Kim Richard Nossal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 728913 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kim Richard Nossal |
| NOMBRES | Kim Richard |
| APELLIDO | Nossal |
| FIRMA | NOSSAL K R |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6453-5854 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 358 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis, commentary, and state practice. The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative to historicization. While…
Dreaming in TechnicolorTM? Donald J. Trump and the annexation of Canada
Canada in the Long Shadow of America First
The America First agenda in the United States poses a major threat to Canada America First is marked by an enthusiasm for protectionism; a retreat from global engagement that echoes the isolationism of the 1930s; a rejection of global governance; an indifference towards a global leadership role for the United States; an embrace of illiberal and authoritarian leaders and a concomitant disdain for America's traditional friends and allies in the Wes…
Canada and Covid-19
This article explores the geopolitical implications of COVID-19 for Canada. It argues that the pandemic accelerated changes that were already underway as a result of the Trump presidency. It traces the spread of the virus in Canada and measures taken to control it. Canada's response was markedly different to that of the US and the geostrategic fissures have deepened. The pandemic has played a major role in transforming thinking about U.S./Canada …
Master of Persuasion
The North Atlantic anchor
This paper surveys Canada’s ambivalence towards the Asia Pacific, and seeks to put that ambivalence into the broader context of the dominant strategic perspective in Canada that has privileged, and continues to privilege, a North Atlantic focus for Canadian foreign and defence policy. It argues that Canada’s laggardly approach to Asia Pacific diplomacy can be best explained by the widespread perception among Canadians—and their government—that th…
Canada’s Department of External Affairs, vol. III
The benefits of foreign policy bipartisanship revisited
Although foreign policy bipartisanship in Westminster systems is often heralded as a normative good, there is an emerging scholarship which suggests that a bipartisan approach to foreign and defence policy comes with considerable costs. This article seeks to join that debate. It does so by examining two contemporary foreign/defence policy issues in Canadian politics: the mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014 and the efforts to replace the CF-1…
Norman Hillmer O.D. Skelton
Old habits and new directions indeed
Revisiting Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits and New Directions, Andrew Cooper’s 1997 textbook on Canadian foreign policy, in 2014 makes for compelling reading, not least because the subtitle is the perfect leitmotif to describe the considerable differences in Canada’s foreign policy between then and now. This review article argues that the main themes in Canada’s foreign policy that Cooper surveys so well are indeed regarded by the Conservativ…
The heart of the matter
There are two problems with the claim by Miguel de Larrinaga and Mark B. Salter that Canadian critical security studies is ‘at the heart of the international relations community in Canada’. The first is empirical: the international relations community in Canada is in fact marked by a diversity of intellectual approaches, with no approach that comes anywhere close to being hegemonic. The second problem is normative: Canadian IR scholars have shown…
The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
There is a good reason why the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is so often described as the arms deal of the century. In a report published on the last day of 2010, the Pentagon estimated lifetime operating and sustainment costs for the US F-35 Aeet-then projected at 2,443 units, not counting the prototypes-at US$1.45 trillion.1 Cost analyses of this type are always much-debated: How many units will be sold in total? How does one define lifetim…
Late Learners
Looking at the process that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper tried to use to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 Hornet fleet with 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, it is hard to disagree with Andrew Coyne's assessment that the acquisition program was fiasco from top to bottom, combining lapses of professional ethics, ministerial responsibility and democratic accountability into spectacular il…
Carter F. Hanson, Emigration, Nation, Vocation
End of an Era? Anti‐Americanism in the Australian Labor Party
Anti‐Americanism, sometimes called the “last acceptable prejudice”, is a common phenomenon in the modern era. This paper explores the ebb and flow of anti‐Americanism in the Australian Labor Party in the post‐Second World War period and argues that while at times it was reasonable or proportionate, at others such criticism became unreasonable, disproportionate and therefore prejudicial. When this occurs the Australia‐US alliance can become strain…
John W. Holmes
For close to 50 years, John W Holmes (1910-1988) played a leading role in the development and interpretation of Canada and its place in the world. Long-time students of Canadian foreign policy still recall his remarkable abilities as a diplomat, essayist, historian, commentator, university professor, and mentor. Nevertheless, today, Holmes's name no longer resonates with the average Canadian as it may have in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was a fr…
