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\"Canada and the Third World provides a much needed and long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the countries of the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and imagined \"development\"? How can we integrate Canada into global histories of empire, decolonization, and development? And how should we understand the relationship between issues such as poverty, racism, gender equality, and community development in the First and Third World alike? The anthology begins with a general introduction followed by 9 essays. Each essay ends with discussions questions and suggestions for further reading.\"-- Provided by publisher.

Contributors include Marie Bernard-Meunier (Atlantik Brücke), David Black (Dalhousie), Adam Chapnick (Toronto), Ann Denholm Crosby (York), Roy Culpeper (The North-South Institute), Christina Gabriel (Carleton), John Kirton (Toronto), Wenran Jiang (Alberta), David Malone (Foreign Affairs Canada), Nelson Michaud (École nationale d'administration publique), Isidro Morales (School for International Service), Christopher Sands (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Daniel Schwanen (The Centre for International Governance Innovation), Yasmine Shamsie (Wilfrid Laurier), Elinor Sloan (Carleton), Andrew F. Cooper (The Centre for International Governance Innovation), and Dane Rowlands (The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs)

\"In Security Aid, Jeffrey Monaghan explores Canadian humanitarian practices that focus on countries in the Global South. These practices have increasingly focused on enhancing regimes of surveillance, policing, prisons, border control and security governance. Monaghan's critical analysis of the securitization of humanitarian aid combines interviews with security experts and declassified material made available via the Access to Information Act. Canadian humanitarian assistance has commonly been framed around altruistic impulses however Monaghan reveals that in practice, these ideals are subordinate to two overlapping objectives: the advancement of Canadian strategic interests and the development of security states in the 'underdeveloped' world. The thousands of documents obtained over a five year period will be made available by the website www.securityaid.ca. Three cases studies of the major aid programs in Haiti, Libya, and South East Asia offers comprehensive analysis and reinterpretation of Canada's place in global affairs. Security Aid's unique account of Canada's role in global affairs forces us to reconsider dominant assumptions of Canada as a nation with a principled foreign policy.\"-- Provided by publisher.

01 02 In Finance, Politics and the Dominions , Andrew Dilleyoffers a major new contribution to the history of British imperialism and of the 'British World'. Drawing on a considerable range of archival, press, and other contemporary sources, he uses a comparative approach to highlight the ways in which dependence on London finance shaped political life in Australia and Canada between 1896 and 1914, and shows how these impacts were in turn shaped by the processes of economic development in these settler capitalist societies. Deploying an innovative combination of economic, business, political, and cultural history,his studythrows new light onto debates about gentlemanly capitalism, and the cultural economy of the British world. It offers fresh insights into the history of the City of London, and into Anglo-Dominion relations, and Australian and Canadian politics, and more broadly, insists on the importance of political economy in the history of the British empire. 02 02 Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time. 13 02 ANDREW DILLEY received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and lectured in Imperial and Commonwealth History at King's College London before taking up his current Lectureship in History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. 31 02 A contribution to major debates on financial imperialism and British relations with the 'old' dominions, examining the impact of London finance on political life in Edwardian Canada and Australia. 04 02 List of Tables List of Graphs Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction PART I: THE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS OF CAPITAL EXPORT Capital Imports and Economic Development in Two Settler Societies Australian and Canadian Borrowing in the Edwardian City PART II: THE CITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND SETTLER SOCIETIES The Rules of the Game Risk, Empire, and Britishness PART III: THE POLITICS OF FINANCE  Canadian Politics and London Finance, 1896-1914 The Politics of Finance in Three Australian States: Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia, 1901-1914 Influence Stumped? The Commonwealth and the City, 1901-1913 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index   19 02 Contributes to a revival of interest in the political economy of empire and the history of the settlement empire Offers new insights into the workings of the financial sector of the City of London A comparative study of Edwardian Australian and Canadian politics, showing the impact of London finance Combines the tools of economic, business, political and cultural history in an innovative fashion

\"Obligations and Omissions: Canada's Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality offers a critical analysis of Canada's commitments to gender equality programming. The chapters in this collection document Canada's equivocal approach, and overall diminished role, in the promotion of gender equality between 2006 and 2015. Drawing on rich theoretical analysis, empirical research and discourse analysis, the chapters reveal a complex picture of diverse practices in this time frame, underscoring the implications of these actions for communities in the Global South, for Canada's image in the international community and for future governments in the pursuit of a renewed gender equality strategy.\"-- Provided by publisher.

