Some thoughts on a US-Quebec defense relationship [after Quebec independence]

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Title:	Some thoughts on a US-Quebec defense relationship [after Quebec independence]
Source:	American Review of Canadian Studies , v.27(1) Spr’97Sovereign Quebec & the US pg 121-134
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Year:	1997
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Keywords:	Canada, human rights, Quebec, sovereignty, United States, US, diplomacy, civil and political rights, security, Soviet Union, liberty, national defence
Abstract:	Any discussion of a defense relationship between an independent Quebec and the United States must be framed, at least initially, around several matters: the political conditions which produced the separation of Quebec from Canada; the domestic and foreign policies announced by Quebec; the emerging diplomatic relationship between Quebec and Canada; and, finally, American assessments of the future of the truncated Canada and the viability of Quebec. Owing to the United States’ political, economic, and military power, American national interests will be enormous factors in the emerging defense dialogue with a sovereign Quebec. These, in turn, will be affected by several other issues: geo-strategic conditions; the global political convulsions that have shaken the world since the breakup of the Soviet Union; current questions being raised about how to define national security in the evolving international environment; internal and external political, economic, social, and cultural pressures which are being placed upon present defense arrangements to respond to these two conditions; and “the analytic requirement that must underlie any sort of robust institutional transformation” of current security arrangements. This latter point provides the members of the international community, including a sovereign Quebec, with an unprecedented opportunity to engage in a substantive global debate on how to define national security in a rapidly changing world.
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