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This study aims at reviewing the justification and evolutionary context of international development cooperation from historical view points. In this line, this paper reviews the paradigm formation of international development cooperation through the social evolution perspective, the contents of modernization theory, the impacts of the Marshall Plan since 1948 and the United Nations expert report (1951). This article also looks at the results of a series of high-level meetings organized by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on the changing approach of international development cooperation. The results of the review are as follows. First, international development cooperation is justified in terms of maintaining the global economic order. In this light, international development cooperation has been derived from unfair trade practices and past colonial rule. Second, international development cooperation has been based on the sustainability of human civilization, which should be jointly responded altogether to climate change and other environmental crises. Third, international development cooperation is justified from a humanitarian standpoint. This humanitarian stance is also linked to the security guarantee of the international community, which defines human basic needs as universal welfare levels for mankind.