Canada Africa Relations

Author : Yiagadeesen Samy,Rohinton P. Medhora
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780986707759

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Canada-Africa Relations by Yiagadeesen Samy,Rohinton P. Medhora Pdf

A wave of optimism has swept the African continent in the past decade. The pace and extent of social change in recent years, when measured in life expectancy, child and infant mortality rates, literacy, numeracy and the completion of higher education, is quite remarkable. The urban middle class is emerging and expanding in many African countries, while political democracy is developing and strengthening. These positive changes are generating economic growth and attracting foreign investment across the continent, especially in the resource sector. But Africa is still viewed by many as the “dark continent” dealing with serious problems — civil wars, ethnic division, corruption, HIV/AIDS, poverty, food security and the disastrous effects of climate change — and these issues may well impede the upward trajectory of Africa. Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead — the 27th volume of the influential Canada Among Nations series — analyzes the ebb and flow of Canada’s engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa through different lenses over the past few decades and also looks to the future, highlighting the opportunities and the difficulties that exist for Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is clear that a new Africa is emerging, and Canada must be prepared to change the nature of its relationship with the continent.

Author : Edward Ansah Akuffo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317169994

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Canadian Foreign Policy in Africa by Edward Ansah Akuffo Pdf

After over fifty-years of Canadian engagement with Africa, no comprehensive literature exists on Canada's security policy in Africa and relations towards Africa's regional organizations. The literature on Canada's foreign policy in Africa to date has largely focused on development assistance. For the first time, Edward Akuffo combines historical and contemporary material on Canada's development and security policy while analyzing the linkage between these sets of foreign policy practices on the African continent. The book makes an important contribution to the debate on Canada's foreign policy generally, and on Africa's approach to peace, security and development, while shedding light on a new theoretical lens - non-imperial internationalism - to understand Canada's foreign policy. The author captures an emerging trend of cooperation on peace, security, and development between the Canadian government and African regional organizations in the twenty-first century. The resulting book is a valuable addition to the literature on African politics, new regionalisms, foreign policy, global governance, and international development studies.

Author : Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : University Press of America
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X000404199

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Canadian Relations with South Africa by Brian Douglas Tennyson Pdf

This book originated as a doctoral thesis for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. It is about the history of South Africa and Canada.

Author : David R. Black
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771120623

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Canada and Africa in the New Millennium by David R. Black Pdf

Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is concerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie Canadian involvement. Focusing on the period following 2000, and by juxtaposing Jean Chrétien’s G8 activism with the Harper government’s retreat from continental engagement, David R. Black’s Canada and Africa in the New Millennium illustrates a history of consistent inconsistency in Canada’s relationship with Africa. Black combines three interpretive frames to account for this record: the tradition of “good international citizenship”; Canada’s role as a benign face of Western hegemonic interests in Africa; and Africa’s role as the basis for a longstanding narrative concerning Canada’s ethical mission in the world. To examine Africa’s place in Canada’s foreign policy—and Canada’s place in Africa—Black focuses on G8 diplomacy, foreign aid, security assistance through peace operations and training, and the increasingly controversial impact of Canadian extractive companies. Offering an integrated account of Canada’s role in sub-Saharan Africa, Black provides a way of understanding the nature and resilience of recent shifts in Canadian policy. He underscores how Africa—though marginal to Canadian interests as traditionally conceived—has served as an important marker of Canada’s international role.

Author : Robin S. Gendron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773578579

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Towards a Francophone Community by Robin S. Gendron Pdf

Using extensive archival research, Gendron rebuts the argument of Quebec nationalists and scholars that the Canadian government's neglect of French Africa forced Quebec to develop its own international identity. Towards a Francophone Community shows that there had been active federal interest in French African affairs since the late 1940s, within the context of developments in NATO and the Cold War, the vagaries of Canada's relations with France, and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

Author : Yves Engler
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1552667626

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Canada in Africa by Yves Engler Pdf

Yves Engler continues his groundbreaking analyses of past and present Canadian foreign policy. The author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and other works that challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the "scramble for Africa" and European colonialism. The book reveals Ottawa's opposition to anticolonial struggles, its support for apartheid South Africa and Idi Amin's coup, and its role in ousting independence leaders Patrice Lumumba and Kwame Nkrumah. Based on an exhaustive look at the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa shows how the federal government pressed African countries to follow neoliberal economic prescriptions and sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, as well as how Canada's indifference to climate change means a death sentence to ever-growing numbers of Africans.