The contradictions of regionalism in North America
Students of regionalism almost reflexively include North America in their lists of regions in contemporary global politics. Inevitably students of regionalism point to the integrative agreements between the countries of North America: the two free trade agreements that transformed the continental economy beginning in the late 1980s – the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement that came into force on 1 January 1989, and the North American Free Trade Agree…
Odd man in, odd man out
Richard A. Higgott is a Professor of Politics and International Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Warwick. He was Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and is currently Director of the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation. He is the editor of The Pacific Review. Kim Richard Nossal is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Inte…
Defense Policy and the Atmospherics of Canada-U.S. Relations
Towards an Explicative Understanding of Strategic Culture
Strategic culture remains a highly contested but potentially vital concept in the analysis of security policy. This paper contributes to the strategic culture debate by using the cases of Australia and Canada to assess the utility of strategic culture as an explanatory tool. Much of the debate over strategic culture hinges on the proper relationship between the ideational and material variables in analyzing a country's security policy, and the at…
Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy 40 Years On
In 1965, James G. Eayrs was asked to give the Alan B. Plaunt memorial lectures.1 lectures had been inaugurated in 1958, and were intended to focus on broad issues in Canadian political life. Eayrs would have been a logical person to invite to give the 1965 lectures. A well-known academic in the department of political economy at the University of Toronto, he had published a number of works on Canadian foreign policy, including a volume in the Can…
Blowback
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why…
A Question of Balance
In 1998, Tom Pocklington's presidential address examined what he believed was a progressive displacement of teaching by research in Canadian political science departments. The purpose of this address is to examine Pocklington's contentions eight years on, after dramatic increases in research funds flowing to Canadian universities. As research funds become more important to the financial health of Canadian universities, we have seen the growth in …
Constitutional constraints on the international activities of non-central governments
DOES THE CONSTITUTIONAL REGIME established to govern relations between different levels of government in a political community predict whether the non-central governments1 in that polity will be active international actors? Most students of the international activities of non-central governments point to the importance of the structural constraints imposed by constitutional regimes. However, there is also a widespread recognition that whether a n…
Ear Candy
Kim Richard Nossal, Ear Candy: Canadian Policy toward Humanitarian Intervention and Atrocity Crimes in Darfur, International Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4, Africa: Towards Durable Peace (Autumn, 2005), pp. 1017-1032
International sanctions as international punishment
Much of the contemporary literature on the utility of international sanctions approaches the apparent riddle of why sanctions are embraced so eagerly when they are supposedly such an “ineffective” tool of statecraft by focusing on the instrumental and rational purposes of sanctions. As a result, one purpose that does not always lend itself to a rational means-end calculus—the purpose of punishment—tends to be overlooked or, more commonly, dismiss…
The International Politics of Liminality
1997). The International Politics of Liminality: Relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 169-186
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
Journal Article Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict Get access Andrew Fenton Cooper, Andrew Fenton Cooper ANDREW FENTON COOPER is associate professor, department of political science. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard A. Higgott, Richard A. Higgott RICHARD A. HIGGOTT is reader, department of international relations. Research Scho…
The politics of Canadian foreign policy
Human Security and the New Diplomacy
Written by diplomatic practitioners, Human Security and the New Diplomacy is a straightforward account of challenges already overcome and the prospect for further progress. From the evolution of peace-keeping, to peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention, war-affected children, international humanitarian law, the International Criminal Court, the economic agendas of conflict, transnational crime, and the emergence of connectivity and a global civi…
Death of distance or tyranny of distance? The Internet, deterritorialization, and the anti-globalization movement in Australia
This is a post-print of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Pacific Review © 2001 Taylor & Francis. The Pacific Review is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
Pinchpenny Diplomacy
