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From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking: Canada’s Response to the Yugoslav Crisis

By Nicholas Gammer

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0773521518, 9780773521513
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13527588 bytes)
Series
Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies
Pages
432\254
Time added
2016-11-12 05:53:53
Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenl

Description

Given the support of the Mulroney government, many of the Canadian units under the United Nations in Yugoslavia were willing to bend the United Nations' rules of engagement when confronting Muslim, Serb, and Croat forces, establishing Srebrenica as a Muslim safe haven and defending it against Serb attacks. The Chretien government, however, assumed a more cautious policy. Gammer shows how understanding the government's role in this particular crisis contributes to our understanding of the role that political leadership plays in shaping Canadian foreign policy in general, as well as advancing our knowledge of the broader theoretical debates surrounding the legitimacy and effectiveness of humanitarian intervention in the internal affairs of state.

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