Internationalism under Strain : The North-South Policies of Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden / Cranford Pratt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pratt, Cranford, editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries.

Economic assistance.

Economic development.

Canada--Foreign economic relations--Developing countries.

Canada.

Scandinavia--Foreign economic relations--Developing countries.

Scandinavia.

Netherlands--Foreign economic relations--Developing countries.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have, to varying degrees, earned a reputation for being more responsive to Third World needs and aspirations than other developed industrial societies. This greater measure of humane internationalism is a product of the combined influence of a wide range of factors that includes religious, political, economic, and diplomatic traditions. But Cranford Pratt cautions against exaggerating the internationalist thrust of the North/South policies, particularly in the case of Canada. In this volume a number of senior scholars offer interpretive essays on the North/South policies of these four middle powers. The contributors have all worked extensively on these issues; they are neither naively optimistic nor fatigued and despondent about what has been accomplished or what lies ahead. The concluding chapter is a comparative study of the role of humane internationalism in the policies of these four countries and a prognosis of the influence which a humane middle-power internationalism may yet have on Northern responses to the challenge of global poverty.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Humane Internationalism: Its Significance and Its Variants / Pratt, Cranford

2. Canada: An Eroding and Limited Internationalism / Pratt, Cranford

3. The Netherlands: Principles and Pragmatism / Cooper, Charles / Verloren Van Themaat, Joan

4. Norway: The Hesitant Reformer / Hveem, Helge

5. Sweden: Towards a Realistic Internationalism / Södersten, Obo

6. Middle Power Internationalism and North-South Issues: Comparisons and Prognosis / Pratt, Cranford

Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Reprinted in 2018"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7986-1

OCLC:

1114862344