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Towards A Francophone Community - Canada''S Relations With France And French Africa, 1945-1968

by Robin S. Gendron

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Examines relations between Canada and French Africa from 1945 to 1968 within the context of Canada's deteriorating relations with France and Quebec's aggressive pursuit of its own international interests in the 1960s. This book shows that there had been active federal interest in French African affairs since the late 1940s.
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Security And Defence In The Terrorist Era

by Elinor C. Sloan

75,51€ + 10% CARD

 National security is one of the most contentious topics in public policy and politics and one of the most important for the twenty-first century. Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, security and defence have undergone such unprecedented overhauls that even recently implemented policies require reexamination. In this second edition of Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era, Elinor Sloan provides a significantly revised and updated analysis of developments in Canadian and American security and defence policy and notes where there are weaknesses that call for improvement. The author argues that since the Second World War Canada has assumed that potential threats will come from overseas rather than from within its borders. Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era shows that Canada's safety depends upon paying equal attention to threats at home and insists that we must consider the effect of climate change on the Arctic as seriously as terrorist threats and ballistic missile defence.
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Inauspicious Beginnings - Principal Powers And International Security Institutions After The Cold War, 1989-1999

by Jacques Lévesque e Onnig Beylerian

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 Shows that at the end of the Cold War experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending conflicts.
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Revolution In Military Affairs

by Elinor C. Sloan

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 Although the RMA has been the subject of much discussion in the United States for over a decade, it has not received the same level of analytic attention in Canada and other NATO and allied countries. Sloan examines the RMA in the context of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in addition to assessing the transformation efforts of the United States Military. She concludes that small and medium military powers such as Canada must, at a minimum, take selected, concrete measures to maximize their military capabilities through the RMA if they are to avoid operational and political marginalisation in the promotion of international peace and security.
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Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev'S Soviet Union

by Jamie Glazov

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five years later. Glazov shows that the strategy of accommodation, the main difference between Canadian and American Soviet policy, was ultimately vindicated by the eventual ascendancy of a liberal Soviet leader (Gorbachev), which led to increased East-West contact and Soviet liberalization, phenomena that led directly to the West''s victory in the Cold War. Glazov''s new assessment of Western policies toward Khrushchev''s Russia is critical to our understanding of present-day Russia, since Gorbachev''s democratization, which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, had its origins in the Khrushchev thaw. Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev''s Soviet Union provides vital information to help answer the question of how the West should deal with Russia, especially in the context of globalization - one of the most urgent issues facing Canada and the Western world.
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From Peacekeeping To Peacemaking - Canada''S Response To The Yugoslav Crisis

by Nicholas Gammer

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Given the support of the Mulroney government, many of the Canadian units under the United Nations in Yugoslavia were willing to bend the United Nations' rules of engagement when confronting Muslim, Serb, and Croat forces, establishing Srebrenica as a Muslim safe haven and defending it against Serb attacks. The Chretien government, however, assumed a more cautious policy. Gammer shows how understanding the government's role in this particular crisis contributes to our understanding of the role that political leadership plays in shaping Canadian foreign policy in general, as well as advancing our knowledge of the broader theoretical debates surrounding the legitimacy and effectiveness of humanitarian intervention in the internal affairs of state.
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Power Versus Prudence - Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons

by Paul

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 In Power versus Prudence Paul develops a prudential-realist model, arguing that a nation's national nuclear choices depend on specific regional security contexts: the non-great power states most likely to forgo nuclear weapons are those in zones of low and moderate conflict, while nations likely to acquire such capability tend to be in zones of high conflict and engaged in protracted conflicts and enduring rivalries. He demonstrates that the choice to forbear acquiring nuclear weapons is also a function of the extent of security interdependence that states experience with other states, both allies and adversaries. He applies the comparative case study method to pairs of states with similar characteristics - Germany/Japan, Canada/Australia, Sweden/Switzerland, Argentina/Brazil - in addition to analysing the nuclear choices of South Africa, Ukraine, South Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel. Paul concludes by questioning some of the prevailing supply side approaches to non-proliferation, offering an explication of the security variable by linking nuclear proliferation with protracted conflicts and enduring rivalries. Power versus Prudence will be of interest to students of international relations, policy-makers, policy analysts, and the informed public concerned with the questions of nuclear weapons, non-proliferation, and disarmament.
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Canada, Latin America, And The New Internationalism - A Foreign Policy Analysis, 1968-199

by Brian J.R. Stevenson

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 In Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism Brian Stevenson argues that Canada's foreign policy toward Latin America has been profoundly affected by these three factors and has evolved in response to both changing domestic demands and shifting international circumstances. By analysing a pivotal period in Canada-Latin American relations, he shows us how successive Canadian governments made important initiatives toward closer relationships with Latin America and were also pressured by non-governmental organizations to play a bigger role in the region. Canada's increased role can be seen in official foreign policy commitments, such as the decision to join the Organization of American States, and in policy decisions on political refugees. He explains that while the United States has played a key role in sometimes constraining Canadian foreign policy in the region, it is important to realize that Canadian foreign policy has been steadied by a long-standing tradition of internationalism. Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism demonstrates that the tradition of internationalism in Canadian foreign policy as viewed from the perspective of foreign policy analysis provides the framework within which to understand and accommodate changes in its policy toward Latin America. The period which the book explores is critical in order to understand the contemporary nature and future direction of Canada-Latin America relations.
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Future Of Nato - Enlargement, Russia, And European Security

