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PO691d/ PO497x    Foreign Policy, Canada, the US and the UN: Multilateral Cooperation in a Single Super-Power World

 

RECOMMENDED READING

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Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

 

 Week 1: Overview

Macmillan, Margaret Olwen. Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2001.

Copp, Terry and Richard Nielsen. No Price Too High: Canadians and the Second World War. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1996.

Granatstein, J. L. and Desmond Morton. A nation forged in fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945. Toronto : Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989.

Walder, David. The Chanak Affair. London: Hutchinson, 1969.

Week 2: Collective Security

Malone: Chapters Chapter 1 – pages 3-17, 16, 13, 17

Boutros-Gali, Boutros. An Agenda for Peace: Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping. Report of the Secretary –General pursuant to the statement adopted by the Summit Meeting of the Security Council on 31 January 1992. (June 1992). http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/agpeace.html

Supplement to An Agenda for Peace (A/50/60S/1995/1) (3 January 1995). http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/agsupp.html

Eban, Abba. “The UN Idea Revisited. Foreign Affairs 74 (Sep/Oct 1995) 39-55.

Schlesinger, Stephen C. Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2003. Chapters: 4, 6, 10.

The UN in Brief link:http://www.un.org/Overview/brief.html

“What is the International Community?” Foreign Policy, 132 (Sep/Oct 2002) 28-46, see especially sections by Kofi Annan, “Problems without passports” and former US Ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick “the shackles of consensus”

Roche, Senator Douglas. An Unequivocal Landmark: The 2000 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.” April 24 - May 20, 2000.  Project Ploughshares Working Paper 00-2.

Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Resolution 1514 http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/c_coloni.htm

Bennett, A. LeRoy. International Organizations: Principles & Issues, 5th Edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Fasulo, Linda M. An Insider’s Guide to the UN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: the world from the twenties to the eighties. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Malone, David M. “The UN Security Council in the Post-Cold War World: 1987-97.” Security Dialogue 28(4) (December 1997).

McHenry, Donald F. Africa and the UN: The United Nations and Decolonization.” Africa Report, (September-October 1985) 4-10.

Simons, Geoff.  The UN: a Chronology of Conflict. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

1995 Review and Extension to the treaty:

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

Collective Defense

Malone: Chapters 2, 10

The NATO handbook: The Origins of the Alliance

The NATO handbook: Fundamental Security Tasks (NATO's purpose and mission)

NORAD Canadian Department of National Defence Background Information

Presentation by Paul Heinbecker to Special Committee on National Defence and Veteran’s Affairs on National Missile Defence:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfocomDoc/bak/36/2/NDVA/Meetings/Evidence/ndvaev23-e.htm

Reghehr, Ernie. BMD, NORAD, and Canada-US Security Relations: Project Ploughshares Briefing. Waterloo, ON: Project Ploughshares, March 2004.

http://www.ploughshares.ca/CONTENT/BRIEFINGS/brf044.pdf

James Fergusson – Moderator. “Round Table: Missile Defence in a Post-September 11th Context”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 9, Number 2.  Winter 2002.

Haynal, George.  "Interdependence, globalization and North American borders" Policy Options. September 2002.

http://www.irpp.org.po/archive/sep02/haynal.pdf

Graham, Thomas. “Strengthening Arms Control”. The Washington Quarterly. Spring 2000 (Volume 23, Number 2). pgs 183-196.

http://www.twq.com/spring00/232graham.pdf

Jockel, Joseph T. No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States, and the Origins of North American Air Defence, 1945-1958.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.

 

 

 

 

Week 3

 

US Foreign Policy

 

Gaddis, John Lewis. “Kill The Empire! (or Not).” New York Times (July 25, 2004) 23.

 MacMillan, Margaret.  Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World.  New York: Random House, 2002.  Appendix: Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, p. 495, League of Nations pp.83-97.

 Kagan, Robert. “Power and Weakness.” Policy Review No. 113 http://www.policyreview.org/JUN02/kagan.html

 Kagan, Robert. “Renewing US Legitimacy.” Foreign Affairs (Mar/Apr 2004).

 Luck, Edward C. “A Special Nation, Peerless and Indispensable.” In Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization 1919-1999.  Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

 Mead, Walter Russel.  Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

 Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman, eds. “Multilateralism and Its Discontents: The Causes and Consequences of US Ambivalence.” In Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 Prestowitz, Clyde. “The Unacknowledged Empire.” In Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

 Rice, Condoleezza. “Promoting the National Interest,” Foreign Affairs, vol.79, no.1 (January/February 2000) 45-62.

 Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983.

 Chace, James and Caleb Carr. America Invulnerable: the Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

 Fareed Zakaria, “Annals of Foreign Policy: Our Way – The Trouble with Being the World’s Only Superpower.”  The New Yorker (14 & 21 October 2002) 72-81.

 Kennan, Geroge F. “On American Principles.” Foreign Affairs (March/April1995).

 Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin. Boston: Little Brown 1961.

 Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Lind, Michael.Their Country ‘Tis of Them.”  New York Times Book Review (July 7, 2002).

 Luck, Edward. “The United States, International Organizations, and the Quest for Legitimacy.” In Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman eds. Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Reimner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

 Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. The Cycles of American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

 Talbott, Strobe. Deadly Gambits: the Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control. New York: Knopf, 1984.

 Wallace, William. “US Unilateralism: A European Perspective.” In Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman eds. Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Reimner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 

 

 

Week 4

 

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)  

 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

 

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

 

 

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

 

 

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman & degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)

 

 

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

 

 

Resolution 1265

 

Franck, Thomas and Stephen Yuhan. “The United States and the International Criminal Court: Unilateralism Rampant.” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics vol. 35 (2003).

 

Humphrey, John P. Human rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1984.

 

Kwong-Leung, Tang and Jacqueline Tak-York Cheung. “Guaranteeing Women’s Rights: The UN Women’s Convention.”  International Social Work v. 43, no. 1 (January 2000) p. 7-20.

 

Malanczuk, Peter. “The International Criminal Court and Landmines: What are the Consequences of Leaving the US Behind?” European Journal of International Law, (2000).

 

Steel, Ronald. “Fight Fire with Fire.” New York Times Review (July 20, 2004) 13. (review of Michael Ignatieff’s “The Lesser Evil”)

 

“For Us or Against Us?; The International Criminal Court.”  The Economist. Nov. 22, 2003 vol. 369, Iss. 8391, p.29.

 

Robinson, Darryl and Valerie Oosterveld. “The Evolution of International Humanitarian Law.” In McRae, Rob and Don Hubert., eds. Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, pp. 161-169.

 

Amnesty International. “International Criminal Court: The Unlawful Attempt by the Security Council to Give US citizens Permanent Impunity from International Justice. (May 2003) AI Index: IOR 40/006/2003 Distr: SC/CO/PG/PO

 

Brown, Bartram S. “Unilateralism, Multilateralism and the International Criminal Court.” In Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman eds. Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Reimner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 

Hobbins, A.J. “Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey and Canadian Opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: looking back on the 50th anniversary of the UNDHR.”  International Journal (Spring 1998).

 

Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

 

Ignatieff, Michael. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Toronto: Penguin Press, 2004.

 

Merali, Isfahan and Valerie Oosterveld. Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

 

Moravcsik, Andrew. “Why is U.S. Human Rights Policy So Unilateralist?” In Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman eds. Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Reimner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 

 

 

Week 5:

 

Malone, Chapters 7, 15, 20, 30-35.

 

Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (The Carlsson Report). December 15, 1999. Conclusions (pgs. 19-35)

 

Axworthy, Lloyd. “Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First”. Global Governance, 7, 1, (January 2001). 

 

 

Axworthy, Lloyd. “Introduction”. Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.  Rob McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. pg. 3

 

Small, Michael. “Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies”.  Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.  Rob McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Chapter 3 (pgs. 75-87).

 

Lee, David. “Case Study: Haiti”. Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.  Rob McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. pgs. 96-103.

 

Fowler, Robert and David Angel. “Case Study: Angola Sanctions”.  Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.  Rob McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Chapter 6 (pgs 190-199).

 

Goldberg, Elissa and Don Hubert. “Case Study: The Security Council and the Protection of Civilians”.  Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.  Rob McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. pgs. 223-230.

 

Brahimi Report:

http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/

 

Appathurai, James and Ralph Lyshysyn. “Lessons Learned From the Zaire Mission”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 1998).

 

Smith, Michael. “Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of Ethical Issues”. Ethics and International Affairs. Volume 12, 1998. pgs 63-79. (Focuses on American reluctance to intervene after Somalia)

 

Feinstein, Lee and Anne-Marie Slaughter. “A Duty to Prevent”. Foreign Affairs.  January/February 2004.

