Rethinking Canadian aid / / edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black.

• Superior document: Studies in international development and globalization
• Author: Stephen Brown
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Stephen, 1967-; Heyer, Molly den, 1972-; Black, David R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ottawa, Ontarion : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in international development and globalization.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

This book contributes to a "rethinking" of Canadian aid on four levels. First, by undertaking a collective rethink of the foundations of Canadian aid. Second, through an analysis of how the Canadian government is rethinking Canadian aid, with a greater focus on the Americas as well as spec...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid?
• Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy
• Chapter I: Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy
• Chapter II: Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada
• Chapter III: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective
• Chapter IV: Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness
• Chapter V: Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance
• Section II: The Canadian Context and Motivations
• Chapter VI: Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective
• Chapter VII: Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas
• Chapter VIII: Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture
• Chapter IX: Why Aid? Canadian Perception of the Usefulness of Canadian Aid in an Era of Economic Uncertainty
• Chapter X: The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest?
• Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes
• Chapter XI: Gender Equality and the "Two CIDAs": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2013
• Chapter XII: From "Children-in-Development" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming? Practice, Prospects and Proposals
• Chapter XIII: Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here?
• Chapter XIV: Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving beyond the "Afghanistan Model"
• Chapter XV: Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of Changes and Continuities in the New De Facto Canadian Aid Policy.
• Chapter XVI: Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance
• Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships?
• Contributors
• Index.