A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid

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Canada’s foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada’s 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada’s future foreign aid policy. 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 since the 1960s, 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. Front Cover Half Title Page Series Page Full Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 | ENTERING THE AID WORLD, 1950–1960 1| Encounter and Apprenticeship: The Colombo Plan and Canadian Aid in India, 1950–1960 2 | “Reasonably Well-Organized”: A History of Early Aid Administration 3 | Developing the World in Canada’s Image: Hugh Keenleyside and Technical Assistance PART 2 | DEVELOPMENT, DIPLOMACY, AND TRADE,1953–1991 4 | “A One Way Street”: The Limits of Canada’s Aid Relations with Pakistan,1958–1972 5 | One Size Fits All? Canadian Development Assistance to Colombia,1953–1972 6 | Samaritanos canadienses?: Canadian Development Assistance in Latin America during the Trudeau Years 7 | “Trotsky in Pinstripes”: Lewis Perinbam, CIDA, and the Non-Governmental Organizations Program, 1968–1991 PART 3 | IMAGERY AND SYMBOLISM 8 | Building a Base: The Growth of Public Engagement with Canadian Foreign Aid Policy, 1950–1980 9 | Pictures in Development: The Canadian International Development Agency’s Photo Library 10 | “Tears Are Not Enough”: Canadian Political and Social Mobilization for Famine Relief in Ethiopia, 1984–1988 PART 4 | THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CANADIAN AID, 1980–2018 11 | Canadian Development Assistance to Latin America 12 | CIDA and Aid to Africa in the 1990s: A Crisis of Confidence 13 | A Samaritan State?, Canadian Foreign Aid, and the Challenges of Policy Coherence for Development CONCLUSION Concluding Reflections: Beyond Aid Bibliography Contributors Index Back Cover