Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2000

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2000

Humanitarian intervention: a review of literature. NATO's `humanitarian war' in Kosovo has brought to the fore the longstanding legal, political and more debate surrounding humanitarian intervention ...
December 1, 2000... The following is an excerpt from a discussion paper prepared for the Ploughshares Roundtable on Humanitarian Intervention. A copy of the complete paper will be available from Project Ploughshares in January, 2001. Introduction The...

Refocusing Canadian nuclear arms control and disarmament policy.
December 1, 2000... Canada should prepare to advise a new administration in Washington on human security, multilateralism versus unilateralism, engagement versus isolation, and the crucial role of arms control in national security policy. Canada stands at a...

Running guns: the global black market in small arms.
December 1, 2000... Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms Edited by Lora Lumpe, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2000 Zed Books, London, 256 pp (Pb US $25.50, Hb $69.95) With planning underway at the United Nations for a...

Towards a comprehensive and proactive security policy: even if it worked perfectly, BMD could not protect against bombs in a suitcase, on a truck, or sailboat.
December 1, 2000... Some have argued that we can never disinvent nuclear weapons and thus will have to live with them as long as civilization exists. But nobody has disinvented cannibalism either, we simply abhor it. We must equally abhor the thought of...

Top Canadian contractors pursue global arms markets.
December 1, 2000... For the third year in succession, General Motors of Canada's Diesel Division in London, Ontario emerged as Canada's largest military contractor in 1999, based on military sales data compiled by Project Ploughshares. The industrial giant gained...

Implementing the global nuclear disarmament agenda: a challenge to NATO.
December 1, 2000... Canada should give active leadership internationally to the elaboration and full and timely implementation of the global nuclear disarmament agenda. In September, The Simons Foundation in partnership with Project Ploughshares convened a...

Somalia: a new beginning?
December 1, 2000... Until recently, Somalia had been without a central government since the January 1991 expulsion of the late dictator General Mohamed Siad Barre. A state with a relatively homogenous population, Somalia's decade-long authority vacuum was created...

Whose world is it anyway? Civil society, the United Nations and the Multilateral force.
December 1, 2000... Whose World is it Anyway? Civil Society, the United Nations and the Multilateral Future, edited by John W. Foster with Anita Anand, 1999, Ottawa: The United Nations Association, Canada, 575 pp., $24.95. Whose World is it Anyway? is a timely...