Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 2004

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 2004

From Ottawa to Baghdad.(Introducing Inroads)(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... WELL BEFORE THE THE U.S.-LED "COALITION OF THE WILLING" invaded Iraq in March 2003, we had chosen two related themes for this issue of Inroads: Canada-U.S. relations and the impending transition from Jean Chretien to Paul Martin at the helm of...

The reign of Jean Chretien.(Editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... LAST SUMMER, I WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR the Annuaire du Quebec on Jean Chretien's decade-long reign. The first draft was composed on an idyllic afternoon here in East Vancouver. Beyond my kitchen's open windows were scarlet geraniums on the...

The ADQ: real achievement, uncertain future.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... Dear Inroads editors, In your most recent issue (Inroads 13, pp. 75-95), I found it extremely interesting to read the articles addressing the so-called "rise and fall of Mario Dumont's ADQ." Having become a member of the ADQ in 1999, and...

Iraq, North Korea, empire, Plato ...(Inroads listserv)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... WITH THE INVASION OF IRAQ, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AND tensions in the Korean peninsula, the Inroads listserv was frequently preoccupied with questions of war and peace in the spring and summer of 2003. On several occasions, exchanges went beyond...

Arguing Iraq.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... PRIME MINISTER CHRETIEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON MARCH 17 that Canada would not join the U.S.-led "Coalition of the Willing" seeking to depose Saddam Hussein by military force was a defining moment. To some, it was proof that...

Iraq and hegemony.(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... WE REGARD OURSELVES AS "REALISTS" IN A TRADITION OF POLITICAL analysis that extends from Thucydides, Machiavelli and Hobbes to the likes of Raymond Aron and John Mearsheimer. Thus, in arguing for the rightness of the war in Iraq, we base our...

What does realism mean anyway? A response to Larry Pratt and Leon H. Craig.(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... LARRY PRATT AND LEON CRAIG, TO THEIR credit, concede that the Ba'ath government of Iraq represented no undeterrable threat to the United States and that the United States cannot, and will not, bring democracy to Iraq (something they don't...

Geert van Kesteren: photojournalist abroad.(Iraq)(Interview)
January 1, 2004... GEERT VAN KESTEREN IS AN AWARDwinning Dutch photojournalist based in Amsterdam. He and his wife Conny Luhulima-whose family comes from Maluka in Indonesia--have two children. "I work abroad," he says. "That way I keep my private and...

Iraq, state sovereignty and human rights.(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... UNLIKE LARRY PRATT AND LEON CRAIG, WHEN THE WAR IN IRAQ was still a future prospect, I supported the government of Canada's decision (inconsistently applied and incoherently defended as it was) to stay out of the U.S.-led "coalition of the...

The requirements of morality and politics: a response to Gareth Morley.(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT CANADIANS dislike the idea and practice of power politics. Like pious puritans who prefer not to acknowledge the realities of sex, Canadians avoid the subjects of power, national security and war. Instead, they place their...

Quebecers: a pacifist people?(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... ARE QUEBECERS A FUNDAMENTALLY PEACEFUL, EVEN PACIFIST, PEOPLE? At the height of last winter's mobilization against the impending war in Iraq, when despite frigid temperatures the streets of a number of Quebec cities were filled for several...

Australia's great debate.(Iraq)
January 1, 2004... On OCTOBER 12, 2002, BOMBS EXPLODED IN TWO CLUBS IN KUTA, BALI, Indonesia, killing 202 people, 89 of them Australian. Soon afterward, the taped voice of Osama bin Laden suggested that Australians had brought this on themselves by supporting the...

From one ex-finance minister to another: advice for Paul Martin as he takes office as Prime Minister.(Paul Martin)
January 1, 2004... PAUL MARTIN'S ASCENT TO THE PRIME MINISTER'S JOB COMES AT A time of tremendous opportunity Canada's fiscal strength is the envy of other G8 countries, we have the most openly federalist Quebec Premier in recent memory, and the Canadian public...

Canada: a different North American society?(Canada/U.S.)
January 1, 2004... An IMPORTANT PART OF THE ETERNAL CANADIAN IDENTITY DEBATE IS about what makes us different from the United States. We are on the same North American continent. Canada is party to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and 87 per cent...

America North: a different Canadian society?(Canada/U.S.)
January 1, 2004... THE GREAT CIRCLE ROUTE FROM THE University of British Columbia to the Sorbonne passes over Ellesmere Island and Greenland, but traverses no part of the United States; nor does the route, after leaving Lotusland, ever again come near a Canadian...

Devolution and language governance in Wales.(Language Lessons)
January 1, 2004... WITH THE WELSH LANGUAGE ACT 1993, WELSH WAS GIVEN OFFICIAL status in Wales. This status was further strengthened with the Government of Wales Act 1998, which confirmed that the language is an integral part of Welsh identity. With devolution and...

George Grant got it wrong: coping with Uncle Sam in the 21st century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Stephen Clarkson, Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 534 pages. Kent Roach, September 11: Consequences for Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University...

Why do they hate US? Unilateralism and the rise of anti-Americanism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Daniel Bensaid, ed., L'autre Am&ique: les Americains contre l'etat de guerre. Paris: Edition Textuel, 2003. 238 pages. Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin, America is Back: les nouveaux cesars du pentagone. Paris: Bayard, 203. 226 pages. ...

Welcoming the nice barbarian invaders.(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... The Barbarian Invasions. Canada/France, 2003. Written and directed by Denys Arcand. Starring Remy Girard (Remy), Stephane Rousseau (Sebastien), Dorothee Berryman (Louise), Marie-Josee Craze (Nathalie). AS I WRITE, DENYS ARCAND'S FILM The...