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The United Nations, Peace and Security |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 00:00 |
 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521671255 © Ramesh Thakur 2006, First published 2006 | | Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with interstate war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the United States, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policy-makers in the UN and other NGOs. RAMESH THAKUR is Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University and an Assistant Secretary-General of the United | | Dr. Ramesh Thakur awarded for the best book on United Nations Waterloo, Canada - July 23, 2008 - The Centre for International Governance Innovation CIGI) is pleased to announce that its Distinguished Fellow Ramesh Thakur has won a prestigious Friends of ACUNS book award, which is presented annually to an author who has demonstrated outstanding research and writing on the United Nations (UN). View as [pdf] |
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Chapter in The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 00:00 |
 | ©Transaction Publishers (July 31, 2009) ISBN-10: 1412810361 ISBN-13: 978-1412810364 | Book Description from Amazon.com
In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are forbidden to acquire them, a status quo that lacks rational basis and cannot be sustained. In this remarkable collection, scholars and policy analysts argue that humankind has a choice: either allow nuclear weapons to continue to proliferate throughout the world or move toward their complete elimination. The vast majority of people on the planet would surely opt to abolish nuclear weapons. But decisions about nuclear weapons are not made by the public, but by small groups of political elites. David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation | Chapter Nine - The new U.S. doctrine of pre-emptive warfare and its implications for nuclear deterrence and disarmament, by Dr. Erika Simpson The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), leaked to the media in early 2002, allowed for the use of nuclear weapons in three scenarios...in the same year, the Bush administration declared in its National Security Strategy (NSS): "Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past... To forestall or prevent such hostile acts the U.S. will, if necessary, act preemptively." View chapter as [pdf] |
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Creative Dissent: A Politician's Stuggle for Peace |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:00 |
 | Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace by the Rt. Hon. Douglas Roche
ISBN: 978-2-89646-029-8
available from
Novalis
10 Lower Spadina Ave, Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2Z2
Tel. 416-363-3303
Fax. 416-363-9409
| | A political memoir that takes us behind the scenes in describing the tensions of a public life devoted to peace and social justice. Featuring a compelling introduction by the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, Canadas 16th Prime Minister, Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace recounts Douglas Roche's life story. Roche is one of only three Canadians who has served his country as a Member of Parliament, Ambassador and Senator. Over the past 30 years, he has emerged as one of the world's most passionate advocates for nuclear disarmament. |
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Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:00 |
 | Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? by Michael Byers
Source: Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group A compelling call to arms to reinvigorate our vision of Canada’s place in the world, from one of the best of our new generation of public intellectuals. |
Why do Canadians think so small? “We’re a serious country. But our clout—we don’t use it,” says Michael Byers, who argues it is time for a clear-eyed appreciation of our strengths and weaknesses, of all we have and all we could be. Instead of emulating our increasingly isolated neighbour, Byers says we should be advancing the Canadian model, an idealistic, fiscally prudent, socially progressive vision of foreign policy that has never looked so good.
Playing against George Grant’s seminal Lament for a Nation, Intent for a Nation is his informed and opinionated overview of where Canada stands in the world and what aggressive and progressive social, environmental, and governmental policies are needed to carry the country forward in an ever more competitive and volatile world. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:00 |
 | The Truth About Canada
Some Important, Some Astonishing
and Some Truly Appalling Things
All Canadians Should Know About Our Country by Mel Hurtzig
publ. McClelland & Stewart, April 2008 Renowned as a passionate Canadian, best-selling author Mel Hurtig has combed through world statistics to see how Canada really measures up – and the results are astonishing, and often shocking. |
This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years. As a result of these profound (often hidden) changes, we are no longer the people we think we are. To take one example, the Canadian media usually leaves us with the impression that Canadians are really heavily taxed. Yes, compared to the U.S.A., the usual point of comparison. No, compared to other countries with our standard of living, other OECD countries, for example; there we come in 23rd on the high-tax scale. The shocks in this book build up, chapter by chapter. How do we rank in the world in voter turnout? Try 109th. Number of physicians per 100,000 population: Try 54th. Our rank in reducing pollution? 126th out of 146 countries. Some of the statistics are internal, comparing Canada then and now. They back up two of the book’s most powerful themes; the failure of Canadian big business to turn record profits into ongoing investment in our country, and (no coincidence) the sellout of our assets at a rate that no other country would allow. Mel Hurtig has managed to identify and chronicle the central political narrative of Canada's last quarter-century - how a succession of business-oriented elites have, with the assistance of an increasingly pliant press and powerful corporate interests, eroded Canada's Canada's social safety net and threatened its already tenuous independence in economic and foreign affairs. Quill and Quire advance review, April, 2008: This statistics-based book ranges across all areas of our lives – incuding health, wages, productivity, culture, the media (“the most concentrated in the world”), and much else. Mel Hurtig’s message is that we can’t do anything to fix the direction we’re drifting in unless we recognize it – and recognize The Truth About Canada. |
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