T his book would not have been possible without a Connections Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), whose generous support allowed us, among other things, to hold an authors' workshop at Dalhousie University in September 2013, organized by Dalhousie's Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies, and ably coordinated by David Morgan. We are very grateful to all authors for their exceptional efforts to

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... t the tight timeframes of this project and to the other participants in the workshop who greatly enhanced the quality of the discussion. We also thank others who contributed to the success of the workshop, especially Jill Campbell-Miller, Mary Ruth Machan and Ben O'Bright. In addition, we would like to thank Taylor & Francis Ltd. for allowing us to publish Chapter 9, which has been adapted from an article that originally appeared in French in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, as well as the Canadian International Council for publishing excerpts from some of the conference papers on their OpenCanada.org platform (CIC 2013a) and hosting a live video conversation on the theme of Rethinking Canadian Aid, moderated by John McArthur (CIC 2013b). We are also grateful to the University of Ottawa Press staff, especially Lara Mainville, Dominike Thomas and Elizabeth Schwaiger, for their support and assistance, including for the publication of this updated and otherwise improved second edition; to Dana Hayward, for help with the manuscript preparation; to Susan James for copy-editing, Linda Gustafson for typesetting, Joanne Muzak for proofreading and Heather Ebbs for indexing; to SSHRC, for support to the second edition via an Insight Grant held by Stephen Brown; and to the University of Ottawa Library for funding that permitted this book to be available via open access.