Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2005

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2005

Responding to the International Policy Statement.
December 22, 2005... Canada's International Policy Statement: A Role of Pride and Influence in the World was tabled by the Government of Canada early in 2005 in five basic sections: Overview, Diplomacy, Defence, Development, and Commerce. Together with the 2004...

The Military Balance 2005 * 2006, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, publ. by Rutledge Journals, 2005, ISBN 0-415-37393-X, 448 pages.(Book Notice)
December 22, 2005... The Military Balance 2005 * 2006, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, publ. by Rutledge Journals, 2005, ISBN 0-415-37393-X, 448 pages. IISS Members will receive both hard copy and online versions. Subscriptions can be...

The Military Balance 2005 * 2006 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 169 countries.(Book Notice)
December 22, 2005... The Military Balance 2005 * 2006 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 169 countries. The book is a region-by-region analysis of the major military and economic trends and developments affecting defence...

The Military Balance 2005 * 2006 contains an assessment of the way in which contemporary warfare has altered the professional debate.(Book Notice)
December 22, 2005... The Military Balance 2005 * 2006 contains an assessment of the way in which contemporary warfare has altered the professional debate on the so-called 'revolution in military affairs' and 'military transformation' issues.

Canada's largest military contractors in 2004.
December 22, 2005... In 2004 Canada's 10 largest military contractors sold over $2.9-billion in equipment and services to Canadian and foreign armed forces. According to public data compiled by Project Ploughshares, 2004 military sales for most of the top companies...

Canadian foreign policy in Haiti.
December 22, 2005... Since early 2004 the Canadian government has again made Haiti a key country for Canadian foreign policy. The recently released foreign policy report, Canada's International Policy Statement: A Role of Pride and Influence in the World,...

SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, publ. by Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-928401-6, c. 840 pages, $150.00US. The 36th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyzes key developments in 2004 in...

Civilian police in peace support operations.
December 22, 2005... Increasingly, policymakers are recognizing the importance of civilian police officers (CivPol) in contemporary peace support operations (PSOs). During the past decade civilian police have constituted 10-20 per cent of all UN personnel deployed...

Does the Pentagon now doubt the missile defence system it wanted Canada to endorse?
December 22, 2005... Canada's decision to forgo direct involvement in the US ballistic missile defence system (BMD) could yet be vindicated by the Pentagon itself. This country's flirtation with BMD brought us close to direct participation in the ground-based,...

E-resources on human security.(Human Security Centre)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... The Human Security Centre, part of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, seeks to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, and educators. This...

Funding cut for the bunker buster.
December 22, 2005... For the second year in a row, US congressional funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) program has been cut. The RNEP, commonly known as the 'bunker buster', has received widespread criticism from both Republicans and Democrats...

A report on the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.
December 22, 2005... The First Committee of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament and International Security meets every year for four or five weeks in October, after the United Nations General Assembly General Debate. Here we provide updates on debates and...

A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia, Ed. Festus B Aboagye and Alhaji M S Bah, publ. by Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa, 2005, ISBN 1-919913-83-1,...