ASPIRITED DEBATE HAS EMERGED IN CANADA IN THE 1990S IN BOTH the academic and the policy communities about the nature of Canadian foreign and defence policies in the post-cold war era. The debate focuses on how Canadian foreign and defence policies should be characterized; the doctrinal bases (if any) that underlie contemporary foreign policy in Canada; and, of course, the appropriate approach to policy. Given the traditional concerns of Canadians…
Towards an Explicative Understanding of Strategic Culture
Strategic culture remains a highly contested but potentially vital concept in the analysis of security policy. This paper contributes to the strategic culture debate by using the cases of Australia and Canada to assess the utility of strategic culture as an explanatory tool. Much of the debate over strategic culture hinges on the proper relationship between the ideational and material variables in analyzing a country's security policy, and the at…
Diplomatic Departures
Pinchpenny Diplomacy
Rain Dancing
Mixed Motives Revisited
The heuristic model commonly used to explain Canada's interests in development assistance is the mixed-motives approach. These motives are assumed to be philanthropic, economic, and politico-strategic, though there is little agreement among students of Canadian development assistance about which of the three is the most important. The purpose of this article is to examine the orthodox model; it concludes that these motives have little utility in …
Bureaucratic politics and the new fighter aircraft decisions
According to the bureaucratic politics approach to policy making, an appreciation of competition and conflict among bureaucrats is considered to be critical for an understanding of decision outcomes. In this paper, we employ the bureaucratic politics model to assess the outcomes of the initial phase of the Canadian government's new fighter aircraft (NFA) program, which began in March 1977 with cabinet approval of the procurement and ended in Apri…
Parliament and the Democratization of Foreign Policy
There is little agreement about the degree to which parliamentary institutions can help overcome the democratic deficit in global governance. While much of the literature on the European Union's democratic deficit focuses on reforming parliament, most commentary on the subject in global governance and foreign policy holds out little hope that national parliaments could be used to mitigate the effects of the internationalization of public policy. …
The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
There is a good reason why the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is so often described as the arms deal of the century. In a report published on the last day of 2010, the Pentagon estimated lifetime operating and sustainment costs for the US F-35 Aeet-then projected at 2,443 units, not counting the prototypes-at US$1.45 trillion.1 Cost analyses of this type are always much-debated: How many units will be sold in total? How does one define lifetim…
Odd man in, odd man out
Richard A. Higgott is a Professor of Politics and International Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Warwick. He was Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and is currently Director of the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation. He is the editor of The Pacific Review. Kim Richard Nossal is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Inte…
Sanctions as a gendered instrument of statecraft
Even though a vibrant literature on gender in international relations has developed over the last decade, students of international sanctions have not explored sanctions from a gendered perspective: analyses tend to have been either gender-neutral or gender-blind. By the same token, however, feminist scholars of international politics have not included sanctions in their empirical investigations. This article examines sanctions from a gendered pe…
Canada's Foreign Policy
A Question of Balance
In 1998, Tom Pocklington's presidential address examined what he believed was a progressive displacement of teaching by research in Canadian political science departments. The purpose of this address is to examine Pocklington's contentions eight years on, after dramatic increases in research funds flowing to Canadian universities. As research funds become more important to the financial health of Canadian universities, we have seen the growth in …
Late Learners
Looking at the process that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper tried to use to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 Hornet fleet with 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, it is hard to disagree with Andrew Coyne's assessment that the acquisition program was fiasco from top to bottom, combining lapses of professional ethics, ministerial responsibility and democratic accountability into spectacular il…
Blowback
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why…
Diplomatic Departures
CANADAEdited by Nelson Michaud and Kim Richard NossalVancouver: UBC Press, 2001, xviii, 326pp, $85.00, ISBN 0774808640It is a truism that no period in history is as mysterious as the recent past - colours but not images, facts sensed but beyond immediate recall, just outside the useful grasp of memory. In terms of history there is often a bridging operation, in which memoirs or authorized biographies carry us to the point where archives are opene…
Roland goes corporate