01 02 This book highlights the activities of a category of actors understudied in the field of governance for sustainable development. Situated between the local and the national level of governance, subnational governments have significant responsibilities in key issues for sustainable development. Firstly, the book studies how these governments have taken up the challenge of designing sustainable development policies domestically. Secondly, it examines subnational involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development, with particular attention to the interactions that take place between multiple levels of governance. With new empirical material on the experiences of subnational governments in seven countries across Western Europe and North America, the contributors consider what challenges they are facing on the eve of Rio+20. 31 02 This book studies the importance of subnational governments in designing sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development 02 02 This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development. 13 02 HANS BRUYNINCKX is Director of HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society) and Professor of International Relations at KU Leuven, Belgium. SANDER HAPPAERTS is Senior Research Associate at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), KU Leuven, Belgium. KAROLINE VAN DEN BRANDE is Researcher at the Institute for International and European Policy, KU Leuven, Belgium. 16 02 Newig, Jens, Jan-Peter Voß, and Jochen Monstadt, eds. Governance for sustainable development. Coping with ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed power. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008. Petschow, Ulrich, James N. Rosenau, and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, eds. Governance and sustainability. New Challenges for States, Companies and Civil Society. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2005. Lafferty, William M., ed. Governance for Sustainable Development. The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004. 04 02 List of Tables List of Figures Preface; E.Zaccai Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments; K.Van den Brande , H.Bruyninckx & S.Happaerts PART I: SUBNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES The Social and Political Construction of Sustainable Development in Quebec: A Critical Analysis of the Quebec Sustainable Development Policy; R.Audet & C.Gendron Inclusive Governance or Incrementalism? The Choice of a Sustainable Development Governance Model for Flanders; K.Bachus & S.Spillemaeckers Sustainable Development Policies in the Basque Country; A.de la Peña & I.Barcena Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error Along Two Tracks of Governance; S.Happaerts Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesländer; K.Jörgensen Dutch Provincial Sustainable Development Policies: Ambitions and Differences; F.Coenen PART II: MULTI-LEVEL INTERACTIONS IN A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT Spanish Subnational Involvement in Multi-Level Sustainable Development Issues; K.Hanf & F.Morata A 'Responsibility' to Act Globally: Investigating the Welsh Assembly Government's Engagement in nrg4SD; E.Royles Routes to Global Decision-Making: Flanders in the UN and OECD Discussions on Sustainable Development; K.Van den Brande Subnational Involvement in EU Policy-Making: The Case of Scottish Flood Risk Management; A.Högenauer Green Paradiplomacy in North America: Successes and Limits of the NEG-ECP; A.Chaloux & S.Paquin Conclusion The State of Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Subnational Level; K.Van den Brande , S.Happaerts & H.Bruyninckx Index 19 02 First book to explore the importance of subnational governments in relation to sustainable development Explores the role of subnational governments in decision-making on sustainable development Draws on empirical data from the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, and the US Includes a cast of international authors from across Europe and North America Perfect timing in run-up for Rio+20 summit on sustainable development in 2012

