Rethinking Canadian Aid : Second Edition / edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer, David R. Black.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Stephen, 1967- editor.

Den Heyer, Molly, 1972- editor.

Black, David R. (David Ross), 1960- editor.

Series:

Studies in international development and globalization.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance, Canadian.

Canada--Foreign economic relations.

Canada.

Canada--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa 2016

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, this revised edition not only analyzes Canada's past development assistance, it also highlights important new opportunities in the context of the recent change in government. Designed to reach a variety of audiences, contributions by twenty scholars and experts in the field offer an incisive examination of Canada's record and initiatives in Canadian foreign aid, including its relatively recent emphasis on maternal and child health and on the extractive sector, as well as the longer-term engagement with state fragility. The portrait that emerges is a sobering one. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada's changing role in the world.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid?

Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy

I. Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy

II. Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada

III. Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

IV. Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness

V. Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance

Section II: The Canadian Context And Motives

VI. Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective

VII. Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas

VIII. Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture

IX. The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest?

Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes

X. Gender Equality and the "Two CIDAs": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2015

XI. From "Children-in-Development" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming?

XII. Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here?

XIII. Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving beyond the "Afghanistan Model"

XIV. Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of the Harper Government's De Facto Aid Policy

XV. Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance

Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-7766-2365-6

OCLC:

965729637

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_612090