Recently added articles from International Journal:
What kind of security?
Jul 01, 2007; ... Guest editors' introduction The perception of the Cold War nuclear era in the west was of a clear and present threat from the Soviet Union that had to be matched by the United States and its allies. The Cold War superimposed on the international security agenda a political and conceptual ...
Emancipatory forms of human security and liberal peacebuilding
Jul 01, 2007; ... Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and reconstruction are activities now closely associated with liberal state-building, and in this context human security has become a validating concept of the overall project's goals, even though many international actors working in non-civil-society -oriented areas ...
Normative values and economic deficits in postconflict transformation
Jul 01, 2007; ... When he [Ashdown] carne to Bosnia, he published a manifesto called "For jobs and justice." But there are no jobs and there is no justice. The only thing he is interested in is being able to write a report at the end of his term boasting of all his "reforms."1 It is remarkable how little ...
The UN record on peacekeeping operations
Jul 01, 2007; ... Today, United Nations peacekeeping is the multidimensional management of a complex peace operation, usually following the termination of a civil war, designed to provide interim security and assist parties to make those institutional, material, and ideational transformations that are essential ...
Legal discourses on peacemaking/peacekeeping/peacebuilding
Jul 01, 2007; ... International law as a new topos for human security A CONCEPTUAL TOPOGRAPHY There are multiple ontological explanations for, and technical definitions of, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. However, the post-Cold War explanatory framework, provided by the former UN ...
The European Union
Jul 01, 2007; ... From conflict prevention to "preventive engagement, " still a civilian power lacking a strategic culture One of the difficulties encountered by EU foreign policy can be traced back to the fact that it was defined and implemented in a constantly changing strategic environment. The EU ...
Contextual approaches to human security
Jul 01, 2007; ... Canada and Japan in the Balkans During the last decade, human security has made its way into policy discourses. According to the UNDP's widely acknowledged approach, the term implies, on the one hand, safety from chronic threats such as hunger, disease, and repression and, on the other, ...
NATO's strategic direction after Riga
Jul 01, 2007; ... NATO's post-Cold War adaptation A grand strategy requires a grand vision, and that is what NATO leaders sought to provide in recent years. The core of this effort has been and continues to be to embrace a global perspective and the strategic requirements for change that it ...
A model power for a troubled world?
Jul 01, 2007; ... Canadian national interests and human security in the 21st century Canada greeted the approach of the new millennium with apocryphal visions of global economic breakdown resulting from an electronic glitch-Y2K-and its potential interruption of technologically dependent flows of ideas and ...
Make law not war?
Jul 01, 2007; ... Canada and the challenge of international law in the age of terror "I believe in peacekeeping, not policing!" - or so went "Joe Canadian" - the protagonist in the famous beer advertisement that played across Canadian television screens in April 2000. Presumably, Joe was upset at the ...
The paradox of Afghanistan
Jul 01, 2007; ... Stability operations and the renewal of Canada's international security policy? The Canadian commitment to Afghanistan has singularly focused the attention of policymakers in Ottawa. Canada's contribution was initially limited to a naval interdiction task group that, no matter how ...
Unfulfilled promises
Jul 01, 2007; ... Women and peace in post-Taliban Afghanistan BACKGROUND Following 30 years of protracted conflict, Afghanistan has begun a slow and laborious path to peace, and Canada has been one of its most staunch supporters both in words and deeds. Understanding the root causes of the ...
Divided discipline?
Jul 01, 2007; ... Comparing views of Us and Canadian IR scholars Due to an error, the conclusion of the article "Divided discipline," International Journal 62, no. 2 (spring 2007) was printed incompletely. The following is the conclusion printed in its entirety. We apologize for any ...
Intellectualism in US diplomacy
Jul 01, 2007; ... Paul Wolfowitz and his predecessors When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is ...
Boris Berezovsky
Jul 01, 2007; ... Russia's first billionaire and political maverick still has it in for Vladimir Putin As politicians and dignitaries descended upon Moscow to attend the funeral of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Boris Berezovsky could only pay tribute to his friend from London. "I have lost my ...
A pattern of constraint
Jul 01, 2007; ... Canadian-American relations in the early Cold War The nature of the Canadian-American relationship during the Korean War (1950-53) has been debated for over 30 years. In 1974, political scientist Denis Stairs argued that Canadians pressed for greater UN control over the prosecution of ...
Response/Answer
Jul 01, 2007; ... Re: "Michael Ignatieff: Idealism and the challenge of the lesser evil" by Michael Cotey Morgan Michael Cotey Morgan draws a detailed and impressive portrait of Michael Ignatieff's thinking.1 However, he fails to describe the large divergence between the Liberal MP's theory and his ...
PEACE AT ANY PRICE
Jul 01, 2007; ... PEACE AT ANY PRICE How the World Failed Kosovo Iain King and Whit Mason Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 328pp. US$27.95, cloth (978-0-8014-4539-2). The United Nations interim administration mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) recently entered its ninth and possibly final year as the ...
A QUESTION OF BALANCE
Jul 01, 2007; ... A QUESTION OF BALANCE How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe Michael Creswell Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 238pp. US$49.95 cloth (0674022971). The question of how and when the Cold War started remains hotly contested among historians and political ...
THE LIGHTS THAT FAILED
Jul 01, 2007; ... THE LIGHTS THAT FAILED European International History 1919-1933 Zara Steiner Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv, 938pp. US$60.00 cloth (0199226865). The years from the first to the second world wars have lately been the subject of attempted revisionism in that some historians ...