A Samaritan State Revisited

Author : Greg Donaghy,David Webster
Publisher : Beyond Boundaries: Canadian De
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1773850407

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A Samaritan State Revisited by Greg Donaghy,David Webster Pdf

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada's official development assistance in the 1950s and specific themes in its evolution and professionalization after 1960, this collection is the first to explore Canada's history with foreign aid with this level of interrogative detail. Extending from the 1950s to the present and covering Canadian aid to all regions of the Global South, from South and Southeast Asia to Latin America and Africa, these essays embrace a variety of approaches and methodologies ranging from traditional, archival-based research to textual and image analysis, oral history, and administrative studies. A Samaritan State Revisited weaves together a unique synthesis of governmental and non-governmental perspectives, providing a clear and readily accessible explanation of the forces that have shaped Canadian foreign aid policy.

Author : Adam Chapnick
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774861649

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Canada on the United Nations Security Council by Adam Chapnick Pdf

As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa’s attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians – and international observers – shocked and disappointed. Canada on the United Nations Security Council tells the story of that defeat and what it means for future campaigns, describing and analyzing Canada’s attempts since 1946, both successful and unsuccessful, to gain a seat as a non-permanent member. Impeccably researched and clearly written, this is the definitive history of the Canadian experience on the world’s most powerful stage.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623689

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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER by Evelyn Waugh Pdf

Author : Robert MacNeil
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773632230

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Thirty Years of Failure by Robert MacNeil Pdf

Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions at home. How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain? In Thirty Years of Failure, Robert MacNeil examines Canada’s changing climate policy in meticulous detail and argues that the failure of this policy is due to a perfect storm of interrelated and mutually reinforcing cultural, political and economic factors — all of which have made a functional and effective national climate strategy impossible. But as MacNeil reveals, the factors preventing a sensible, sustainable climate policy in Canada are also the keys to change, and he offers readers an understanding of the strategies and policies required to decarbonize the Canadian economy and make Canada a global leader on climate change once again.

Author : Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor late Elinor Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191535338

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The Samaritan's Dilemma by Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor late Elinor Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar Pdf

What's wrong with foreign aid? Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called into question its ability to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, or promote social development. At the macro level, only tenuous links between development aid and improved living conditions have been found. At the micro level, only a few programs outlast donor support and even fewer appear to achieve lasting improvements. The authors of this book argue that much of aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. These institutions govern the complex relationships between the main actors in the aid delivery system and often generate a series of perverse incentives that promote inefficient and unsustainable outcomes. In their analysis, the authors apply the theoretical insights of the new institutional economics to several settings. First, they investigate the institutions of Sida, the Swedish aid agency, to analyze how that aid agency's institutions can produce incentives inimical to desired outcomes, contrary to the desires of its own staff. Second, the authors use cases from India, a country with low aid dependence, and Zambia, a country with high aid dependence, to explore how institutions on the ground in recipient countries also mediate the effectiveness of aid. Throughout the book, the authors offer suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness. These suggestions include how to structure evaluations in order to improve outcomes, how to employ agency staff to gain from their on-the-ground experience, and how to engage stakeholders as "owners" in the design, resource mobilization, learning, and evaluation processes of development assistance programs.

Author : Dominika Skrzypek,Alicja Piotrowska,Rafał Jaworski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004463684

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The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic by Dominika Skrzypek,Alicja Piotrowska,Rafał Jaworski Pdf

This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference.

Author : Robert Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0851891055

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Nazareth Revisited by Robert Roberts Pdf

Author : Brendan Kelly
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0774838973

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The Good Fight by Brendan Kelly Pdf

The Birth of a French Canadian Nationalist, 1915-41 -- Premières Armes: Ottawa, London, Brussels, 1941-47 -- The Making of a Diplomat and Cold Warrior, 1947-55 -- A Versatile Diplomat, 1955-63 -- Departmental Tensions: Cadieux, Paul Martin Sr., and Canadian Foreign Policy, 1963-68 -- A Lonely Fight: Countering France and the Establishment of Quebec's "International Personality," 1963-67 -- The National Unity Crisis: Resisting Quebec and France at Home and in la Francophonie, 1967-70 -- The Politician and the Civil Servant: Pierre Trudeau, Cadieux, and the DEA, 1968-70 -- Ambassadorial Woes: Washington, 1970-75 -- Final Assignments, 1975-81

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309459570

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Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse Pdf

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Author : Asa McKercher,Michael D. Stevenson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774868860

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North of America by Asa McKercher,Michael D. Stevenson Pdf

In 1941, influential publishing magnate Henry Luce wrote a stirring essay on American global power, declaring that the world was in the midst of the first great American century. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? From constitutional reform to transit policy, from national security to the arrival of television, Canadians were ever mindful of the American experience. This sharp-eyed study provides a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the fore the opinions and perceptions of a broad range of Canadians – from consumers to diplomats, jazz musicians to urban planners, and a diverse cross-section in between.

