Review: Les Casques Bleus
| Author | R.A. Dallaire |
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209605100127 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
ning'
in
a
city
experiencing
'rapid
and
unregulated
growth'
(p
183).
Hal
Klepak
examines
'security'
in
Latin
America.
Security
per
se
has
not
been
emphasized
in
Canadian
policy,
or
at
least
Canadian
policy-
makers
have a
different
interpretation
of
it
than
policy-makers
in
the
United
States.
Since
security
is
a
large
part
of
the
work
of
the
OAS,
much
of
Klepak's work
involves
policy
in
the
1990-3
period.
In the final
essay,
Laura Macdonald
tackles
the
NGOs
in
Latin
America.
She
assesses
their
changing
role,
noting
that
circumstances
today
dictate
that
NGOS
focus
on
'policy
analysis
and
advocacy'
(p 253).
Strengthening
civil
societies
in
developing
countries
is
a
part
of
democratization,
and
she
relates
this
process
to
the
new
role
of
NGOS.
One
issue
she
does
not
tackle
is
the
connection
between
a
stronger
civil
society
and
sustainable
economic
development
at
the
local
level.
The
overall
objective
of
the
book,
according
to
the editors,
is
to
'stimulate
debate
on
the
issues,
challenges
and
policy
alternatives
facing
Canada
in
the
Americas'
(p
io).
With
few
exceptions,
the
articles
are
primarily
descriptive
of
policy
changes.
Thus
they
provide
excellent
background
material for those unfamiliar
with how
Canadian
foreign
policy
has
altered.
The
book
is
a
significant
contribution
in
that
regard.
Perhaps
volume
ii
will
assess
the impact
of
these
changes.
Mark
0.
Dickerson/University
of
Calgary
LES
CASQUES BLEUS
Jocelyn
Coulon
Quebec:
les
6ditions
Fides,
1994,
349PP
Jocelyn
Coulon
has
written
extensively
on
Canadian
defence
issues
in
the
post-Cold
War
era,
and
inevitably this
latest
work
covers
some
famil-
iar
ground.
What
is
new
and
important,
however,
is
that
he
quickly
sets
the
tone
for
his
thinking
by
dividing
the
book into
three
parts:
the
re-
emergence
of
the
United
Nations,
the blue
helmets,
and
the
United
Nations
standing
army. He
begins
with
the
premise
that
traditional
ad
hoc
methods
of
setting
up
United
Nations peace
support
operations
can
no
longer
continue
in this
post-Cold
War
era.
As
evidence,
Coulon
points
to
the
proliferation
of
United
Nations
operations
deployed
around
the
world
today,
as
well
as
to
their
increased
complexity.
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