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Part of a roundtable discussion held in San Francisco in 2008 at International Studies Association Annual Conference that identifies the gap between policymakers and academics via autobiographical notes from several distinguished scholars. In this section, Janice Gross Stein targets the unavoidable risks involved when social scientists attempt to advance policy. Her argument that corruption is unavoidable and scholars who are cavalier enough to attempt what she terms 'evolutionary hubris' must consider the option of abandoning their position if they admit that their ultimate policymaking decisions opposes or violates their moral principles. T. Cabrera

Alexander George made a seminal contribution to theories of preventive diplomacy, crisis management, deterrence, and coercive diplomacy. Although he made his contribution in the highly structured environment of the Cold War, his analysis of the close connections between positive and negative inducements, the importance of interests in shaping outcomes, and the dangers of threat‐based strategies as substitutes for policy speaks to the central challenges of contemporary global politics.

A security regime is an uneasy compromise where the relationship among the parties is generally undefined, limited in scope, & transitional. The relationship is undefined, because the parties are usually former adversaries who, for the moment, do not think of war as a feasible or practical, or, under some conditions, even a possible instrument. Yet they are far from being allies. A security regime differs in important ways from an alliance or a security community. A security regime is also limited. What happens inside the regime is only a part of what happens in the larger relationship. Participation in a regime does not imply clear behavioral expectations outside the security arena. Finally, the parties to a security regime are usually in a transitional relationship; although the parties have moved away from a full-scale adversarial relationship, where they are going is less clear. Security regimes do not develop in a linear sequence to become 'security communities'. Adapted from the source document.

With Canadian troops now committed until 2011, The Unexpected War exposes the poverty of Canadian foreign policy, arguing that Canada's various military missions in Afghanistan have been ad hoc in nature and made on the basis of political calculations - often flawed - about Canadian–American relations. Drawing upon interviews with key decision-makers and advisors, and a first-hand account by a former Defense Ministry insider, the book offers a gripping account of how Canada became embroiled in a new kind of war - fighting insurgency in a failed state.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Street Protests and Fantasy Parks -- 2 The Global Entertainment Economy -- 3 Transnationalism, Diasporic Communities, and Changing Identity: Implications for Canadian Citizenship Policy -- 4 Civil Society Activism on the World Wide Web: The Case of the Anti- MAI Lobby -- 5 Communication and Globalization: A Challenge for Public Policy -- 6 The State As Place amid Shifting Spaces -- Appendix A Posting to the MAI-NOT Listserv -- Appendix B Global Communication Policy Environment -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.