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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.

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers

"We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian tasks that public and private actors will not do. While we are critical of public and private sector failures, we do not reflect enough on the credibility of the NGOs which take their place. Can we be sure that products NGOs label as child-labor free are in fact so, that the coffee labeled as 'fair trade' is farmed in sustainable ways, or that the working conditions monitored by NGOs are safe and that the wages are reasonable? Can we know that humanitarian organizations are, in fact, using our donations to alleviate human suffering rather than pursuing other goals? This book explores the problems of establishing the credibility of NGO activities as they monitor working conditions, human rights and elections and provide finance through microcredit institutions, development aid and emergency assistance"--

Antisemitism : an enduring reality / Brian Mulroney -- Law and antisemitism : the role for the state in responding to hatred / R. Roy McMurtry -- The changing dimensions of contemporary Canadian antisemitism / Morton Weinfeld -- Historical reflections on contemporary antisemitism / Steven J. Zipperstein -- Antisemitism in Western Europe today / Todd M. Endelman -- Antisemitism and anti-Zionism : a historical approach / Derek J. Penslar -- The nature and determinants of Arab attitudes towards Israel / Mark Tessler.

Antisemitism is reappearing in disturbing new ways and in unexpected strength. This resurgence is of deep concern to politicians, practitioners of law, the academic community, and to informed citizens everywhere. To address this, a scholarly conference was assembled at the University of Toronto in 2003. Contemporary Antisemitism is the result of that meeting.Editors Derek J. Penslar, Michael R. Marrus, and Janice Gross Stein, and the contributors to this volume address the following questions: is contemporary antisemitism an eerie echo of the past, or is it driven by new combinations of political, economic, and religious forces? How powerful are the anti-Jewish trends that so many have detected? And how should liberal democratic societies respond to this new threat against them? The essays map the terrain of antisemitic thought and practice, make important distinctions between expressions of antisemitism across time and space, and put various strategies of response into critical perspective.With its combination of voices from both scholarship and leadership – including Chief Justice of Ontario R. Roy McMurtry and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney – and its unique assessment of antisemitism in Canada and the struggle against it, Contemporary Antisemitism offers new perspectives on one of the world's most ancient and diffuse hatreds.