 

Malone, David. Decision-making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti, 1990-1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

 

Axworthy, Lloyd. “Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First”. Global Governance, 7, 1, (January 2001).

 

Government of Canada. Human Security: Safety for People in a Changing World. Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services Canada, April 1999.

 

Hubert, Don. The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy.  Occasional Papers of the Watson Institute, #42.   Providence, RI: The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, 2000.

 

United Nations Development Report on Human Security (Mahbub ul Haq Report): http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/1994/en/default.cfm

 

Jockel, Joe and Joel Sokolsky. “Lloyd Axworthy’s Legacy: Human Security and the Rescue of Canadian  Defence Policy”. International Journal, 56, 1 (Winter 2000-2001). 1-18 (CIGI library)

 

Lee, Steve. “The Axworthy Years: Humanist Activism and Public Diplomacy”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2000).

 

Thakur, Ramesh.  “The UN and Human Security”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 1999).

 

Heinbecker, Paul. “Human Security”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 1999). pgs 19-25.

 

 

Ouellet, André. “Towards a UN Rapid Reaction Capability”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 1995). 

 

Coulon, Jocelyn. Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping, and the New World Order.  University of Toronto Press, 1998. Part 1 (Chapters 1 and 2).

 

Fergusson, James and Barbara Levesque.  “The best laid plans: Canada's proposal for a United Nations rapid reaction capability.” International Journal. Volume 52 No. 1  Winter 1996-7. pgs. 118-142.

 

Dallaire, Roméo. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.  Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003.

 

 

Off, Carol. The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2001.

 

 

Robinson, Paul. “Ready to Kill But Not to Die: NATO Strategy in Kosovo”. International Journal. Volume 54, Number 4 (Fall 1999). pgs. 671-682.

 

Heinbecker, Paul. “Global Reach: Influencing the World in Different Ways”.  Address Given by Paul Heinbecker, ADM, Global and Security Policy, Foreign Affairs and International Trade.  CIIA Conference in Ottawa, October 17, 1998.

 

Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development. “Human Security and Soft Power: Input From the National Forums”. Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 6, Number 2 (Winter 1999).

 

Government of Canada.  Canada’s Human Security Network. http://www.humansecurity.gc.ca/menu-en.asp

 

Hampson, Fen Osler and Dean F. Oliver. “Pulpit Democracy: A Critical Assessment of the Axworthy Doctrine”. International Journal 54, 3, (1998). 379-406.

 

Holbrooke, Richard C. To End a War. New York: Random House, 1998.

 

Clark, Wesley K, Gen. (Ret). Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6:

 

 

Morrison, J. Stephen and Todd Summers. “United to Fight HIV/AIDS?” The Washington Quarterly. Autumn 2003. pgs 177-193.

 

Smith, Peter J. and Elizabeth Smythe. “Globalization, Citizenship and Technology: The MAI Meets the Internet”.  Canadian Foreign Policy. Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 1999).

 

 

Cameron, M.A. et al. To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1998. Chapter 1.

 

Gautam, Madhur. Debt Relief for the Poorest: An OED Review of the HIPC Initiative. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003.

Further Readings:

 

Laurence Baxter and Jo-Ann Bishop. “Uncharted Ground: Canada, Middle Power Leadership and Public Diplomacy”. Journal of Public and International Affairs.  Volume 9, Spring 1998.

http://www.princeton.edu/~jpia/pdf1998/Vol9_Spring98_5.pdf

 

Roberts, Shawn and Jody Williams. After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines. Washington, D.C.: Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 1995.

 

 

Keet, Dot. “The International Anti-Debt Campaign: A Southern Activist View for Activists in ‘the North...and ‘the South’”. Development in Practice 10, No. 3/4 (August 2000), 461-478.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 7

 

Canada U.S. Free Trade Agreement

  

 

North American Free Trade Agreement

 

 

Free Trade Area of the Americas

 

 

World Trade Organization

 

Kelleher, James F. How to Secure and Enhance Canadian Access to Export Markets. External Affairs Canada, 1984.

 

Tussie, Diana, and Amrita Narlikar. "Bargaining together in Cancún: Developing countries and their evolving coalitions," November 2003, Working paper LATN #18. http://www.flacso.org.ar/piei/dianatussie/docs/G20.pdf

 

 

Bergsten, C. Fred. “Fifty Years of GATT/WTO: Lessons from the Past for Strategies for the Future.” Working Paper 98-3, Institute for International Economics (April 1998).

