Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy
This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians in the turbulent global environment of the twenty-first century. These reflections, by some of the leading scholars in the field, link the abstract analytical and philosophical questions of “ethics” to the critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice in Canadian foreign policy.
Contributors to this volume deal with both the abstract notions of value, culture, norms, and ethics, and the concrete questions of policy, law, and enforcement. They assess the challenges and the opportunities presented by new concepts, such as human security, mutual vulnerability, soft power, global cultural scripts, “good governance,” and niche diplomacy, for foreign policy decision making. The addition of suggested seminar questions, a list of further readings, and a sample course outline add to the usefulness of this text in a practical classroom setting.
A useful and important addition to courses on Canadian foreign policy, particularly in that it raises issues surrounding ethics and security in a theoretical manner ... An impressive cautionary tale of human security as a foreign policy objective.
The work is highly relevant to the current discourse on the evolving concept of security and makes a genuine contribution to the underlying theoretical discussion ... It will appeal to a wide audience and, because of its broad range of selected issue areas, will serve as a very useful textbook for courses on Canadian foreign policy.
Part 1: Introduction
1 Linking Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy / Rosalind Irwin
Part 2: Ethics and Security: Conceptual and Analytical Issues within a Changing Global Context
2 The Ethics of Mutual Vulnerability: A Developmental Perspective for Foreign Policy / Jorge Nef
3 The Ethics of Development Assistance and Human Security: From Realism and Sovereigntism to Cosmopolitanism / Peter Penz
Part 3: Ethics and Canadian Policies towards Human Rights and Development Assistance
4 Moral Vision and Foreign Policy: The Case of Canadian Development Assistance / Cranford Pratt
5 Niche Diplomacy in Canadian Human Rights Policy: Ethics or Economics? / Heather Smith
6 Gender, Food Security, and Foreign Policy Towards Africa: Women Farmers in Kenya and the Right to Sustenance / Terisa E. Turner, Leigh S. Brownhill, and Wahu M. Kaara
Part 4: International Humanitarian Law and Norms
7 Soft Power, Moral Suasion, and Establishing the International Criminal Court: Canadian Contributions / W. Andy Knight
8 Echoes of Apartheid? Canada, Nigeria, and the Politics of Norms / David Black
9 Theorizing the Landmine Campaign: Ethics, Global Cultural Scripts, and the Laws of War / Andrew Latham
Part 5: Humanitarian Intervention and Democratization
10 Humanitarian Intervention in Zaire: A Case study of Humanitarian Realism / Howard Adelman
11 Promoting Democracy in Haiti: Assessing the Practical and Ethical Implications / Tom Keating
Part 6: The Ethics of Energy and Natural Resource Security: Fishing and Nuclear Policy
12 The Ethics of CANDU Exports / Duane Bratt
13 Fishing for Norms: Foreign Policy and the Turbot Dispute of 1995 / Peter J. Stoett
Part 7: Conclusions
14 Towards Human Security? / Rosalind Irwin
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
Contributors
Index
