Awards

• Winner of Hill Times 100 Best Political Books of 2015 (#67) 2015 (Canada)

Overview

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. Published in English.

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Author:   Stephen Brown ,  Molly den Heyer ,  David R. Black
Publisher:   University of Ottawa Press
Imprint:   University of Ottawa Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780776623641

ISBN 10:   0776623648
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   26 May 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid? Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy 1. Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy, David R. Black 2. Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada, Adam Chapnick 3. Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective, John D. Cameron 4. Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness, Molly den Heyer 5. Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance, Ian Smillie Section II: The Canadian Context and Motivations 6. Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective, Liam Swiss 7. Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas, Laura Macdonald and Arne Ruckert 8. Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture, Justin Massie and Stephane Roussel 9. Why Aid? Canadian Perception of the Usefulness of Canadian Aid in an Era of Economic Uncertainty, Dominic H. Silvio 10. The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest? Francois Audet and Olga Navarro-Flores Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes 11. Gender Equality and the ""Two CIDAs"": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2013, Rebecca Tiessen 12. From ""Children-in-Development"" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming: Practice, Prospects and Proposals, Christina Clark-Kazak 13. Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here? David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy 14. Canada and Development in ""Other"" Fragile States, Stephen Baranyi and Themrise Khan 15. Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of Changes and Continuities in the New De Facto Canadian Aid Policy, Gabriel C. Goyette 16. Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance, Stephen Brown Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships? David R. Black, Stephen Brown, and Molly den Heyer Contributors Index"

Reviews

Strongly recommended. (...) well-designed and copyedited, (...) reasonably priced (open access) (...) Great value for money and excellent additions to one's library. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2017.1272440 -- Grant Dawson * Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpement * Rethinking Canadian Aid s'impose non seulement comme une lecture obligatoire pour ceux et celles qui s'interessent a la transformation du role du Canada en matiere de developpement international, mais egalement aux debats portant sur les changements propres a l'ere Harper. Considerant aussi le fait que ce livre soit en libre acces sur Internet (www.bit.ly/CdnAidpdf), nous ne pouvons que saluer cette brillante initiative qui en fait un ouvrage veritablement incontournable. -- Marc-Andre Anzueto, candidat au doctorat en science politique * Politique et Societes, vol. 35, n Degrees 2-3, p. 267-269 * Rethinking Canadian Aid s'impose non seulement comme une lecture obligatoire pour ceux et celles qui s'interessent a la transformation du role du Canada en matiere de developpement international, mais egalement aux debats portant sur les changements propres a l'ere Harper. Considerant aussi le fait que ce livre soit en libre acces sur Internet (www.bit.ly/CdnAidpdf), nous ne pouvons que saluer cette brillante initiative qui en fait un ouvrage veritablement incontournable. -- Marc-Andre Anzueto * Politique et Societes, vol. 35, n Degrees 2-3, 2016, p. 267-269. *

Rethinking Canadian Aid s'impose non seulement comme une lecture obligatoire pour ceux et celles qui s'interessent a la transformation du role du Canada en matiere de developpement international, mais egalement aux debats portant sur les changements propres a l'ere Harper. Considerant aussi le fait que ce livre soit en libre acces sur Internet (www.bit.ly/CdnAidpdf), nous ne pouvons que saluer cette brillante initiative qui en fait un ouvrage veritablement incontournable. -- Marc-Andre Anzueto Politique et Societes, vol. 35, n 2-3, 2016, p. 267-269.

Rethinking Canadian Aid s'impose non seulement comme une lecture obligatoire pour ceux et celles qui s'interessent a la transformation du role du Canada en matiere de developpement international, mais egalement aux debats portant sur les changements propres a l'ere Harper. Considerant aussi le fait que ce livre soit en libre acces sur Internet (www.bit.ly/CdnAidpdf), nous ne pouvons que saluer cette brillante initiative qui en fait un ouvrage veritablement incontournable. -- Marc-Andre Anzueto Politique et Societes, vol. 35, n 2-3, 2016, p. 267-269. Rethinking Canadian Aid s'impose non seulement comme une lecture obligatoire pour ceux et celles qui s'interessent a la transformation du role du Canada en matiere de developpement international, mais egalement aux debats portant sur les changements propres a l'ere Harper. Considerant aussi le fait que ce livre soit en libre acces sur Internet (www.bit.ly/CdnAidpdf), nous ne pouvons que saluer cette brillante initiative qui en fait un ouvrage veritablement incontournable. - Marc-Andre Anzueto, candidat au doctorat en science politique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, anzueto.marc_andre@uqam.ca, dans Politique et Societes, vol. 35, n 2-3, 2016, p. 267-269. (Sept. 2016)

Author Information

Stephen Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa and the editor of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid. Molly den Heyer is Senior Program Analyst with the Coady International Institute at St. Francis Xavier University and a research fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. David R. Black is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies and Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University.

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