 

Bhagwati, Jagdish, N.  “After Seattle: Free Trade and the WTO.” International Affairs, v.77, no. 1 (January 2001) p.15-29.

 

Fischer, Stanley. “In Defense of the IMF: Specialized Tools for A Specialized Task.” Foreign Affairs 77 (Jul/Aug 1998), pp.103-106.

 

Narlikar, Amrita. “The World Trade Organization: A Case for G20 Action on Institutional Reform.” CIGI Working Papers, June 2004.

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/g20.oxford.narlikar.pdf

 

Sachs, Jeffery D. “Urgent: How to Run the International Monetary Fund.” Foreign Policy no. 143 (July/August 2004) p. 60-4.

 

World Trade Organization. “What is the WTO?”

 

World Trade Organization. “Understanding the WTO” http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/utw_chap1_e.pdf

 

 

Bergsten, C. Fred. “A Competitive Approach to Free Trade.” Institute for International Economics (December 2002).

 

Buira, Ariel. Changes to the World Bank and IMF.  London: Anthem Press, 2003.

 

Kelleher, James F. How to Secure and Enhance Canadian Access to Export Markets. External Affairs Canada, 1984.

 

Schott, Jeffrey J. “Unlocking the Benefits of World Trade.” Special Report in The Economist, US edition. (Nov. 1, 2003).

www.iie.com/publications/papers/schoot1103.htm

 

Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 8

 

International Joint Commission

 

 

Canada-US Air Quality Agreement

 

 

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987) (Ozone

Treaty)

 

 

Kyoto Protocol

 

 

Browne, John. “Beyond Kyoto.”  Foreign Affairs, 82 (4), July/August 2004.

 

Schwartz, Alan, M. “The Canada-US Environmental Relationship at the Turn of the Century.” American Review of Canadian Studies, 30(2) (Summer 2000) pp.207-226.

 

Jacobson, Harold K. “Climate Change: Unilateralism, Realism, and Two-Level Games.” In Patrick, Stewart & Shepard Forman eds. Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Bolder Colo.: Lynne Reimner Publishers Inc., 2002.

 

Lisowski, Michael. “Playing the Two-Level Game: US President Bush’s Decision to Repudiate the Kyoto Protocol.” Environmental Politics, 2002

 

Van Kooten, G. Cornelis. “Smoke and Mirrors: The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond.” Canadian Public Policy, 29(4), (December 2003), pp. 397-415.

 

Broadhead, Lee-anne. “Canada as a Rogue State: It's Shameful Performance on Climate Change.” International Journal, Summer 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 9:

 

Terrorism

 

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: 9/11

Commission Report. (US Government, August 2004).

 
 

 

 

“For Whom the Bell Tolls: Civil Liberties.” The Economist, August 31 2002.

 

“Security Council Contribution to the fight against terrorism: The Counter Terrorism Committee.” pamphlet produced by the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1033555909926

 

Roth, Kenneth. “The Fight against Terrorism: the Bush Administration’s dangerous Neglect of Human Rights.” In Weiss, Thomas Ed., Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2004 pp.113-128.

 

Roth, Kenneth. “Misplaced priorities.” Harvard International Review Fall 2002.

 

Stuart, Don. “The Dangers of Quick Fix Legislation in the Criminal Law: The Anti-terrorism Bill C-36 Should be Withdrawn.” In The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada’s Anti-terrorism Bill. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2001.

 

“Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to US Law and Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights & Civil Liberties (September 2002 to March 2003).” Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, March 11/03

Link

 

Stairs, Denis. “9/11 'Terrorism,' 'Root Causes' and All That: Policy Implications of the Socio-Cultural Argument.” Policy Options, September 2002, pp.6-11.

 

Jervis, Robert. “An Interim Assessment of September 11: What Has Changed and What Has Not? ”   Political Science Quarterly, v. 11, no. 1 (Spring 2002) pp. 37 - 54.



Report of the Secretary General’s Policy Working Group on Terrorism, A/57/273, S/2002/875, Annex.

http://www.un.org/terrorism/a57273.htm

 

The Wilson Quarterly. “Drawing a Bead on Terrorism: a Survey of Recent Articles.”  The Wilson Quarterly, v. 26, no. 3 (Summer 2002) pp. 83-4.

 

Rubin, Barry. “Lessons From Iran”. Washington Quarterly. Summer 2003.  pgs 105-115.

