Lloyd Axworthy’s legacy: human security and the rescue of Canadian defence policy

ID:	HARP-368
Title:	Lloyd Axworthy’s legacy: human security and the rescue of Canadian defence policy
Source:	International Journal , v.56(1) Wint’00/01 pg 1-18
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, human rights, social security, peace, British Columbia, foreign policy, civil and political rights, security, Cold War, armed force, liberty
Abstract:	THE POST-COLD WAR DEBATES over whether and how Canada should be involved in overseas conflicts are coming to a close. Canada will both fight and keep the peace, due in large part to Lloyd Axworthy, who stepped down after four years as minister of foreign affairs to take a position at the University of British Columbia. Henceforth, when the Canadian Forces go abroad, they will do so, as they did in Kosovo, explicitly or implicitly in support of `human security.’ Axworthy, the author of the Canadian human security agenda, has thus won an important political victory and a long-lasting ministerial legacy extending beyond the Department of Foreign Affairs to its sometime arch-rival, the Department of National Defence. For with his human security concept he has paved the way for nothing short of rescuing Canadian defence policy from military irrelevance and strategic sterility.
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