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THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PROVINCES OF CANADA AND THE NATION OF CANADA WITH THE UNITED STATES. HE ARGUES THAT THE CANADIAN SENSE OF HAVING BEEN A VICTIM OF AMERICAN IMPERIALSISMS IS LESS HEALTHY THAN IF CANADA COULD IDENTIFY IN CANADIAN- AMERICAN RELATIONS OVER 200 YEARS A SENSE NOT OF GRIEIANCE BUT OF ANTAGONISM.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Illusion and Disillusion -- 2. The Cold War -- 3. Development of a Middle Power, 1946-50 -- 4. Collective Action: North America -- 5. Collective Action: North Atlantic -- 6. The Communist 'Monolith' -- 7. The Challenge of Korea -- 8. The New Commonwealth -- 9. The Asian Dimension -- 10. The Meaning of Alliance -- 11. The Continental Relationship -- 12. The United Nations: Diplomacy and Disarmament -- 13. The United Nations in the Fifties -- 14. The Search for Equilibrium -- Notes -- Index

Where does the humanitarian community sit in relation to continuing debates about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)? The third pillar of R2P is often seen as the practical manifestation of an older idea of humanitarian intervention, given much attention after the Rwandan genocide and Srebrenica. Many humanitarians have long been reticent about the idea of so-called humanitarian intervention and, thus, of R2P. This article examines the logic behind this reticence and explores the practical relationship between R2P and humanitarian action. In particular, it focuses on three major crises during Holmes's time as Emergency Relief Coordination – Darfur, Sri Lanka and Myanmar – and goes on to consider briefly how and why R2P has been invoked, or not, in the more recent crises of Libya and Syria. It concludes with reflections about the implications for the future.

Young people are often characterised as cyberkids in reference to an assumed intense engagement and natural affinity with the internet. This article critiques the empirical basis for such claims and explores two alternative perspectives: namely, continua of use and typologies of use. Using UK data on 12–15 year old home internet users, a series of descriptive and latent class analyses of young people's internet use is presented. Results show there is little support for cyberkid characterisations and a proposed continuum of use is also shown to not fit the data. A three-way typology of use is instead presented which suggests a third of young home internet users make only limited use of the internet and the remaining two-thirds diverge into informational and creational/communicative users. These findings are used to argue that Mannheim's notion of generational units may be a useful way to characterise young people's internet use.

While the crisis in the Kivus has been a focus of action and advocacy by the international community for decades, further conflicts characterised by massive internal and cross-border displacements have been proliferating in all four corners of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Adapted from the source document.

'Reform' is a loaded word. No matter what the line of work or whether it's in the public or private sector, it can mean different things to different people. Adapted from the source document.

Great Britain's antiterrorist strategy is described. The main national priorities are to (1) prevent the emergence of new terrorist generations by attacking terrorism's causes, (2) pursue terrorists & those who finance them, (3) protect potential targets, & (4) prepare for possible attacks. Britain also strives to oppose terrorism internationally -- eg, via the recent presidencies of the EU & of the G8 & via the promotion of international stability, cooperation, & human rights. Adapted from the source document.