Review: Democracy and Foreign Policy
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209605100128 |
| Author | Rob Huebert |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/CANADA
187
In
the
second
part
of
this
timely
study,
Coulon
shocks
the
readers
by
drawing
upon
a
compendium
of
reports
to show
a
somewhat
less
than
flattering
image
of
United
Nations
peacekeepers
who
are
often
ill-equipped,
ill-fed,
ill-paid
soldiers
who
operate
in
what
is
being
increasingly
perceived
as
a
high-risk,
frustrating,
and
thankless
job.
This
being
said,
Coulon
then
proceeds
to
laud
the
professionalism
displayed
by
the
vast
majority
of
Canadian troops
deployed
on
United
Nations
peace
support
operations
and
contrasts
this
with
other
national
contin-
gencies
deployed
on similar
ones.
In
the
third
part
of
his
book,
Coulon
focusses
on
the debate
sur-
rounding
a
United
Nations
standing
army.
Much
to
his
credit,
he
uses
this
issue
as
a
nice
primer
to suggest
that
with
the
proposed
reforms
the
United
Nations
must
go
further
than
simply
creating
a
standing
army.
The debates
surrounding
such
issues
as
proper
military
training
and equipment,
contingency
planning,
the
need
for
greater
involve-
ment
and
support
for
United
Nations
peacekeepers
by
the
interna-
tional
community
and,
in
particular,
by
the
United
Nations
Security
Council,
and
a
self-sufficient
Canadian
vanguard
force are
all
conveyed
in
this
part of
the
book.
In
short,
Les
Casques
Bleus
is
most
useful
in
framing
the
need
for
reforming
the
United
Nations.
It
is
an
authoritative,
readable
treatment
of
United
Nations
peacekeepers
in
the
199os.
If
it
does
not
cause
Cana-
dians
to
think
hard
about
where
the
international
community
is
leading
the
United
Nations
and
what
role Canada
should
play
in
the
latter
in
coming
years,
it
is
unlikely
that
anything
in
writing
can
or
will.
R.A.
Dallaire/Canadian
Land
Forces
Command
DEMOCRACY
AND
FOREIGN
POLICY
Canada among nations
1995
Edited
by
Maxwell
A.
Cameron
and
Maureen
Appel
Molot
Ottawa:
Carleton
University
Press,
1995,
x,
30opp,
$22.95
paper
The
editors
of
this
collection deserve
congratulations
for keeping
the
various
authors
focussed
on the principal
theme
-
does democracy
mat-
ter
in
the
conduct of
foreign
policy?
For
the
most
part,
the
contributors
examine
either
the
issue
of
how
democratic
the
Canadian
foreign
and
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