Canada and the Middle East : in theory and practice / Paul Heinbecker and Bessma Momani, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heinbecker, Paul, 1941-

Momani, Bessma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

International relations.

Canada--Foreign relations--Middle East.

Canada.

Middle East--Foreign relations--Canada.

Middle East.

Canada--Relations--Middle East.

Middle East--Relations--Canada.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

ix, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2007]

Summary:

provides a unique perspective on one of the world's most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canadian policy practitioners, diplomats, and academics who have been 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, both academics and former diplomats, 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. By providing a background to Canada's interests and role in the region, 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.

Contents:

1 Canada and the Middle East: Ambivalence or Engagement? / Paul Heinbecker, Bessma Momani 1

2 Practitioners' Perspectives on Canada-Middle East Relations / Michael Bell, Michael Molloy, David Sultan, Sallama Shaker 7

3 Applying Canadian Principles to Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East / Nathan C. Funk 25

4 Talking One Talk, Walking Another: Norm Entrepreneurship and Canada's Foreign Policy in the Middle East / Marie-Joëlle Zahar 45

5 Canada's Role in the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process / Rex Brynen 73

6 Canadian Interests and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East / Janine A. Clark 91

7 Promoting Civil Society Advocacy in the Middle East and At Home: Non-Governmental Organizations, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Middle East Working Group, 1991-2001 / Paul Kingston 117

8 The International Development Research Centre and the Middle East: Issues and Research / Bruce Muirhead, Ron Harpelle 145

9 Canada's Economic Interests in the Middle East / Bessma Momani, Agata Antkiewicz 161

10 Canada's Jewish and Arab Communities and Canadian Foreign Policy / Brent E. Sasley, Tami Amanda Jacoby 185

11 Inland Refugee Claimants from the Middle East and Humanitarianism in Canadian Foreign Policy / Nergis Canefe 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781554580248

1554580242

OCLC:

166372132