Canadian Public Opinion and Government Policy Toward the Middle East

Canadian Public Opinion and Government Policy Toward the Middle East
Author: Jack Zubrzycki
Publsiher: Kingston, Ont. : Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada ; Washington, D.C. : International Center for Research and Public Policy
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0937807036

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Canada and the Middle East

Canada and the Middle East
Author: Paul Heinbecker,Bessma Momani
Publsiher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781554581153

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Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s efforts to promote its interests and values—peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism, for example—and investigate the views of interested communities on Canada’s relations with countries of the Middle East. Canada and the Middle East will be useful to academics and students studying the Middle East, Canadian foreign policy, and international relations. It will also serve as a primer for Canadian companies investing in the Middle East and a helpful reference for Canada’s foreign service and journalists stationed abroad by providing a background to Canadas interestsand role in the region. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

From Lebanon to the Intifada

From Lebanon to the Intifada
Author: Ronnie Miller
Publsiher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081917985X

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This text seeks to examine the relationship over time between Canada and Israel, and by doing so, to highlight the relationship of Canada's Jewish community with Israel, and Canada's Jewish community with the Canadian government. The author explores in detail the activities of the Jewish Foreign Policy Lobby in Canada and its impact on the formulation of Canadian Middle East policy. Includes a detailed examination of Canadian policymakers' positions in key situations, such as Prime Minister Trudeau's speeches, Foreign Minister MacGuigan's speeches, and the like, which provide a concrete and specific focus that has not been offered in earlier studies. Contents: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Canada-Israel Committee; Canadian Middle East Policy; Was Trudeau's Middle East Policy Even-Handed?; Public Opinion and Canadian Middle East Policy; The Jewish Lobby and Canadian Middle East Policy; and What About the Intifada?

What Lies Ahead Canada s Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians

What Lies Ahead  Canada   s Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians
Author: Jeremy Wildeman,Emma Swan
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2021-12-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781000533606

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This edited volume explores Canada’s foreign policy relationship with the Palestinians and broader Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). Canada was intensively involved from 1992 to 2000 in peacebuilding as a mediator in the multilateral part of the MEPP, as chair of the Refugee Working Group, and sponsor of Track II negotiations. This all changed after a significant mid-2000s discursive and policy shift when Canada withdrew from the politics of Israel-Palestine peacebuilding and took a strong partisan stance in favour of Israel. Through 10 chapters by current and former government insiders and academics with extensive field experience, this unique edited volume offers insight into decades of evolution in Canadian policy toward the Palestinians, MEPP and the Middle East. It arrives at an important time when the international community is reconsidering how it views Israel’s entrenched occupation of the Palestinians, after three failed decades of United States-led efforts to find peace through a negotiated two-state model. Today, peace may never have appeared further away after the Trump Administration adopted policies directly contradictory to the MEPP. This proved a test to Canada’s own official policy toward Israel and Palestine, its longest running and most important region of engagement in the Middle East. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, guest edited by Jeremy Wildeman and Emma Swan.

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Author: Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick
Publsiher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781771990295

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In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.

Public Opinion and the Palestine Question

Public Opinion and the Palestine Question
Author: Elia Zureik,Fouad Moughrabi
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2023-03-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781000891492

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Public Opinion and the Palestine Question (1987) analyses public opinion on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It studies attitudes in various Western democratic countries and Israel, and examines whether the governments of those countries reflect the general positions on the issue of their people. It shows important changes taking place in the orientations of Western public opinion on the Palestinian question.

Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice

Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice
Author: Thomas Juneau,Philippe Lagassé,Srdjan Vucetic
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-09-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783030264031

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This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates and issues in Canadian defence policy studies. The contributors examine topics including the development of Canadian defence policy and strategic culture, North American defence cooperation, gender and diversity in the Canadian military, and defence procurement and the defence industrial base. Emphasizing the process of defence policy-making, rather than just the outcomes of that process, the book focuses on how political and organizational interests impact planning, as well as the standard operating procedures that shape Canadian defence policy and practices.

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics
Author: John Courtney,David Smith
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780195335354

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation that has occurred in Canadian politics since it acheived autonomy nearly a century ago, examining the institutions and processes of Canadian government and politics at the local, provincial and federal levels. It analyzes all aspects of the Canadian political system: the courts, elections, political parties, Parliament, the constitution, fiscal and political federalism, the diffusion of policies between regions, and various aspects of public policy.