Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

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. -- Claire Turenne Sjolander, Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa 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. -- Harald von Riekhoff, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

About the Author

Rosalind Irwin teaches political science at York University and is a research associate at York’s Centre for International and Security Studies.

Reviews

"A useful and important addition to courses on Canadian foreign policy, particularly in that it raises issues surrounding ethics and security as a foreign policy objective." - Claire Turenne Sjolander, Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa; The work is highly relevant to 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." - Harald von Riekhoff, Department of Political Science; Carleton University