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Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront poverty, war and environmental disaster.
Before Lloyd Axworthy entered global politics, "human security" -- a philosophy calling for global responsibility to the interests of individuals rather than to the interests of the nation state or multi-national corporations -- was a controversial and unfamiliar idea. When put into action, human security led to an international ban on landmines, initiatives to curtail the use of child soldiers, and the formation of the International Criminal Court. Today, with conflict raging across the planet -- and building -- the need for a humane, secure international governance is more vital than ever. So how can Canada reject a world model dominated by U.S. policy, military force and naked self-interest? How can we rethink a global world from the perspective of people -- our security, our needs, our promise, our dreams?
Lloyd Axworthy delivers recommendations that are both practical and radical, ranging from staunch Canadian independence from the U.S. to environmental as well as political security; from rules to govern intervention when nations oppress their own citizens, to codes of conduct on arms control and war crimes.
Arresting and provocative, Navigating a New World lays out just why Canada has the skills to lead the world into a twenty-first century less nightmarish than the last, and help make the world safer and more just for us all. This is a call for action from one of Canada's most eloquent statesmen and thinkers, and is essential reading for all Canadians.
Where is the line we draw in setting out the boundaries for being responsible for others? Is it simply family and close friends? Do we stop at the frontiers of our own country? Does our conscience, our sense of right or wrong, take us as far as the crowded camps of northern Uganda, surrounded by land mines, attacked repeatedly by an army made largely of child soldiers? I believe we in Canada have a special vocation to help in the building of a more secure order. We need not be confined to our self-interest. -- from Navigating a New World
From the Hardcover edition.
Synopsis
In
Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront poverty, war and environmental disaster.
Before Lloyd Axworthy entered global politics, "human security" -- a philosophy calling for global responsibility to the interests of individuals rather than to the interests of the nation state or multi-national corporations -- was a controversial and unfamiliar idea. When put into action, human security led to an international ban on landmines, initiatives to curtail the use of child soldiers, and the formation of the International Criminal Court. Today, with conflict raging across the planet -- and building -- the need for a humane, secure international governance is more vital than ever. So how can Canada reject a world model dominated by U.S. policy, military force and naked self-interest? How can we rethink a global world from the perspective of people -- our security, our needs, our promise, our dreams?
Lloyd Axworthy delivers recommendations that are both practical and radical, ranging from staunch Canadian independence from the U.S. to environmental as well as political security; from rules to govern intervention when nations oppress their own citizens, to codes of conduct on arms control and war crimes.
Arresting and provocative, Navigating a New World lays out just why Canada has the skills to lead the world into a twenty-first century less nightmarish than the last, and help make the world safer and more just for us all. This is a call for action from one of Canada's most eloquent statesmen and thinkers, and is essential reading for all Canadians.
Where is the line we draw in setting out the boundaries for being responsible for others? Is it simply family and close friends? Do we stop at the frontiers of our own country? Does our conscience, our sense of right or wrong, take us as far as the crowded camps of northern Uganda, surrounded by land mines, attacked repeatedly by an army made largely of child soldiers? I believe we in Canada have a special vocation to help in the building of a more secure order. We need not be confined to our self-interest. -- from Navigating a New World
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Lloyd Axworthy has been a Member of Parliament and a cabinet minister in several portfolios including employment and immigration, transport and foreign affairs. He served as Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Currently he is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg and has been appointed a Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to facilitate a peaceful resolution to the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Among other awards, he has won the CARE International Humanitarian Award and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003 Lloyd Axworthy became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Canada and the World
Part I: Emma and Us
Chapter 1 -- The Road to Gulu
Part II: The Tenth Floor
Chapter 2 -- Vocational Training
Chapter 3 -- Choices and Consequences
Part III: Border Choices
Chapter 4 -- How to Make Love to a Porcupine
Chapter 5 -- The North American Condo
Part IV: Human Security
Chapter 6 -- The Ottawa Process
Chapter 7 -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chapter 8 -- Responsibility to Protect
Chapter 9 -- A New Court for a New Century
Chapter 10 -- The Crowded Global Village
Part V: The United Nations
Chapter 11 -- Rewiring the UN
Chapter 12 -- Rebirth of a Country
Part VI: Environmental Security
Chapter 13 -- The Machine in the Garden
Chapter 14 -- Kyoto and Beyond
Part VII: Searching for Survival in a World of Weapons
Chapter 15 -- Disarmament on Earth, Disarmament in Space
Part VIII: The Two Emmas
Chapter 16 -- Putting Our Ship in Order
Chapter 17 -- Navigating a New World
Notes
Index