 

Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004. Recommended: first and last chapters

 

 

Clinton, Bill. My Life. New York : Knopf, 2004. Oslo Agreement: pgs 541-5 and Clinton's last peace efforts: pgs 943-947

 

Kinzer, Stephen. “All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror”. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

 

Friedman, Thomas L. “From Beirut to Jerusalem”. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.

 

Said, Edward W. “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

 

 

Laqueur, Walter. Israel Arab Reader 6th Revised And Updated Edition: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. New York: Penguin USA, 2001.

 

Suskind, Ron. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

 

Woodward, Bob. Plan of Attack. Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

 

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission full Report):

http://911commission.gov

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10:

 

 

Malone: Chapter 12

 

Urqhart, Brian. “Disarming Iraq: A Review of Hans Blix”. New York Review of Books.  March 25, 2004.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17005

 

 

Lewis, Bernard. “What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East”. New York: Perennial, 2003.

 

Nye, Joseph Jr. “U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq”. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2003 (Volume 82, Number 4).

 

 

Clark, Wesley K, Gen. (Ret.). Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

 

US Senate Intelligence Committee Report on pre-war Iraqi Intelligence

 

 

Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction (The Butler Report, UK Government)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 11:

 

Malone: Chapters 23, 24

 

Carin, Barry. “Report Session 1: If You Build It, They Will Come.” In The G-20 at Leader’s Level? CIGI Conference Papers (February 29, 2004)

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/ottawa.report.pdf

 

Heinbecker, Paul. “Report Session 2: How Do We Get There From Here.” In The G-20 at Leader’s Level? CIGI Conference Papers (February 29, 2004)

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/ottawa.report.pdf

 

High Level Panel - General information about panel members, function, press release on creation etc.

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sga857.doc.htm

 

Jonas, George. “The UN is a Post-War Project that Must Go.” National Post, April 16, 2003.

 

Slaughter, Anne Marie. Government Networks, World Order and the G20. CIGI Conference Papers (February 29, 2004).

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/g20.ottawa.slaughter.pdf

 

Weiss, Thomas.The Illusion of Security Council Reform.” The Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2003).

 

The United Nations Charter

 

 

High Level Panel Terms of Reference

 

 

Berween, Mohmaed.Democratization of the UN: Isn’t It Time for Structural Reform at the United Nations?” Review of International Affairs, 2002 (winter).

 

Carin, Barry and Gordon Smith. Making Change Happen at a Global Level. CIGI Conference Papers (February 29, 2004).

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/g20.ottawa.smith_carin.pdf

 

Kirton, John. Towards Multilateral Reform: The G20’s Contribution. CIGI Conference Papers (May 19, 2004).

http://www.cigionline.ca/v.2/conf_docs/argentina.kirton.pdf

 

Zacher, Mark W. “The Conundrums of International Power Sharing: The Politics of Security Council Reform.” In The United Nations and Global Security. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. pp.211-223.

 

 

 

 

Week 12

 

Cohen, Andrew. While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.

 

Axworthy, Lloyd. “Navigating A New World: Canada’s Global Future”. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2003.

 

Brian Mulroney. “Notes for an address by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on the occasion of the Centennial Anniversary Convocation, Stanford University, California, U.S.A., September 29, 1991”. Ottawa:  Prime Minister’s Office, 1991.

 

Ignatieff, Michael. “Peace, Order and Good Government: A Foreign Policy Agenda for Canada”. Lessons of History: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919.  Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/departments/skelton/peace_order-en.asp

 

 

Cooper, Andrew. Niche Diplomacy: Middle Powers in the Post-Cold War Era. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1997.

 

 

Canadian Council for International Co-operation. "Canada in the World: A Review and Analysis of the Government's Foreign Policy Statements.” Ottawa: Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 1995.

 

Tucker, Michael. Canadian Foreign Policy: Contemporary Issues and Themes. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980.  Chapter 1, 1-26. (Trudeau era foreign policy)

 

Cooper, Andrew. Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits and New Directions. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada, 1997.  Chapter 1.

 

 

English, John and Norman Hillmer. Eds. Making a Difference? Canada’s Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order. Toronto: Lester, 1992.

 

Keating, Tom. Canada and World Order: The Multilateralist Tradition in Canadian Foreign Policy. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. Introduction, 1-17.

 

Nossal, Richard Kim, Andrew Cooper and Richard Higgott. “Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order”. Crosscurrents: International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era. Third Edition. Mark Chalton, ed. Scarborough, ON: Nelson, 2002.  117-133.

 

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