Review: Aid and Human Rights: The Third World in Global Environmental Politics
| Author | Heather A. Smith |
| Published date | 01 June 1996 |
| Date | 01 June 1996 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209605100209 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
364
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
ing
relations
with
the
Third
World
and post-Cold
War
states
in
light
of
present
global power
shifts
and
disparities.
In
the
book's
defence,
debating
the central
purposes
of
pro-
grammes
that
Canadians think
are
intended
to
help
others
remains
valid.
Pratt
sees
in
the
government's
resolutely
pragmatic
1995
foreign
policy
statement,
Canada
in
the
World,
a
diminishing
'pride
in
the
liberal
internationalist
activities
through
which
Canadians once
significantly
defined
ourselves
as
a
people.'
Nevertheless,
documenting
the
cumu-
lative
compromises
of
bureaucratic
politics
and
statecraft
influenced
by
dominant
economic
and
security
interests
is
hardly a
sufficient
basis for
constructing
credible
alternative
approaches.
Attempting
the
creative
leap
to
North-South
development
co-operation based
on
global
prin-
ciples
of
equity
and
solidarity
rather
than on
national
self-interest
would
take
a
different
book.
In
revising
his
conclusion
for
the
new
paperback
edition, Pratt
no longer
questions
whether
a
more
idealistic
era
has
ended;
its
demise
is
announced,
as
much
in
sorrow
as
in
anger.
For
a
still
hopeful
and
achievable
next
chapter
to
be
written,
therefore,
the
flame
may have to
be
rekindled
to
improve
policies
towards
the
poorer
parts
of
the
world
in
ways
that
will
also
prepare
Canadians
to
confront
the
critical
challenges
of
the
coming
century.
Gerald
Schmitz/Library
of
Parliament
THE
THIRD
WORLD
IN
GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLITICS
Marian
A.L. Miller
Boulder
co:
Lynne
Rienner,
1995,
ix,
18opp,
US$4o.oo
cloth,
US$17.
9 5
paper
In
her
book,
Marian
Miller seeks
to
assess
the role
and
impact
of
the
Third
World in
the
development
and
evolution
of
three
international
environmental
regimes:
ozone
depletion,
trade
in
hazardous
waste,
and
biodiversity.
She
places
this
assessment
in
the
context
of
a
world
defined
by
economic, environmental,
and
social
globalization.
Her
con-
clusion
is
that
ecological
globalization,
being
different
from
economic
globalization, provides
the Third
World
with
some
leverage
although
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