by Charles-Philippe David e Jacques Lévesque

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 The Future of NATO looks at the conceptual and theoretical approaches that underlie the question of enlarging NATO's membership and the consequences of enlargement on international relations. It examines the policies of some of NATO's leading member states - including Canada, which has recently begun a two-year term on the security council - and deals with the issue of enlargement from the point of view of the East European candidates, focusing on Russia and its opposition to the current process. Contributors include Andras Balogh (Loran Eotvos University), Martin Bourgeois, Charles-Philippe David (UQAM), Andre P. Donneur (UQAM), David G. Haglund (Queen's), Philippe Hebert (Montreal), Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (Glendon College), Richard L. Kugler (RAND, National Defence University), David Law (Queen's), Paul Letourneau (Montreal), Jacques Levesque (UQAM), Gale Mattox (U.S. Naval Academy), Marie-Claude Plantin (Lumiere Lyon 2), Sergei Plekhanov (York), Jane M.O. Sharp (Kings College, London).
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Towards A Francophone Community - Canada''S Relations With France And French Africa, 1945-1968

by Robin S. Gendron

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 Examines relations between Canada and French Africa from 1945 to 1968 within the context of Canada's deteriorating relations with France and Quebec's aggressive pursuit of its own international interests in the 1960s. This book shows that there had been active federal interest in French African affairs since the late 1940s.
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Arctic Discoveries - Images From Voyages Of Four Decades In The North

by John Bockstoce

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 The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the extreme heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold and deep blue nights of winter, its great organic oneness has been admired and celebrated, as humans have sought to share an existence with, and to exert their influence on, its lands and seas.
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Against Judicial Activism - The Decline Of Freedom And Democracy In Canada

by Rory Leishman

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 The Charter and expansive versions of the federal and provincial human rights codes were supposed to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. This book describes how the courts have subverted the judicial process in the name of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-1957 - Community Or Alliance?

by John C. Milloy

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 Details how NATO's leadership failed to develop the organization's non-military potential
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Security And Defence In The Terrorist Era

by Elinor C. Sloan

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 Looks at the nature of the post-9/11 threat environment, US security and defence policy since the Cold War ended, intelligence gathering, and changes in military personnel and equipment requirements for addressing threats overseas.
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A Portrait Of The Artist As Australian - L'Oeuvre Bizarre De Barry Humphries

by Paul Matthew St Pierre

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 Offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career
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Leadership And Responsibility In The Second World War

by Brian Farrell

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 Examines of how well political, diplomatic, and military leaders, particularly in Great Britain, handled the daunting challenge of a worldwide conflagration
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Reigns Of Terror

by Patricia Marchak

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 Examining the conditions that underlie state-sponsored crimes against humanity, this title seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that the world community could take preventive action in similar situations elsewhere.
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Visions Of Canada - The Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures, 1958 - 1992

by Bernard Ostry e Janice Yalden

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 The Plaunt lectures present a retrospective of persistent themes in public discourse in Canada, treating subjects that are in the forefront of the intellectual and public life. This title features public intellectuals providing their vision of Canada from the perspectives of the arts, sciences, economics, politics, and foreign relations.
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At The Global Crossroads - The Sylvia Ostry Foundation Lectures

by Sylvia Ostry

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 Valuable and significant perspectives on the many issues of a globalized world economy from the key players.
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The Journals Of Yaakov Zipper, 1950-1982 - The Struggle For Yiddishkeit

by Yaakov Zipper

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 Provides a first-hand account of the Yiddish speaking immigrants who gave Montreal its unique vibrancy
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Inauspicious Beginnings - Principal Powers And International Security Institutions After The Cold War, 1989-1999

by Jacques Lévesque e Onnig Beylerian

132,61€

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 Shows that at the end of the Cold War experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending conflicts.
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The Revolution In Military Affairs

by Elinor C. Sloan

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 This volume details the RMA, the principle guiding philosophy governing modern military doctrines, and, in particular, what they mean for smaller NATO allies.
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Margaret Addison - A Biography

by Jean O'Grady

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 A biography of one of the key figures in the history of the higher education of women in Canada. The author captures the flavour of life in Annesley Hall under Addison's regime and uncovers part of the buried mosaic of the lives of Canadian women.
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From Peacekeeping To Peacemaking - Canada'S Response To The Yugoslav Crisis

by Nicholas Gammer

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 The shift in Canada's foreign policy regarding humanitarian intervention is examined in relation to the Yugoslavian civil war. The author shows how understanding the government's role in this particular crisis contributes to our understanding of the role that political leadership plays in shaping Canadian foreign policy in general.
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