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Turkish-American Relations in the Context of Multilateral Competition in the Caspian Region International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Zhaksygul Akimova, Zhenis Kydyrov, Panu Kilybayeva, Aigerim Ospanova
This article examines the prospects for increased Turkish-American relations in the Caspian region, namely, joint areas of activity for the development and consolidation of cooperation between both states. Utilizing a historical-comparative method, we comprehensively study Turkish-American relations in this region from a historical viewpoint and predict the further development of this cooperation in
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Moving from gender responsive to gender transformative action: What Canada achieved and missed in its Rohingya response strategy in Bangladesh International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Deeplina Banerjee
Since 2018, Canada, through its Rohingya Response Strategy in Bangladesh, has been providing targeted assistance to the impoverished Bengali host communities and Rohingya refugees living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Under Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), gender equality and gender-responsive humanitarian action constitute some of the core priority areas for the Canadian government
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Book Review: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jeffrey Rice
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Book Review: Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, and Carlos Ominami International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Varun Sahni
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The “secret war”: Silence, testimony, and wartime sexual violence International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Erin Baines, Ketty Anyeko
Breaking the silence around wartime sexual violence is often understood as paramount to ending it. Many survivors feel compelled to publicly testify to prevent future harms, contest denial, and hol...
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Occupied by non-violence: Exploring male Palestinian resistance activists’ use of strategic silences in (re)narrating the Palestinian struggle International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Emma Swan
Liberal peacebuilding has had its fair share of critiques. Along with highlighting its neo-liberal and Western-centric foundations, scholars have also drawn attention to its disregard for Indigenou...
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Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What’s in a buzzword? International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Maïka Sondarjee, Nathan Andrews
Over the past decade, there has been a new “decolonial turn,” albeit less related than before to land and political independence. “To decolonize” is now associated with something less tangible and ...
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Gorgeous but dangerous: Comparing Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town’s soft-power struggles International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Janis van der Westhuizen
How do deeply unequal cities in the Global South project soft power, and what are the tensions and contradictions that emerge when they do? Cities’ strategies to enhance their international appeal ...
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“Wot ‘Bout Me?”: Punk, Africa, and theorizing International Relations International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Kevin C Dunn
This essay offers a narrative history, though certainly not definitive, of punk in South Africa. Rather than an ethnographic study or a history of popular culture, the essay places this narrative f...
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Towards a transformative vision for gender and Canadian international policy: The role and impact of ‘feminist inside activists’ International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Rebecca Tiessen, Nnenna Okoli
In this paper, we consider the role of “feminist inside activists” in shaping the Canadian international policy landscape and provide examples of how government employees have actively promoted fem...
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Drowning man catching a straw: An explanation of Turkey’s history of rapprochements with Russia International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Muhammet Koçak
In the mid-2010s Turkey-Russia relations gained a strategic dimension after the two nations began to work together in Syria and took bold steps to cooperate on defence and nuclear energy. This deve...
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Sports mega-events and changing world order International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 David R. Black
Processes of making, sustaining, reforming, and un-making world orders are constants in global politics and development. Understood in the neo-Gramscian tradition pioneered by Robert Cox, ideas, in...
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Regionalism beyond state-centrism: African regionalism in comparative perspective International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 J. Andrew Grant, Abdiasis Issa, Fredrik Söderbaum, Badriyya Yusuf
Over the past few decades, regions and regional institutions have gained increased attention in both scholarly literature and policy debates. A fundamental weakness in both debates, however, is the...
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Theory, change and the search for epistemological courage in shaping a new world order International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Larry A Swatuk
No matter how narrowly you focus your spatial or temporal lenses, you are bound to catch sight of multiple significant challenges to human community. Many of these challenges are shared, such as Co...
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Towards Praxes of the Region: Agential Constructivist Approaches to Regionalisms International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 J. Andrew Grant
While both formal and informal regionalisms examine the political ramifications of economic flows of capital, goods, and people, there is a blurring of such conceptual dichotomies in practice. Henc...
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Global governance in the Anthropocenes International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Lucian M. Ashworth
This article adumbrates how we can re-envision global governance in the Anthropocene. The first section explores the plurality of Anthropocenes through an initial analysis of the Great Transformati...
