University of SaskatchewanHARVEST
  • Login
  • Submit Your Work
  • About
    • About HARVEST
    • Guidelines
    • Browse
      • All of HARVEST
      • Communities & Collections
      • By Issue Date
      • Authors
      • Titles
      • Subjects
      • This Collection
      • By Issue Date
      • Authors
      • Titles
      • Subjects
    • My Account
      • Login
      JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
      View Item 
      • HARVEST
      • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      • View Item
      • HARVEST
      • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      • View Item

      Is development different? : tracing interests-based, values-driven policy in A Role of Pride and Influence in the World

      Thumbnail
      View/Open
      WilliamsFinal28Oct.pdf (824.2Kb)
      Date
      2009-10
      Author
      Williams, Meagan A.
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
      Metadata
      Show full item record
      Abstract
      This thesis continues the discussion of the role of interests and values as determinants of Canadian foreign policy by examining closely their treatment in the Martin government’s 2005 foreign policy statement, A Role of Pride and Influence in the World (RPIW). The purpose of the thesis is to capture the expression and interplay of interests and values within RPIW vis-à-vis past foreign policy expressions. It begins by presenting a literature review of selected works by Denis Stairs, Jennifer Welsh, Kim Richard Nossal and Cranford Pratt, which will reveal the state of the discourse on the role of interests and values in Canadian foreign policy. It proceeds with a textual analysis of RPIW: Overview, comparing its structure and content to those which appear in Canada in the World (1995), Competitiveness and Security (1985) and Foreign Policy for Canadians (1970). This textual analysis ends with the conclusion that RPIW not only incorporates past criticisms by Denis Stairs and Kim Richard Nossal, but also seems to embrace the interests-driven, values-based orientation put forward by Jennifer Welsh in At Home in the World. However, as the thesis moves on to a comparison of RPIW: Overview and RPIW: Development, the thesis exposes the fact that in RPIW: Development, the interests-based, values-driven approach seems to have been abandoned in favour of policies, such as the section titled “Good Governance,” that use values as policy drivers in and of themselves. The thesis concludes that development, despite the Martin government’s deliberate efforts in RPIW, appears to be a consistently altruistic, values-driven exercise. If aid effectiveness has any hope of being strengthened, it must be done under both an acknowledgement of the altruistic character of the development enterprise, as well as careful thought as to what the desired outcome of Canadian development policy ought to be.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Political Studies
      Program
      Political Studies
      Supervisor
      Story, Donald C.
      Committee
      Elabor-Idemudia, Patience; Deonandan, Kalowatie; Steeves, Jeffrey S.; Michelmann, Hans J.
      Copyright Date
      October 2009
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-10262009-143843
      Subject
      foreign policy statements
      interests-value debate
      Canadian foreign policy
      Canadian Official Development
      altruism
      Collections
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      University of Saskatchewan

      University Library

      © University of Saskatchewan
      Contact Us | Disclaimer | Privacy