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199700680

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Global Good Samaritans by Alison Brysk Pdf

In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own. Each year, Sweden contributes over $3 billion to aid the world's poorest citizens and struggling democracies, asking nothing in return. And, a generation ago, Costa Rica defied U.S. power to broker a peace accord that ended civil wars in three neighboring countries--and has now joined with principled peers like South Africa to support the United Nations' International Criminal Court, despite U.S. pressure and aid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are alive today because they have been sheltered by one of these nations. Global Good Samaritans looks at the reasons why and how some states promote human rights internationally, arguing that humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism--it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Human rights as a principled foreign policy defies the realist prediction of untrammeled pursuit of national interest, and suggests the utility of constructivist approaches that investigate the role of ideas, identities, and influences on state action. Brysk shows how a diverse set of democratic middle powers, inspired by visionary leaders and strong civil societies, came to see the linkage between their long-term interest and the common good. She concludes that state promotion of global human rights may be an option for many more members of the international community and that the international human rights regime can be strengthened at the interstate level, alongside social movement campaigns and the struggle for the democratization of global governance.

Author : Jill Campbell-Miller,Greg Donaghy,Stacey Barker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774866439

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Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds by Jill Campbell-Miller,Greg Donaghy,Stacey Barker Pdf

Where are the women in Canada’s international history? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds gathers scholars to explore the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian international affairs. They examine the lives and careers of professionals employed abroad as doctors, nurses, or economic development advisors; those fighting for change as anti-war, anti-nuclear, or Indigenous rights activists; and women working as diplomatic spouses or as diplomats themselves. This lively, wide-ranging collection reveals the vital contribution of women to the search for global order that has been a hallmark of Canada’s international history.

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774868587

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Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats by Patrice Dutil Pdf

Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, its challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as mismatched unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea to create a consensus. Because the prime ministers are typically the ones supporting a compromise, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders. Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ministers – from Sir John A. MacDonald to Justin Trudeau – have shaped foreign policy. This innovative focus is destined to trigger a new appreciation for the formidable personal attention and acuity involved in a successful approach to external affairs.

Author : James M. Buchanan,Geoffrey Brennan,Hartmut Kliemt,Robert D. Tollison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3540419705

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Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics by James M. Buchanan,Geoffrey Brennan,Hartmut Kliemt,Robert D. Tollison Pdf

This book contains a range of essays on topics in the emerging field of "constitutional political economy". This field of enquiry is strongly associated with the name of James M. Buchanan whose research program has been the point of departure for this field. The essays are a selection of those written by colleagues and researchers in the field to honor Buchanan on the occasion of his 80th birthday. They cover a wide range of topics but fall primarily into two sets: one set dealing with methodological aspects of the c.p.e. approach; the other dealing with specific applications in a variety of policy areas, ranging from "economic transformation" to monetary policy regimes to health care. One particular issue in the methodological area relates to the model of motivation used - and more especially, the role of "morality" in economic and political behavior. The five essays on this topic make up one of the sections of the book, and justify reference to the issue in the volume's title.

Author : Bertin Martens,Uwe Mummert,Peter Murrell,Paul Seabright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139432627

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The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid by Bertin Martens,Uwe Mummert,Peter Murrell,Paul Seabright Pdf

This book is about the institutions, incentives and constraints that guide the behaviour of people and organizations involved in the implementation of foreign aid programmes. While traditional performance studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the policies and institutions in recipient countries, this book looks at incentives in the entire chain of organizations involved in the delivery of foreign aid, from donor governments and agencies to consultants, experts and other intermediaries. Four aspects of foreign aid delivery are examined in detail: incentives inside donor agencies, the interaction of subcontractors with recipient organizations, incentives inside recipient country institutions, and biases in aid performance monitoring systems.