Introduction to International Development : Approaches, Actors, and Issues

International Development programs at the undergraduate level have burgeoned throughout the world in recent years. Formerly found on the margins of mainstream academic units, and largely confined to graduate studies, these programs pioneered both multidisciplinarity and praxis (the combination of academic analysis and real-world engagement with development issues) in the university and college setting. The appeal and common sense behind this approach, as well as the way developmental studies has connected with students' values, has brought development into the mainstream academy as an identifiable discipline. The Introduction to International Development textbook sets out to respond to the particular needs of undergraduate international development programs - namely their inherent multidisciplinarity and their normative concern with praxis. Previous texts have typically been anchored within specific disciplinary traditions and have generally overlooked contributions from other disciplines to crucial debates in international development. Given that most international development programs of study are multidisciplinary in nature, there is a clear need for a text that is explicitly multidisciplinary in its approach to the key issues.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE; PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; 1. Meaning, Measurement and Morality in International Development - Jessica Schafer, Paul A. Haslam, Pierre Beaudet (University of Ottawa); 2. Imperialism and the Colonial Experience - Eric Allina-Pisano (University of Ottawa); 3. Theories of Development - Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba); 4. Post-Development - Eunice Sahle (University of North Carolina); 5. Gender and Development - Andrea Martinez (University of Ottawa); 6. Globalization and Development - Pierre Beaudet (University of Ottawa); PART II: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTORS; 7. State of the State: Does the State Have a Role in Development? - Anil Hira (Simon Fraser University); 8. National Development Agencies and Bilateral Aid - Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa); 9. The International Financial Institutions - Marcus Taylor (Queen's University); 10. The United Nations Multilateral Actors in Development - David Sogge (Transnational Institute); 11. Multinational Corporations - Paul A. Haslam (University of Ottawa); 12. Civil Society and Development - Henry Veltmeyer (St Mary's University); PART III: ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; 13. Poverty and Exclusion: From Basic Needs to the Millenium Development Goals - David R. Morrison (Trent University); 14. Debt and Development - Joseph Hanlon (The Open University); 15. Free Trade and Fair Trade - Gavin Fridell (Trent University); 16. Democracy - Cedric Jourde (University of Ottawa); 17. Environment and Development - Deborah Sick (University of Ottawa); 18. Rural Development - Joshua Ramisch (University of Ottawa); 19. Development and Health - Ted Schrecker (University of Ottawa); 20. Education and Development - Richard Maclure (University of Ottawa Refaat Sabbah (Teacher's Creativity Centre); 21. Conflict and Development - Astri Suhrke and Torunn Wimplemann Chaudhary (Chr. Michelsen Institute); 22. International Migration and Development - Khalid Koser (Brookings Institute); 23. Indigenous Peoples: A Category in Development - Natacha Gagne (University of Ottawa); 24. Technology, Information and Development - Erwin A. Alampay (University of the Philippines); 25. Culture and Development - Nissim Mannathukkaren (Dalhousie University); EPILOGUE: CHINA, GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT - SAMIR AMIN; LIST OF ACRONYMS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

About the Author :
Paul Haslam is Assistant Professor at the International Development and Globalization Program, at the University of Ottawa. He is the co-editor of Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions. He has also worked as Senior Analyst at the Canadian Foundations for the Americas, a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa that works on issues of public policy in Latin America. Professor Haslam's teaching and research interests span both international development and international political economy. His current research focuses on state-firm relations in Latin America (particularly Argentina and Chile), the international regulation of foreign direct investment, corporate social responsibility, and the political economy of institutional reform in Latin America. Jessica Schafer is an Assistant Professor at the International Development and Globalization Program, at the University of Ottawa. Professor Schafer's current research examines the relationship between social and environmental change in Mozambique from the late nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on forests and wildlife. Her previous research projects, with the universities of Oxford, Sussex, and Victoria, include livelihoods and natural resource management in post-conflict situations; post-conflict social and political change; reintegration of demobilized soldiers after civil war; and early childhood development in Africa. She has conducted research for the United States Agency for International Development, the Overseas Development Institute, and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom. Pierre Beaudet is Replacement Professor at the International Development and Globalization Program, at the University of Ottawa. He has 25 years of experience in international development as a researcher and manager of various programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and as a consultant for CIDA, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and several Canadian and international NGOs.