Review: Canada and the Middle East
| Author | Salim Mansur |
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209605100129 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/CANADA
189
promotion
of
democratic
practice.
How
is
this
to
be
evaluated?
Can
a
democratic
process
lead
to
undemocratic
policies?
This
volume
also
examines
the
current
efforts
of
several
states,
such
as
Russia
and
South
Africa, to
make
the transition
from
authoritative
governments
to
more democratic
forms
of
government.
In fact,
this
leads
to
the
only
minor
shortcoming
of
the book.
Some
articles
pay
scant
heed
to
Canadian
foreign
policy.
The
reader
has
come
to
expect
that
regardless
of
the
theme,
the
main
focus
of
each
edition
of
Canada
Among
Nations
will
be
on
Canada. Anglin's
article
on
South
Africa, for
example,
is
a
masterful
account
of
that
country's
successful
transfor-
mation
to
democracy,
but
it
does
not
provide
any
information
on
Cana-
dian
policy.
Likewise,
Chandler's
informative
piece
on
Russia's
efforts
to
democratize
contains
little
information
on
Canadian
involvement
or
Canadian
policy.
This
is,
of
course,
a
critique
of
relevance
and
not
of
content
and
should
be
recognized
as
such.
Nevertheless,
this
edition continues the
well
developed
tradition
of
other
volumes
in
this
series
and
should
be
required
reading
for anyone
concerned
with
Canadian
foreign
and
defence
policies
in
1995.
Rob
Huebert/University
of
Manitoba
CANADA
AND
THE MIDDLE
EAST
The
foreign
policy
of
a
client
state
Tareq
Y.
Ismael
Alberta: Detselig
Enterprises
for
the
American-Arab
Institute
for
Stra-
tegic
Studies, 1994,
126pp,
n.p.
This
monograph
by
one
of
Canada's
leading
academic
scholars
on
the
Middle
East
has
a
somewhat
misleading
title.
It
focusses
primarily
on
Canada's
shifting
positions
on the
most
intractable
aspect
of
the
Arab-
Israel
conflict
-
the
Palestinian
issue
-
and/or
Canada's
role
during
the
Gulf
crisis
of
199o-1.
Through
these
two
issues
Ismael
describes
Canada's
foreign
policy towards
the
Middle
East
as
shifting
from
mod-
estly
independent
to increasingly
subordinate
to
the
interests
of
the
United
States.
Foreign
policy
independence
was
effective
when
there
were
disagreements
within
the
Western
alliance,
as
in
the
Suez crisis,
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