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The interregnum: Governance in the new world disorder International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 W Andy Knight
There is a crisis of global governance at this moment in our history -- a moment being labeled as 'the interregnum -- a moment of transition from one world order to another. The turbulence and dise...
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Gender and Regionalization in North America: From NAFTA to CUSMA and Beyond? International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Laura Macdonald
The literature on world regions is largely gender-blind. This article suggests ways in which the study of regionalism can incorporate gender analysis, based on the case of North America. It argues ...
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Much ado about very little: Canada’s national interests in history and practice International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Adam Chapnick
Ever since Canada failed to be elected to the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member in June 2020, there have been calls for Ottawa to realign Canadian foreign policy with the na...
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Preparing for the United Nations Security Council: Canadian approaches to policy development International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Joe Landry, James Floch, Marissa Fortune, Emma Richardson
In the run up to Canada’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Global Affairs Canada undertook thorough policy preparations to prepare for a potential term. Notwithstanding...
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The impact of economic diplomacy on exports: The Portuguese case International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ana Fernandes, Rosa Forte
It is widely recognized that exports contribute to economic growth. Many governments have seen economic diplomacy representation (foreign offices, embassies and consulates) as an important tool to ...
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A virus unites the world while national border closures divide it: Epidemiologic, legal, and political analysis on border closures during COVID-19 International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Steven J. Hoffman, Isaac Weldon, Roojin Habibi
This article critically examines the use of national border closures at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. After explaining why targeted border closures generally do not work and how they violate...
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False negotiations and the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 S Yaqub Ibrahimi
This paper examines the dark side of Afghanistan’s peace negotiations that started under Donald Trump’s South Asia policy in Doha, Qatar, in September 2018 and ended, without a meaningful success, ...
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From physical to virtual to digital: The Synthetic Environment and its impact on Canadian defence policy International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Kevin Budning, Alex Wilner, Guillaume Cote
The Synthetic Environment (SE) takes the power of computing, digital processing, artificial intelligence, extended reality technology, and other advancements borrowed from the gaming industry to cr...
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Beyond the “weakness of the state”: Canada’s intervention in post-agreement Colombia International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Marc-André Anzueto, Etienne Roy Grégoire, Philippe Dufort
During the 2021 mass protests in Colombia, and while international calls for the Colombian government to respect human rights were intensifying, Canada’s position remained somewhat ambiguous. Part ...
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Healing dialogue: Can the techniques and practices of Track Two diplomacy play a role in resolving public health conflicts? International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Aleem Bharwani, Julia Palmiano Federer, Jack Latour
Track Two Diplomacy, a form of facilitated informal and unofficial dialogues between conflicting parties, has become a well-established form of international conflict resolution. This paper seeks t...
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Quest for regional power status: Explaining Turkey’s assertive foreign policy International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Muhammet Koçak, Musa Akgül
This article explains Turkey’s hard power usage in Syria, Azerbaijan, and Libya. We argue that gaining a respected status forms the basis of Turkish foreign policy and the main cause of Turkey’s ha...
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Enhancing the Green Climate Fund operations through a climate justice lens International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Virgemarie Salazar, Jovito Jose P Katigbak
The prevailing issues in the Green Climate Fund on implementation and governance can be seen as symptoms of the ills of the international climate finance architecture. These are compounded by the i...
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Paying terrorist ransoms: Frayed consensus, uneven outcomes & undue harm International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Jessica Davis, Alex Wilner
Terrorist groups are believed to be financed, in part, by ransoms paid for kidnap victims. As part of global efforts to counter the financing of terrorism and prevent further terrorist attacks (inc...
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The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Devon Cantwell-Chavez
As a complex system and institutional arena, the climate change regime has, for many decades, challenged International Relations (IR) scholars to expand their analysis beyond the level of the state. In The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance, Jen Iris Allan explores the phenomenon of non-expert NGOs (non-governmental organizations) shifting their advocacy
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Book Review: Middle Power in the Middle East: Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-08-27
Reviewed by: Kim Richard Nossal (nossalk@queensu.ca), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Editor’s introduction International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 W. Andy Knight
This issue of the journal contains five major scholarly essays, one “Lessons of History” essay, two very timely policy briefs, and seven critical book reviews.