Author : Joanne Naiman,Joan Bhabha,Guy Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:77536502

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Relations Between Canada and South Africa by Joanne Naiman,Joan Bhabha,Guy Wright Pdf

Author : Susan Lee Brown,McMaster University. Department of Political Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:181777066

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Canadian Foreign Policy Decision-making by Susan Lee Brown,McMaster University. Department of Political Science Pdf

Author : Linda Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X004133570

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The Ambiguous Champion by Linda Freeman Pdf

The Ambiguous Champion is the First Comprehensive and critical study of Canadian foreign policy towards South Africa. Freeman challenges the conventional belief that successive Canadian governments took the high road, leading the international struggle against apartheid. She shows that Canadian policy, like the policy of other Western states, was complex, ambiguous, and contradictory. Freeman's approach offers an alternative understanding of the forces shaping Canadian foreign policy. Legend has it that Canadian prime ministers, from Diefenbaker to Mulroney, led the way in the international campaign against the apartheid state in South Africa. Yet before Mulroney came to power, except on a few occasions in the Commonwealth, Canadian prime ministers did little to support the anti-apartheid cause. While Mulroney did significantly better, invoking concrete economic sanctions and tackling Margaret Thatcher within the Commonwealth, the policies of his government were compromised and limited; the claims made for it excessive. The state championed a cause, but followed through in a highly ambiguous way. Central to the explanation is an exploration of the influence groups within civil society, especially the private sector, on the formation of state policy. Attention is also given to the way which churches, trade unions, universities, anti-apartheid groups, and the media played in calling for a stronger Canadian policy against apartheid. The approach offers an alternative way of understanding how foreign policy is made which goes beyond the South African case. The Ambiguous Champion will challenge scholars in Canada and abroad in their analyses of relations with South Africa. It is a majorcontribution to both the history and theory of Canadian foreign policy.

Author : Economic Council of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040426541

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For a Common Future by Economic Council of Canada Pdf

Author : Robert W. Murray,Paul Gecelovsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030677701

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The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs by Robert W. Murray,Paul Gecelovsky Pdf

This book argues that Canada and its international policies are at a crossroads as US hegemony is increasingly challenged and a new international order is emerging. The contributors look at how Canada has been adjusting to this new environment and resetting priorities to meet its international policy objectives in a number of different fields: from the alignment of domestic politics along new foreign policies, to reshaping its international identity in a post-Anglo order, its relationship with international organizations such as the UN and NATO, place among middle powers, management of peace operations and defense, role in G7 and G20, climate change and Arctic policy, development, and relations with the Global South. Embracing multilateralism has been and will continue to be key to Canada’s repositioning and its ability to maintain its position in this new world order. This book takes a comprehensive look at Canada’s role in the world and the various political and policy variables that will impact Canada’s foreign policy decisions into the future. Chapter 22 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Jean-Bruno Mukanya Kaninda-Muana
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782296487116

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Les relations entre le Canada, le Québec et l'Afrique depuis 1960 by Jean-Bruno Mukanya Kaninda-Muana Pdf

Cinquante ans après les indépendances, l'Afrique est-elle encore une priorité pour le Canada et le Québec ? Sa coopération avec l'un et l'autre a-t-elle atteint l'âge de la maturité ? Les relations entre les trois ont-elles un avenir ? Ce livre veut contribuer à aider le Canada, le Québec et l'Afrique à mieux se connaître et mieux se comprendre afin de mieux coopérer.

Author : Nathan Andrews,J. Andrew Grant
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487522452

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors by Nathan Andrews,J. Andrew Grant Pdf

With reference to global governance initiatives aimed at promoting ethical business practices, this volume offers a timely examination of Canada-Africa relations and natural resource governance.

Author : Young Women's Christian Association of Canada. World Relationships Committee. Study and Action Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081735453

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Investment in Oppression by Young Women's Christian Association of Canada. World Relationships Committee. Study and Action Committee Pdf

Author : Diane Francis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443424417

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Merger Of The Century by Diane Francis Pdf

No two nations in the world are as integrated, economically and socially, as are the United States and Canada. We share geography, values and the largest unprotected border in the world. Regardless of this close friendship, our two countries are on a slow-motion collision course—with each other and with the rest of the world. While we wrestle with internal political gridlock and fiscal challenges and clash over border problems, the economies of the larger world change and flourish. Emerging economies sailed through the meltdown of 2008. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that by 2018, China's economy will be bigger than that of the United States; when combined with India, Japan and the four Asian Tigers—South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong--China's economy will be bigger than that of the G8 (minus Japan). Rather than continuing on this road to mutual decline, our two nations should chart a new course. Bestselling author Diane Francis proposes a simple and obvious solution: What if the United States and Canada merged into one country? The most audacious initiative since the Louisiana Purchase would solve the biggest problems each country expects to face: the U.S.'s national security threats and declining living standards; and Canada's difficulty controlling and developing its huge land mass stemming from a lack of capital, workers, technology and military might. Merger of the Century builds both a strong political argument and a compelling business case, treating our two countries not only as sovereign entities but as merging companies. We stand on the cusp of a new world order. Together, by marshalling resources and combining efforts, Canada and America have a greater chance of succeeding. As separate nations, the future is in much greater doubt indeed.