Review: Worthwhile Initiatives?
| Date | 01 March 2001 |
| Published date | 01 March 2001 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200105600115 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
But
the
fishery
will
no longer
do
it.
For the
first
time
fish have
to
come
ahead
of
fishermen
in
Canada's
fishery
policy.
As
Blake
warns:
'If
the
stocks
recover
and
we
get
a
second
chance,
it
will
be
our
last.'
WORTHWHILE
INITIATIVES?
Canadian
mission-oriented
diplomacy
Edited
by
Andrew
E
Cooper and
Geoffrey
Hayes
Toronto:
Irwin,
xiii,
116
pp,
$19.95,
ISBN
0-7725-2825-X
The
title
is
taken
from the
well-known
but
apocryphal headline
-
Worthwhile Canadian
Initiative
-
jocularly described
as
the
most
bor-
ing
headline
ever.
The
book,
which
had
its
origins
in
a
workshop
at
the
University
of
Waterloo,
is
a
collection
of
often
intriguing
essays
that
examine
Canadian
initiatives,
from
Team
Canada
to
the
ill-fated
Zaire/Great
Lakes
mission in
Africa
in
1996-7,
from the
attempt
to
mobilize
against
the
Helms-Burton
Act
to
the
development
of
the
Arctic
Council,
from
landmines to
the
Trudeau
peace
initiative.
Claire
Turenne
Sjolander
and
Miguel
de
Larrinaga
take
a
hard
look
at
the
Team
Canada
experience.
'Far
from
the idealistic
vision
of
inter-
national
humanitarian
co-operation
embodied
in
the
land
mines
ini-
tiative, Team
Canada
responds to
the
hard,
rationalist,
business logic
that
imbues
globalization,'
they
write.
'Through
Team
Canada
mis-
sions,
the
state
is
able
to
distance
itself
from
its
responsibility
in
con-
structing
and
expanding
an
economic
system
in
which
social
disloca-
tion
has
become
an
increasingly
prevalent feature.'
The
scepticism
is
refreshing.
PEACEKEEPING
AND
PEACEBUILDING
FOR
HUMANITY
Reflections
of
a
war
crimes
investigator
Richard
J.
Goldstone
New Haven
&
London:
Yale
University
Press,
2000,
xxiv,
152
pp,
us$18.50,
ISBN
0-300-08205-3
T
he
twentieth
century
has
been
marked
by
widespread
human
rights
abuses
and
a
succession
of
violent
atrocities:
the
Holocaust,
the
Killing
Fields
of
Cambodia,
apartheid
in
South
Africa,
ethnic
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