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

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Published date01 December 2020
Date01 December 2020
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/0020702020977355
Subject MatterBook Reviews
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Those who long to reignite conversations about world peace will find this book
a welcome addition. As Bellamy notes, states have shown a remarkable ability to
go from peaceful to war-like, and vice versa, in short spans of time. That some of
the world’s leading states have returned to using the rhetoric and pomp of war
does not mean that things cannot change. Instead, Bellamy argues, that we must
all work together to force peace to be the key issue for all states in the global
system. The frustration, as with debates surrounding climate change, is that evi-
dence has been gathered, goals have been adopted, and institutions have been
formed and staffed—states must simply follow through on their commitments.
As Bellamy notes, “When it comes to world peace, we don’t need to reinvent
the wheel; we need to make sure that it turns” (p. 179).
Nathan Andrews and J. Andrew Grant, eds.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors,
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 296pp. $36.95 (paper)
ISBN: 978-1-4875-2245-2
Reviewed by: David J. Hornsby (david.hornsby@carleton.ca), Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada.
Amidst the backdrop of the recent Canadian Supreme Court ruling that held that
Canadian corporations are accountable for their actions abroad,2 the publication
of Andrews and Grant’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in
Africa’s Extractive Sectors feels timely and important. The book, which ties togeth-
er a collection of provocative and empirically rich contributions from a group of
scholars who maintain a deep understanding of this area, considers just how
Canadian corporate interests and foreign policy actions intersect and play out
within Sub-Saharan Africa. By focusing on the concept of corporate social respon-
sibility and actions of the Canadian extractive sector, a deep-dive into an impor-
tant element of Canada’s foreign economic engagements is laid bare, and reminds
readers that the extractive sector is big...

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