Review: Canada: Knight-Errant?
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300318 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
This
is
the
first
of
a
series
of
mono-
Canada's
role
in driving the
cam-
graphs
published
by
Irwin
for
the
paign
for
an
international
treaty
to
cHA,
and
it
sets
a
high
standard.
ban
anti-personnel
landmines
was
Concisely
and with wit,
Bothwell
late
in getting
significant
attention
surveys
Canada's
role
in
the
cold
in
Canada.
Ironically, one
of
the
war
-
and
provides
a
number
of
first
major
stories
on
the
role
Cana-
shrewd
and
revealing
insights.
da
played
was
written
by
Craig
Among
other
things,
he
points
Turner
of
the
LosAngeles
Times
-
out
that,
in
contrast
with
the
two
and
splashed
over
the front
page
of
World
Wars, Korea
was
not
an
occa-
the
Toronto
Star.
When
the
crusade
sion
for
national
disunity:
'Of
the
did
get
scrutinized,
the
attention
10,600
Canadians
who
served
in
was
largely
uncritical
-
praising
the
Korea,
3,100
came
from
Quebec.'
minister
of
foreign
affairs,
Lloyd
He
cites
the
experience
of
Cana-
Axworthy,
for
his
role
and
generally
dian diplomats
on
the
International
indulging
in
patriotic
self-congratu-
Control
Commissions
in
Indochina
lation.
-
fully
one-third
of
Canada's
foreign
Quietly, and
in
balanced
fashion,
service
officers
served there
over
two
David
Lenarcic
questions
these
decades
-
and
the
profound
effect
assumptions.
'On
the
surface,
Cana-
that
this
direct
experience
with
da's
crusade
against
land
mines
looks
communism
had
on
the subsequent
like
a
classic
case
of
enlightened
mid-
formulation
of
Canadian
foreign dlepowermanship,'
he
writes.
'On
policy.
Similarly, he shrewdly
closer
inspection,
however,
it
has
the
observes
the
degree
to
which
the
oil
appearance
of
a
dogmatic
style
of
crisis
in
the
1970s
helped
the
Soviet
diplomacy
whose
confrontational
Union
to
catch
up
to
the
West
-
and
nature
goes
against
the
grain
of
some
traces
the
impact
of
Pierre
Trudeau's
long-established
Canadian
practices.'
scepticism
of
United
States
anti-
He
also
questions
the
military
communism
and
the
legacy
it
left
wisdom
of
a
comprehensive
anti-
for
Brian
Mulroney.
The
result
is
an
personnel
landmines
ban.
effective
and
readable
summary.
'Here,
the
case
can
be
made
that
the ultimate
objective
of
Canada's
KNIGHT-ERRANT?
APL
agenda
does
not
adequately
take
Canada
and the
crusade
to
ban
anti-
into account the
existing
require-
personnel
land
mines
ments
of
the
country's
defence
poli-
David
A.
Lenarcic
cy
or
the
potential
need
of
its
sol-
Toronto:
Irwin
and
the
GILA,
Contem- diers.'
porary
Affairs
2,
1998,
xv,
128
pp,
The
result
is
a
provocative
and
$17.95
paper
useful
essay.
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JOURNAL
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1998
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