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Research at risk: Global challenges, international perspectives, and Canadian solutions International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Alex Wilner, Sarah Beach-Vaive, Catherine Carbonneau, Graeme Hopkins, Félix Leblanc
Although traditionally viewed as paragons of international cooperation, research institutions and universities are becoming venues for hostile foreign activity. Research security (RS) refers to the...
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Canada’s cross-pacific relations: From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Jacob Benjamin
This essay proposes a periodization of Canada’s cross-Pacific relations: from the Asia-Pacific era beginning in the 1980s to the Indo-Pacific era beginning around 2018. In the era of the Asia-Pacif...
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The origins and early history of Canada’s Cold War scientific intelligence, 1946-65 International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Matthew S. Wiseman
In the process of creating the policies and structures that led to the formal organization of Canada’s Defence Research Board after the end of the Second World War, senior military and defence offi...
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“How reliable an ally?”: Surveying American power and credibility after the fall of Saigon—and Kabul International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Asa McKercher
The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, and the subsequent collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government in August 2021, raised doubts in the United States and abroad about the limits and ...
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Do fears of normative commitments influence nominations to senior NATO military positions? The case of Trudeau with Vance International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Michael Fejes
This article uses the Trudeau Government’s decision not to nominate General Jonathan Vance to the position of Chair of the Military Committee (CMC) as a basis to examine the extent to which states ...
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Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of EnergyTransitions International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-05-19
Reviewed by: Joshua K McEvoy (joshua.mcevoy@queensu.ca), Queen’s University
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How to de-escalate dangerous nuclear weapons and force deployments in Europe International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Frederic S Pearson, Erika Simpson
Amidst the war in Ukraine, it is important to raise the prospect and vision of creating mutual security guarantees and ridding Europe of its dangerous nuclear weapon systems and provocative force deployments. In view of reckless Kremlin rhetoric and aggressive military action in Russia’s so-called near abroad, it is time for renewed approaches to arms control. As the Ukraine situation plays out, Russia
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Book review: The Italian empire and the great war International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Jessi A. J. Gilchrist
Many scholars have explored Liberal Italy’s (1861–1922) grandiose territorial ambitions during the First World War and the myth of the “mutilated victory” that followed when Italy failed to secure them all. Yet historians have tended to view imperialism as peripheral to the real substance of Italy’s foreign policy which prioritized relations in Europe. As a part of Oxford University Press’s The Greater
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Book Review: Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Heather Smith
I’m not a historian by training. I note this by way of positioning myself as a reviewer because the volume under review is the work of historians who have a disciplinary expertise different from my own. Moreover, how we position ourselves and the lens through which we view the world matters because that lens shapes our assessment. To that end, let me note that I’m a settler, I’m white, and I’m a critical
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A lost opportunity of a grand bargain: Security architecture between NATO and Russia International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Sumantra Maitra
Ukraine is existential to Russia, but peripheral to American interests. The “escalation dominance” advantage is with Moscow, and no amount of military aid or economic coercion, short of an actual war, will deter Moscow, given the asymmetry of interests and differing threat perceptions. American public opinion remains firmly opposed to risking a potential great power war. That said, a Ukraine—if it
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Universalism and particularism: Exploring the nexus International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Palak Singh, Gopal K. Parihar
This paper endeavours to analyse the conflictual relation that the concepts of ‘Universalism’ and ‘Particularism’ share and how the debate informs our understanding of human rights. To study the concept further, the paper takes the case of the current COVID-19 pandemic to explore the tensions and possible assimilations between universalistic and particularistic frameworks using empirical evidence to
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Middle power South Korea’s disaster response contributions: A case of good international citizenship? International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Alan A. Lachica
Middle powers tend to display their expertise in areas where they possess a significant advantage, and this results in the creation of new international norms, especially on non-security issues. Disaster response is one area of international relations where middle powers project their images as good international citizens. This article discusses how middle power South Korea has displayed good international
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Developing a Canadian Indo-Pacific geopolitical orientation International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Adam MacDonald, Carter Vance
There is growing consensus that Canada needs to “do more” in the Indo-Pacific region as it becomes the centre of gravity in a changing international landscape—a landscape challenging several traditional assumptions about the nature and configuration of global power which Canadian foreign policy has rested upon for decades, specifically due to the emergence of Sino-American rivalry. It is clear Canada
