The Nato of Its Dreams? Canada and the Co-Operative Security Alliance

Haglund, David G.

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“…This ethnomethodology of statesmanship merely replaces a statist idealism with an interactionist idealism. (Bruce, 1984: 324) David G. Haglund's (1997) article on Canada's relationship to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) presents a theory of "co-operative security" in which states can define some interests in terms of a regional community, rather than being asocially autistic:…”

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Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors

Christian

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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In this article, I explain how International Relations scholarship relates to ableism. Ableism is a sociopolitical system of narratives, institutions, and actions collectively reinforcing an ideology that benefits persons deemed able-bodied, able-minded, and normal by others, and devalues, limits, and discriminates against those deemed physically and/or mentally disabled and abnormal. International Relations scholars have been quick to utilize disability metaphors as rhetorical support for their arguments and analyses. This article discusses how metaphors in general — and disability metaphors in particular — get their meaning from various other discourses and narratives. International Relations scholars, in the case of disability metaphors, often draw from discourses and narratives that perpetuate ableism. I demonstrate how disability metaphors can be ableist by researching how several International Relations foreign policy analysts and theorists have applied autism metaphors. I argue that International Relations’ uses of autism metaphors are ableist insomuch as they shape or reinforce understandings of autism that often oversimplify, overgeneralize, or otherwise misrepresent autism and Autistic people in ways that portray autism negatively. In the conclusion, I reflect on the importance of a disability studies program in International Relations and the broad set of topics that such a program should pursue.

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Section: Autism In Ir Theorymentioning

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Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors

Christian

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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“…The naïve public thesis puts the UN on one side and Canada's allies on the other. In contrast, however, it is quite plausible that the Canadian public would treat American and European leadership quite differently: American-led missions may appear much less legitimate than missions that involve multilateral ties across the Atlantic (Haglund, 1997; von Hlatky, 2013; Weitsman, 2013). Since the 1990s, NATO has come to justify its military missions with similar “human security” arguments as UN peace operations have, thus presenting itself as embodying broader global concerns, and doing so even more effectively than the UN system does.…”

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“…important degree of legitimacy, particularly in comparison with the United States alone (Haglund, 1997;von Hlatky, 2013;Weitsman, 2013). Partnerships with Canada's European allies would then be one way to gain public support for missions as well as fulfill realpolitik concern for alliances (Jockel and Sokolsky, 2009).…”

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“…According to what I call the naïve public thesis, the Canadian public, caught up in the myth of UN peacekeeping, thinks above all about airy notions of legitimacy and doing good in the world, not about supporting Canada's allies (Granatstein, 2008). Others argue for what I call the “multilateral Atlantic” thesis: that the transatlantic alliance enjoys an important degree of legitimacy, particularly in comparison with the United States alone (Haglund, 1997; von Hlatky, 2013; Weitsman, 2013). Partnerships with Canada's European allies would then be one way to gain public support for missions as well as fulfill realpolitik concern for alliances (Jockel and Sokolsky, 2009).…”

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Partnerships in Military Interventions and the Canadian Public

McLauchlin¹

2016

Can J Pol Sci

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Do Canadians’ preferences for Canada's role in the world depend on who Canada acts with and not just what Canada does? This question is particularly important in the context of overseas military intervention, which Canada never undertakes on its own. This paper presents a survey experiment measuring how support for a hypothetical peace operation changes with the leader of the mission. Missions led by the United Nations and by Canada's European allies receive more support than American-led missions do, especially among respondents who also favour peace operations for substantive reasons. The finding suggests that the UN and the European connection are alternative ways for a mission to benefit from a preference for multilateralism. While the results confirm some tension between American-led missions and internationalism, European partnerships may offer a way of reconciling an interest in alliances with the internationalist Canadian public.

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“…But others see more consistency in Canadian grand strategy. David Haglund (1997Haglund ( , 2000 has pointed to the role of strategic principles, exemplified in the concept of cooperative security and the North Atlantic Triangle, in underpinning much of Canada's post-war behavior, even if he acknowledges "modesty" (Haglund 1997, p. 481) in this strategy since the late 1960s.…”

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Canada, grand strategy and the Asia-Pacific: Past lessons, future directions

McDonough

2012

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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The Nato of Its Dreams? Canada and the Co-Operative Security Alliance

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Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors

Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors

Partnerships in Military Interventions and the Canadian Public

Canada, grand strategy and the Asia-Pacific: Past lessons, future directions

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