Why did Canada stay out of the Iraq War in 2003? This decision is not only puzzling considering Canada's recent foreign policy record, but it also confounds the logic of a number of International Relations theories. In this paper, I offer a constructivist explanation of Canada's Iraq decision. In this account, national identity is a function of state-to-society relations, meaning that the dominant discourse at the societal level in a given period will shape foreign policy choices. I argue that the dominant discourse on Canadian identity, as recovered in an analysis of popular texts in Canadian society in 2002-2003, enabled Ottawa's non-participation in the US-led coalition of the willing.
The CDSFAI is an independent research think tank that provides policy analysis in the areas of Canadian foreign policy, defense policy and international aid. [Tom Flanagan] identified five "threat groups" to the oil industry, with First Nations, Métis and mainstream environmentalists lumped in with eco-terrorists and individual saboteurs on the list. Of the complaints listed as activities that threaten oilsands development, litigation, blockades, occupations, and boycotts are among those that could have an effect on the oil industry. [Leonard Peltier] is 64 years old and is the only person serving time for the murders of agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams after a shoot-out during unrest on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1970s. Robert Robideau and Darelle "Dino" Butler were ...
Most of the chapters rely heavily on the analysis of survey research data and, as the book's title indicates, the collective aim of the contributors is to understand both the causes and the variety of anti-Americanisms. The editors explain that the book's goal is to understand the variety of anti-Americanisms "... within an analytical framework that highlights the complexities of Americanism and distinguishes cognitive schema, emotions and norms, [and that] emphasize [s] the multidimensionality and heterogeneity of anti-Americanism".
... a number of elements of Russian Arctic foreign policy that have raised concerns among many expert... relations and foreign policy analysis by T.V. Paul and his coauthors--is a limited milit...
This analysis suggests that traditional approaches to development assistance are too narrowly confined by the logic of social engineering, centered almost exclusively on the material growth factors and depreciative of cultural variables. Reconceptualizing development assistance as an ideational process sheds light on the crucial role of collective intentionality and cultural varieties in determining success or failure of specific aid projects and programs that are designed to produce sustainable change in developing societies. Such reconceptualization calls for greater donor sensitivity to the socio-cultural landscape within developing societies, as well as for a greater recipient voice and responsibility in designing and implementing assistance projects and programs.
JUST as his father's presidency will always be linked in popular memory to the Gulf War, George W. Bush will be known as the president who started America's "war on terror. [Ron Suskind], the American author of the bestselling and highly critical study of Bush's cabinet, The Price of Loyalty, now turns his attention to the individuals managing and carrying out America's fight against Islamic terror. This focus on personalities is also a weakness, in different aspects of Suskind's work. He places much emphasis on the perception of Bush, by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney and former CIA Director George Tenet, among others, as "his father's son," and flirts with the clichéd analysis of Bush enacting foreign policy to avenge his father's besmirched reputation.
Through an analysis of the text in the five documents released in the April 2005 Canadian International Policy Statement (IPS) this article argues that a significant problem in Canadian foreign policy formulation is an obsession with the United States. Just as Frantz Fanon argued that the colonized could never be free until they accepted the influence of the colonizer, this article suggests that the Canadian foreign policy-making establishment and the wider public struggle with hybridity and the importance of the bilateral relationship with the United States. Sustained efforts at differentiating Canada from the United States in the foreign policy field point to an intrinsic problem of identity. Despite the profound importance of the United States to a whole range of Canadian policies, t...
Canadian policy makers have repeatedly emphasized improving relations with Brazil as a strategic objective in the Americas. Given past failures to cooperate, this objective may be difficult to realize. We argue that one of the reasons for this unrealized relationship between Canada and Brazil within hemispheric institutions is different national approaches to the role and purpose of multilateralism. This argument is advanced through an analysis of national interpretations of each country's engagement with multilateralism, drawing on the local literatures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the prospects and limits of future multilateral cooperation between the two countries, drawing on examples from the Inter-American System.
..., this article offers a discourse analysis of Canada's threat perceptions and security rhetor...
At the end of the 20th century, Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools has appeared. Especially after our country's accession to WTO, the development of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools has remarkably developed with a larger size appearance over time. As a result, the educational levels constantly improve and educational models increasingly diversify. However, with the profound development of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools, various new questions emerge. The existing researches have broad discussed and proposed some constructive strategies and suggestions. Thus, those researches concentrate on the existing problems in Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools with specific regional observation and lack of general analysis.
... OUR GOVERNMENT EDUCATION LEGISLATION AND POLICY UNDER THE STRUCTURE OF WTO. Educational developmen...
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