Canada Among Nations 1996

by Hampson, Fen Osler; Molot, Maureen Appel

• ISBN13: 9780886292829
• ISBN10: 0886292824
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Carleton Univ Pr

Summary

Canada is a relatively small player on the world scene, but is still big enough to be heard. The theme of this year's volume of Canada Among Nations is the need for choices in Canadian foreign policy. In an environment of fiscal constraint, the necessity of choice is related to establishing priorities within the multitude of international organizations to which Canada belongs. If we can no longer afford to be a member of a large number of international institutions, which memberships will we uphold and on what grounds will we decide? These questions and others are addressed from a variety of standpoints. As in the past, each article in Canada Among Nations is a free-standing contribution. Contributors have their own distinctive viewpoints and perspectives on where Canada stands in the community of nations and where the country's foreign policy priorities should lie.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(20)
I Being Heard and the Role of Leadership	3	(20)
Fen Osler Hampson
Maureen Appel Molot
The Policy Process	23	(60)
II Redesigning Canadian Diplomacy in an Age of Fiscal Austerity	23	(34)
Evan H. Potter
III Future Defence Policy in an Epoque de vaches maigres	57	(26)
Hal P. Klepak
New Challenges in an Era of Globalization	83	(52)
IV Canada and the Halifax Summit	83	(12)
Gordon S. Smith
V Is There Life After Deathstars? Communications Technology and Cultural Relations	95	(16)
Keith Acheson
Christopher J. Maule
VI Canada and the United States: Still Calm in the "Remarkable Relationship"	111	(24)
Joseph T. Jockel
The UN System: 50th Anniversary Review Reflections: Ambassadors' Round Table	135	(40)
VII Robert R. Fowler	135	(14)
VIII Louise Frechette	149	(14)
IX Geoffrey A.H. Pearson	163	(12)
The UN System	175	(144)
X The Security Council: Trial and Error in Moving to a Post-Westphalian International System	175	(26)
Harald von Riekhoff
XI Canadian Public and Governmental Perceptions of United Nations Reform	201	(20)
Gregory Wirick
XII Rethinking Peacekeeping: The Bosnia and Somalia Experience	221	(30)
David B. Carment
XIII NGOs and the International System: Building Peace in a World at War	251	(22)
Kenneth D. Bush
XIV International Financial Institutions: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?	273	(28)
Roy Culpeper
XV Canada and the OAS: Terra Incognita	301	(18)
John W. Graham
List of Acronyms	319