Mercenaries are important non‐state transnational actors in contemporary world politics. However much they might be ignored by students of international politics, they can and do have an impact. The purpose of this article is to survey mercenaries and mercenary armies as transnational actors, both historically and in the contemporary international system. I will argue that the common perception of mercenary armies as Soldier‐of‐Fortune bands is h…
Analyzing the Domestic Sources of Canadian Foreign Policy
The International Joint Commission Seventy Years On
Chungking Prism
Astigmatism in the diplomatic eye1 may often have far-reaching consequences. Nevile Henderson's ambassadorship in Berlin during the 1930s had a direct effect on the British policy of appeasement; Patrick Hurley's mission to China in 1944-5 was to shape the course of postwar Sino-American tension and hostility. More commonly, however, intelligence failure in the field caused by a blurring of vision will not leave such seismic marks on internationa…
Guerrilla
Journal Article Guerrilla: A Historical and Critical Study Get access Guerrilla: A Historical and Critical Study. By Walter Laqueur. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1977. Boston: Little, Brown. 1976. 462 pp. £8.95. $17.50. Kim Richard Nossal Kim Richard Nossal 1McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3, July 1977, Pages 451–452, https:…
Canadian Foreign Policy, 1955-1965
This volume documents the decade in which Canada's influence on world affairs was at its apex, and contains speeches and writings of Lester B. Pearson, Sydney Smith, Howard C. Green and Paul Martin
Canada's Foreign Policy
The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945
Allison through the (Ottawa) Looking Glass
The major proponents of the bureaucratic politics approach to the study of foreign policy making — Graham T. Allison and Morton H. Halperin — contend that the paradigm developed from the United States foreign policy making system can be applied in other national contexts. This article assesses this contention. Despite indications that both the context and structure of Canadian foreign policy making in the 1970s would suggest the applicability of …
Does the Electoral Cycle in the United States Affect Relations with Canada
Kim Richard Nossal, Does the Electoral Cycle in the United States Affect Relations with Canada?, International Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, The Canada-United States Relationship (Winter, 1980/1981), pp. 208-227
Uncertain Years
Executive Power and Committee Autonomy in the Canadian House of Commons
L'étude des relations entre le pouvoir exécutif et le pouvoir législatif est souvent ardue parce qu'il est difficile d'évaluer le pouvoir ou l'influence. Nous pouvons contourner une telle difficulté en étudiant, par exemple, l'autorité de l'exécutif sur les nominations des parlementaires aux différents postes de cadres au sein du Parlement. Naturellement si le gouvernement maîtrise parfaitement ces nominations l'autonomie du Parlement est plutôt …
Bureaucratic politics and the new fighter aircraft decisions
According to the bureaucratic politics approach to policy making, an appreciation of competition and conflict among bureaucrats is considered to be critical for an understanding of decision outcomes. In this paper, we employ the bureaucratic politics model to assess the outcomes of the initial phase of the Canadian government's new fighter aircraft (NFA) program, which began in March 1977 with cabinet approval of the procurement and ended in Apri…
The International Joint Commission Seventy Years On
An Acceptance of Paradox
Tensions in Canada's Foreign Policy
Analyzing the Domestic Sources of Canadian Foreign Policy
Peacekeeping in Vietnam
The Canadian Political Science Association 1987 Programme Committee/Association canadienne de science politique 1987 Comité du programme
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Parliament and Canadian Foreign Policy
A Turning Point in U.S.-Canadian Relations
Mixed Motives Revisited
The heuristic model commonly used to explain Canada's interests in development assistance is the mixed-motives approach. These motives are assumed to be philanthropic, economic, and politico-strategic, though there is little agreement among students of Canadian development assistance about which of the three is the most important. The purpose of this article is to examine the orthodox model; it concludes that these motives have little utility in …
New Directions in the Study of Foreign Policy
The politics of Canadian foreign policy
The Imperial Congress
International sanctions as international punishment
Much of the contemporary literature on the utility of international sanctions approaches the apparent riddle of why sanctions are embraced so eagerly when they are supposedly such an “ineffective” tool of statecraft by focusing on the instrumental and rational purposes of sanctions. As a result, one purpose that does not always lend itself to a rational means-end calculus—the purpose of punishment—tends to be overlooked or, more commonly, dismiss…
Knowing When to Fold
The symbolic purposes of sanctions
Academic and political debates about international sanctions tend to focus on the instrumental purposes of these measures—their ability to hurt a target state sufficiently to cause it to change its behaviour. By contrast, the symbolic purposes of sanctions are commonly assumed not to be as important. Such assumptions are appropriate for states which have the capabilities necessary to achieve these ends—great powers or regional powers targetting v…
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