Research Catalog

Title

Navigating a new world : Canada's global future / Lloyd Axworthy.

Author

Axworthy, Lloyd.

Publication

Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003.

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Details

Description

xi, 450 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront poverty, war and environmental disaster.Before Lloyd Axworthy entered global politics, "human security" -- a philosophy calling for global responsibility to the interests of individuals rather than to the interests of the nation state or multi-national corporations -- was a controversial and unfamiliar idea. When put into action, human security led to an international ban on landmines, initiatives to curtail the use of child soldiers, and the formation of the International Criminal Court. Today, with conflict raging across the planet -- and building -- the need for a humane, secure international governance is more vital than ever. So how can Canada reject a world model dominated by U.S. policy, military force and naked self-interest? How can we rethink a global world from the perspective of people -- our security, our needs, our promise, our dreams?

Subject

• Security, International
• Human rights
• International cooperation
• Humanitarian assistance, Canadian
• International relations
• War > Protection of civilians
• Human Rights
• International Cooperation
• international relations
• Diplomatic relations
• Canada > Foreign relations
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-429) and index.

Contents

Prologue: Canada and the World -- Part I: Emma and Us -- 1. The Road to Gulu Part II: The Tenth Floor -- 2. Vocational Training -- 3. Choices and Consequences -- Part III: Border Choices -- 4. How to Make Love to a Porcupine -- 5. The North American Condo -- Part IV: Human Security -- 6. The Ottawa Process -- 7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold -- 8. Responsibility to Protect -- 9. A New Court for a New Century -- 10. The Crowded Global Village -- Part V: The United Nations -- 11. Rewiring the UN -- 12. Rebirth of a Country -- Part VI: Environmental Security -- 13. The Machine in the Garden -- 14. Kyoto and Beyond -- Part VII: Searching for Survival in a World of Weapons -- 15. Disarmament on Earth, Disarmament in Space -- Part VIII: The Two Emmas -- 16. Putting Our Ship in Order -- 17. Navigating a New World.

ISBN

• 0676974635
• 9780676974638

LCCN

2004401075

OCLC

• ocm51923269
• 51923269
• SCSB-1696567

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library