Rethinking Canadian aid

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid?......Page 14
Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy......Page 28
I Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy......Page 30
II Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada......Page 50
III Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective......Page 68
IV Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness......Page 84
V Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada’s Development Assistance......Page 102
Section II: The Canadian Context And Motives......Page 118
VI Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in
Longitudinal Perspective......Page 120
VII Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid
to the Americas......Page 146
VIII Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force?
Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture......Page 164
IX The Management of Canadian Development Assistance:
Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest?......Page 184
Section III: Canada’s Role in International Development
on Key Themes......Page 200
X Gender Equality and the “Two CIDAs”: Successes and
Setbacks, 1976–2015......Page 202
XI From “Children-in-Development” to Social Age
Mainstreaming in Canada’s Development Policy and
Programming?......Page 218
XII Canada’s Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished
and Where Do We Go from Here?......Page 234
XIII Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving
beyond the “Afghanistan Model”......Page 250
XIV Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an
Illustration of the Harper Government’s De Facto Aid Policy......Page 268
XV Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance......Page 286
Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation – Towards Renewed Partnerships?......Page 308
Contributors......Page 326
Index......Page 334