R.A.W. Rhodes), Oxford University Press, 2010.

 "... persuasive narratives ... benefit from exchanging a problematic view of language as a quasi-structure in which individuals are provided with beliefs to one in which historical individuals inherit intellectual traditions but are nonetheless creative actors who can adopt and change beliefs within any given language. In turn, this shift opens up fresh questions and perspectives on the evolving relationship between modern capitalism and ideas of social justice. Greater attention needs to be given to the pluralistic and evolving nature of intellectual traditions, how individuals and groups deal with dilemmas and change their beliefs, and the ways in which reform traditions and capitalism are not merely opposites but interwoven processes, deeply implicated in the evolution of each other"

As Torgeir Pande Braathen wrote it, a good theoretical foundation is important. Let me add information on a new development in theory. Dependency theory and Walelrstin's world system argument lack a firm economic theory and ingore east Asian experience. Please read my post on Didier D. Boko-haya's question and the paper attached there. In the latter I made a short comment on dependency theory.

"Does aid promote national development?"