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      Canada, Missile Defence, and the Pursuit of World Order

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      Date
      2012-05-19
      Author
      Macfarlane, Eric
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Although the Canada-United States (US) defence relationship is unparalleled in the international system in terms of cooperation and interoperability, Canada’s responses to offers of participation in two US missile defence programs in recent times confused many observers. This thesis seeks to provide an explanation as to why Canadians were reluctant to engage in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1985 and the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program in 2005. It searches for a deeper explanation than offered thus far by scholars. Phillipe Lagassé and Patrick Lennox have both argued that the most prominent factor in Canada’s rejection of these two US missile defence initiatives is the evident support Canadians exhibit for arms control and strategic stability. The thesis builds on the work of Lagassé and Lennox but goes further by suggesting that Canadian anxieties related to how these programs would impact arms control and strategic stability can be traced to Canadians’ support of internationalism and, in particular, the tenet of internationalism that, according to Kim Richard Nossal, Stephane Roussel and Stephane Paquin, emphasizes the pursuit of world order.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Political Studies
      Program
      Political Science
      Supervisor
      Story, Donald
      Committee
      Michelmann, Hans; Deonandan, Kalowatie; Hibbert, Neil; Smith-Norris, Martha
      Copyright Date
      March 2012
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2012-03-389
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      Keyword 1
      Missile Defence
      Keyword 2
      Canadian Foreign Policy Keyword 3
      Internationalism Keyword 4
      Canadian Defence Keyword 5
      North American Defence Keyword 6
      Arms control
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