Canadian Foreign Policy, 1977-1992: Selected Speeches and Documents

✍ Scribed by A.E. Blanchette

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Carleton Library Series; 183
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume covers the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico; Canada's policy towards South Africa; growing peacekeeping efforts around the world; and common international problems such as immigration, drug trafficking, and the impact of trade, aid and human rights on foreign policy. Speeches are by political personalities such as Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, Barbara McDougall, MacDonald and Brian Mulroney.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Documents
I: THE UNITED NATIONS
A. IMPROVING THE UN SYSTEM
B. PEACEKEEPING
C. REGIONAL CONFLICTS: AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, MIDDLE EAST, GULF WAR, CENTRAL AMERICA
D. HUMAN RIGHTS
II: SECURITY AND PEACE
A. THE CRUMBLING OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE
B. BASIC DEFENCE POLICY
C. ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
D. THE TRUDEAU PEACE INITIATIVE
E. MUTUAL AND BALANCED FORCE REDUCTIONS
F. CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE
G. MEMBERSHIP IN NATO
III: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
A. THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
B. THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
C. FOREIGN INVESTMENT
D. ENERGY
E. DEFENCE
F. ENVIRONMENT
G. FISHERIES
H. ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY
IV: THE FAR EAST
A. CANADA AND THE PACIFIC RIM
B. JAPAN
C. CHINA
D. HONG KONG
E. KOREA
F. ASEAN
V: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND TRADE POLICY
A. BASIC ECONOMIC POLICY: THE TOKYO AND URUGUAY ROUNDS
B. BASIC TRADE POLICY
C. THE ECONOMIC SUMMITS
D. COUNTERTRADE
E. THE CANADIAN DOLLAR SINCE 1977
VI: NORTH-SOUTH ISSUES
A. BASIC AID POLICY: STRUCTURE AND FOCUS OF CIDA
B. AID AND TRADE
C. UNCTAD
D. NARCOTICS
E. THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
F. THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN
G. SOUTH AFRICA
H. NAMIBIA
VII: THE ENVIRONMENT
A. LAW OF THE SEA
B. FUR SEALS
C. OVERFISHING
D. OUTERSPACE: BASIC POLICY - INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
E. PROTECTION OF THE OZONE LAYER
F. THE EARTH SUMMIT: RIO DE JANEIRO, 1992
VIII: IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES
A. BASIC IMMIGRATION POLICY
B. BASIC REFUGEE POLICY
C. TERRORISM
D. ARRANGEMENTS WITH QUEBEC
IX: THE PROVINCES AND FOREIGN POLICY
A. BASIC FEDERAL POLICY
B. ONTARIO'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
C. QUEBEC'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
D. LA FRANCOPHONIE
E. PROVINCIAL AGENCIES ABROAD
F. FEDERAL/PROVINCIAL COORDINATION OF EXPORTS
G. ALBERTA AND OPEC
H. MEECH LAKE 1987
APPENDICES:
APPENDIX 1: THE REORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: 1982
APPENDIX 2: THE FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW 1985-1986
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