01 02 International institutions, including the United Nations and World Bank, and numerous multinational companies (MNCs) have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. Yet the scale and scope of problems confronting indigenous peoplescaused bymineral extraction projects endorsed by governments, international agencies and MNCs is monumental. This raises a paradox: Despite the burgeoning number of international charters and national laws asserting the rights of indigenous peoples, they find themselves subjected to discrimination, dispossession and racism. The authorsexplore this paradox by examining mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad and Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines. 16 02 Blaser, Mario, Harvey A. Feit, and Glen McRae (eds.), In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2004) is the only book that deals with the issues analysed in this study. The proposed volume, however, deals in far greater depth with the theme of indigeneity and development, while also linking it to the issue of public-private cooperation. Postero, Nancy, Now We are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) and Sawyer, Suzana, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004) deal with similar issues to the proposed volume, specifically the link between neoliberalism, multiculturalism and indigenous identity. These two books are, however, authored volumes, each focusing on only one country. The proposed edited volume provides an original comparative study involving nine countries. 19 02 Assesses the merits of public-private cooperation as a means to sensitize businesses to the problems that accompany major mineral extraction projects Shows how public-private partnerships eventually lead to the problem of institutional capture; undermining the neutrality of the state Highlights the need for governments and international agencies to create inclusive consultative platforms that provide indigenous groups an avenue to participate in decisions that affect their way of life Examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad and Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines 02 02 International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. 13 02 SUZANA SAWYER Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is the author of Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador and numerous articles. Her current work examines a longstanding transnational lawsuit on alleged oil contamination. EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ Professor of Political Economy at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Previously, he has held appointments at Leeds University, Murdoch University, Kobe University and UNRISD in Geneva, Switzerland. His publications include Political Business in East Asia and The State, Development and Identity in Multi-ethnic Countries: Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation . 31 02 Indigenous peoples are increasingly subject to discrimination, exploitation, dispossession and racism, despite the growing number of international charters and national laws to protect their rights 04 02 Transnational Governmentality in the Context of Resource Extraction; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez On Indigenous Identity and a Language of Rights; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez State, Capital, Multinational Institutions and Indigenous Peoples; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez Indigenous Rights, Mining Corporations and the Australian State; J.Altman Extracting Justice: Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State; T.Perreault The Broker State and the 'Inevitability' of Progress: The Camisea Project and Indigenous Peoples in Peru; P.Urteaga-Crovetto Development, Power and Identity Politics in the Philippines; R.D.Rovillos & V.Tauli-Corpuz The Nigerian State, Multinational Oil Corporations and the Indigenous Communities of the Niger Delta; B.Naanen Identity, Power and Development: The Kondhs in Orissa, India; V.Xaxa Public-Private Partnership and Institutional Capture: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Chad and Cameroon; K.Horta Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Canada; M.Davis Attending to the Paradox: Public Governance and Inclusive International Platforms; S.Sawyer & E.T.Gomez Appendix 1: International Conventions and IFI Policies on Indigenous Rights Appendix 2: Cross-Section of Domestic Legislation Pertaining to Indigenous Rights Appendix 3: Legal Institutions and Authorities for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights

Based on case studies of five Third World countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines, China, Indonesia, and Suriname - Gillies explores the extent to which policy principles were applied in practice, showing that consistent, coordinated, and principled action is elusive even for countries with a reputation for internationalism. He highlights the growing rift between North Atlantic democracies and emerging Asian economic powers, the effectiveness of using aid sanctions to defend human rights, and the vicissitudes of human rights programming in emerging democracies.

Several economies in the Caribbean region, especially from the lower income group, are highly dependent on remittances. Between 1991 and 2006, the combined flows of total remittances reaching the Caribbean have seen almost a 17% average annual growth rate, surpassing USD 6billion in 2005 and overtaking ODA and FDI into the region. In addition, remittances represent more than 20% of the domestic gross domestic product (GDP) in some Caribbean countries and have played a significant role in lessening both balance of payment deficits and the impact of natural disasters to which the region is particularly vulnerable. Given the importance of such remittance flows, this study undertakes an analysis of the various dynamics underlying the Canada-Caribbean remittance corridor, including Caribbean migration issues, remittance market landscapes and regulatory frameworks. This study is intended to assist Canadian and Caribbean national authorities in their mandate of providing incentives for the continued growth and competitiveness of their remittance industries, while protecting remittance markets from being abused by criminals.

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should be seen as fundamentally similar economic initiatives to pursue free trade, Francesco Duina proposes that the world is reorganizing itself into regions that are highly distinctive and enduring. With evidence from Europe, North America, and South America, he challenges our understanding of globalization, the nature of markets, and the spread of neoliberalism. The pursuit of free trade is a profoundly social process and, as such, a unique endeavor wherever it takes place. In an unprecedented comparative analysis, the book offers striking evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations--interest groups, businesses, and national administrations--to a broader marketplace. The author gives special attention to developments in three key areas of economic life: women in the workplace, the dairy industry, and labor rights. With its bold and original approach and its impressive range of data,The Social Construction of Free Traderepresents a major advance in the growing fields of economic sociology and comparative regional integration.