CANADIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SUDAN AND RWANDA
Canada is an important player in the international peacekeeping system. Canada has been involved in important crises like East Timor, Rwanda, Tsunami and many more. Canada has fifty years of experience in peacekeeping and has participated in most of the missions mandated by the UN security council. ....
Criticisms and Commendations of Bill Clintons Foreign Policy
Jeffrey Rogerson
Dr. Kilroy
POLS 3144
5 April 2007
Criticisms and Commendations
William Jefferson Clinton entered office as the third youngest president to ever serve as the nations Commander in Chief (Wikipedia). Bill Clinton exited the presidency with the highest percentage of public appr....
Diamond Conflict in Sierra Leone
Delegation: Sierra Leone
Commission: Disarmament
The question of the role of diamonds in fueling conflict in Africa
Through the 1990s, Sierra Leones rebel war became a tragedy of major humanitarian, political and historic proportions, but the story goes back further - almost 60 years, to th....
Don't be Honest, Don't be You - Polictics of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The last thing anyone could relate the military policy of Don't Ask Don't Tell to is a Disney Classic, but the toils and tribulations of Mulan in the movie Mulan are much like those of a homosexual solider in the United States Military. Mulan is a woman who joins the Chinese military because she wan....
Peacekeeping: the fall of the Canadian Military
Canada, in being regarded as a peacekeeping nation by others, has weakened its ability to assert itself as a world power. Canada has been involved in the United Nations Peace Force since 1956, when Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Prize for establishing the United Nations Emergency Force. United Nat....
The Cold War
Nuclear Weapons after the Cold War
Vertaal Deur R Strauss
Nuclear weapons played a major, if fortunately only latent, role in the Cold War. The end of that conflict consequently ought to be the occasion for a review of their role in international affairs. In practice, however, perhaps because ....
What determines success and failure in United Nations peacekeeping?
I think it is important when starting this essay to bring into focus what exactly
Peacekeeping is so as to determine whether or not it is a success in terms of what peacekeeping was envisioned to do. The United Nations Charter, Chapter 6, Article 33(1) sets forth a comprehensive list of peaceful m....