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The Canadian government’s response to foreign disinformation: Rhetoric, stated policy intentions, and practices International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Nicole J. Jackson
In recent years, governments have considered how to respond to “disinformation.” However, there is little academic literature on Canada’s response in the area of security and foreign policy. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing how and why Canadian government foreign and security actors have “securitized” foreign disinformation. It argues that, since 2014, they have increased awareness about
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Africa’s Soft Power: Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Christopher Isike
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Africa’s Soft Power: Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Christopher Isike
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A view from above: Space and the Canadian Armed Forces International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Kevin Budning, Alex Wilner, Guillaume Cote
A connected battlespace aims to enable seamless, real-time connectivity between various military assets across all domains of contemporary warfare. Such a program, however, cannot be accomplished without the use of space-based assets that are designed to store and transmit data; enable communications, surveillance and imagery; and bolster interoperability between different military forces and services
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From public health to cyber hygiene: Cybersecurity and Canada’s healthcare sector International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Alex S. Wilner, Harrison Luce, Eva Ouellet, Olivia Williams, Nelson Costa
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a wave of cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector, including against hospitals, doctors, patients, medical companies, supply chains, universities, research laboratories, and public health organizations at different levels of jurisdiction and across the public and private sectors. Despite these concerns, cybersecurity in Canadian healthcare is significantly
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Book Review: JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Jack Cunningham
John F. Kennedy remains a vivid presence in the popular imagination almost 60 years after his assassination, yet we have had to wait until now for the first installment of a comprehensive biography, drawing on the rich holdings of the Kennedy Library in Boston, many of them only recently released. The first efforts at biography, by his aides Arthur Schlesinger Jr and Theodore Sorensen, were published
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Book Review: The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: 1999–2019 International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jennifer M. Welsh
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Book Review: The American war in Afghanistan: A history International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Aaron Ettinger
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Book Review: Stand on Guard: Reassessing Threats to Canada’s National Security International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Wesley Wark
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Book review: Weak strongmen: The limits of power in Putin’s Russia International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jeffrey Rice
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Book review: Breaking through: Understanding sovereignty and security in the circumpolar arctic International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Janice Cavell
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Top Secret Canada: Understanding the Canadian Intelligence and National Security Community International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Wesley Wark
To understand the Canadian security and intelligence community requires clever navigation of the vacuum created by the general failure of Canadian government transparency. The vacuum has been sustained by the bewildering lack of interest in the subject of national security displayed by the Canadian academic community at large. The first effort made to publish a description of the Canadian intelligence
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The Middle East in Canadian foreign policy and national identity formation International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Jeremy Wildeman
While often overlooked, the Middle East has been a pivotal geographical and discursive space in Canadian foreign policy and national identity formation. The region was the birthplace of Canada’s liberal internationalist foreign policy identity, Pearsonianism, and the national myths associated with it. The Middle East also appears to be where Pearsonianism was later superseded by a more realist foreign
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Opportunities to promote human rights and democratic values abroad: The case of Canadian foreign policy toward Venezuela International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Yvon Grenier
This article examines Canadian foreign policy toward Venezuela, as a litmus test of Ottawa’s promise to project a consistently strong voice for the protection of human rights and the advancement of democratic values in the world. The case is made that Canada is more likely to gear up to an assertive approach if there is a perception that there is an opportunity for democratization in the country, and
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How emerging trends in historiography expose the Canadian Army’s past discriminatory practices and provide hope for future change International Journal (IF 2.867) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Isabel Campbell
This “lessons learned” article examines how emerging trends over time in the historiography of the Canadian Army have challenged and continue to challenge the white Anglophone masculine heterosexual culture which is especially associated with its combat units. This study began as an examination of the intersection between the historiography and the current priorities for sufficient female participation