Canada and the use of Force
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200405900201 |
| Author | Jutta Brunnée,Stephen J. Toope |
| Date | 01 June 2004 |
| Published date | 01 June 2004 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
JUTTA
BRUNNEE
&
STEPHEN
J.
TOOPE
Canada
and
the
use
of
force
Reclaiming
human
security
THE
EVENTS
OF
1I
SEPTEMBER
2001
PROPELLED
the
issue
of
global
ter-
rorism to
the
top
of
the
international
agenda,
and prompted
dramatic
shifts
in
international
political
dynamics.
Although
there
is
wide
agree-
ment
that
the
world
is
facing
complex security
challenges,
a
harsh
debate
has
opened up
over
the
appropriate
responses.
Building
on
the
existing
rhetoric
of
the
"clash
of
civilizations,"' this
debate
was
initially
cast
as
one
between
the
west
and
Islam
and
emerged
immediately
upon
the
invasion
of
Afghanistan.
What
is
now
apparent
is
that
fissures
have
broken
open
within
western
culture
that
may
be
equally
wide.
2
The
most
pointed
disagreements
pit
the
political
and
cultural
elites
of
"Old
Jutta
Brunn&e
isprofessor
of/lw and
Metcalf
Chair
in
Environmental
Law
at
the
University
of
Toronto,
and
Stephen
J
Toope
is
president
of
the
Pierre Elliott
Trudeau
Foundation
and
professor
of
law
at
McGill
University
(on
leave). The
views
expressed
should
not
be
attributed
to
the
Foundation.
The
authors
benefitted
from
the
excellent
research
assistance
ofSarah
Perkins,
Robert
Rastorp
and
Sean
Rehaag.
In
September
2003,
the
Canadian Centre/or
Foreign Policy
Development
of
DFAIT
funded
a
workshop
that
considered
a
draft
of
this
paper.
The
authors
thank
all
the
workshop
participants
and
Kent
Roach
for
their
comments.
This
essay
is
part
ofa
larger
research
project
funded
by
the
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
of
Canada.
1
Samuel
P.
Huntington,
"The
Clash
of
Civilisations?"
ForeignAffairs
72,
no.
3
(Summer
1993):
22.
2
See
Dominique
Mosi,
"Whither
the
West,"
Foreign
Affairs
82,
no.
6
(November/December
2003):
67,
which argues
that
November
9,1989,
the
fall
of
the Berlin
Wall, marked
the
end
of
the
"old
West,"
and
the beginning
of
a
disso-
nance
between
European
and
American
interests;
Jed
Rubenfeld,
"The
Two
World
Orders,"
Wilson
Quarterly(Autumn
2003):
22,
which
argues
that
two
fundamentally
different
understandings
of
the
international
legal
order
are
espoused
by
Europeans
and
Americans
respectively.
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Spring
2004
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