David B Dewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1187033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Dewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewitt |
| SIGNATURE | DEWITT D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific
Between 1989 and 2005, Canadian academics and officials initiated significant programs to promote security—both cooperative and human—in Asia. The distinctive features were Canadian leadership, resource commitments, and ambitions to advance inclusive “track-two” dialogue, broaden the scope of security discussions beyond conventional defence matters, and advance Canada's role in the region. This is a chronicle of two major Canadian initiatives, th…
Awol
Our focus is on Canadian defence and security activities in the Asia Pacific arena between 1990 and 2015. While governments have asserted the growing primacy of the Asia Pacific, we ask the following: What does Canada’s recent military and security record tell us about the policies and operational aspects of Canadian engagement? How might we assess these in comparison with Ottawa’s declared importance of the Asia Pacific? What might this tell us …
The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law
The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's supervisory role in the international refugee protection regime examines the part played by key institutions, organizations and actors in the supervision of international ref…
National Defence vs. Foreign Affairs
David Dewitt is professor of political science and director of York's Centre for International and Security Studies. Jeff Plante is an advanced doctoral student in the Graduate Program in History, York University, and a research assistant for this project. We are pleased to acknowledge the financial support of the SSHRC and the indirect support of YCISS and the Security and Defence Forum, Department of National Defence. The Faculty of Graduate St…
Directions in Canada's International Security Policy
INTRODUCTION: DEFENCE AND SECURITYFor some time now, Canadians have not been overly concerned about national defence.(f.1) They have felt no threat of imminent invasion; they have not seen their core values or institutions under challenge by some foreign, or even some domestic, force; they have not been coerced into domestic or foreign policies inimical to their preferences.(f.2) Indeed, the idea of national defence seems to be of decreasing rele…
The Middle Kingdom Meets the Middle East
Fiscal Burden Sharing
The authors argue that a reformulated system of refugee protection must proceed using a distributive-developmental framework for fiscal burden sharing. Such a framework would have to appeal to the national security interests of donors, rather than to humanitarian or altruistic motives. The funds provided should be tied to concrete, time-specified goals which will contribute to the well being of refugees. They argue that this approach should be pu…
Proliferation management in South‐East Asia
Canada's International Security Policy
Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security
(1994). Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security. The Pacific Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Building a New Global Order
The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War i…
Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Third World
Regional Security in the Third World Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Conflict Management in the Middle East
The International Game of PowerPeter Bernholz Berlin
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Canada as a Principal Power
Western Europe's Middle East Diplomacy and the United States
Canada as a Principal Power
The Middle East at the Crossroads
Part 1 Regional forces: OPEC - past, present and future and the defence of civilized commentary - civilization and defence against further reflections on terrorism and the defence of civilized values political implications of fundamentalist Islam. Part 2 External powers: Accommodation of agression? an examination of some of the factors shaping Soviet foreign policy in the 1980s/89 American foreign policy in the Middle East - a study in changing p…
Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security
(1994). Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security. The Pacific Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Conflict Management in the Middle East
Canada as a Principal Power
Building a New Global Order
The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War i…
Regional Security in the Third World Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Third World
Canada as a Principal Power
Awol
Our focus is on Canadian defence and security activities in the Asia Pacific arena between 1990 and 2015. While governments have asserted the growing primacy of the Asia Pacific, we ask the following: What does Canada’s recent military and security record tell us about the policies and operational aspects of Canadian engagement? How might we assess these in comparison with Ottawa’s declared importance of the Asia Pacific? What might this tell us …
The Middle Kingdom Meets the Middle East
Proliferation management in South‐East Asia
Canada as a Principal Power
The Middle East at the Crossroads
Part 1 Regional forces: OPEC - past, present and future and the defence of civilized commentary - civilization and defence against further reflections on terrorism and the defence of civilized values political implications of fundamentalist Islam. Part 2 External powers: Accommodation of agression? an examination of some of the factors shaping Soviet foreign policy in the 1980s/89 American foreign policy in the Middle East - a study in changing p…
Canada as a Principal Power
Western Europe's Middle East Diplomacy and the United States
Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Third World
Regional Security in the Third World Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Conflict Management in the Middle East
The International Game of PowerPeter Bernholz Berlin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security
(1994). Common, comprehensive, and cooperative security. The Pacific Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Building a New Global Order
The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War i…
Canada's International Security Policy
Fiscal Burden Sharing
The authors argue that a reformulated system of refugee protection must proceed using a distributive-developmental framework for fiscal burden sharing. Such a framework would have to appeal to the national security interests of donors, rather than to humanitarian or altruistic motives. The funds provided should be tied to concrete, time-specified goals which will contribute to the well being of refugees. They argue that this approach should be pu…
Proliferation management in South‐East Asia
The Middle Kingdom Meets the Middle East
Directions in Canada's International Security Policy
INTRODUCTION: DEFENCE AND SECURITYFor some time now, Canadians have not been overly concerned about national defence.(f.1) They have felt no threat of imminent invasion; they have not seen their core values or institutions under challenge by some foreign, or even some domestic, force; they have not been coerced into domestic or foreign policies inimical to their preferences.(f.2) Indeed, the idea of national defence seems to be of decreasing rele…
National Defence vs. Foreign Affairs
David Dewitt is professor of political science and director of York's Centre for International and Security Studies. Jeff Plante is an advanced doctoral student in the Graduate Program in History, York University, and a research assistant for this project. We are pleased to acknowledge the financial support of the SSHRC and the indirect support of YCISS and the Security and Defence Forum, Department of National Defence. The Faculty of Graduate St…
The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law
The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's supervisory role in the international refugee protection regime examines the part played by key institutions, organizations and actors in the supervision of international ref…
Awol
Our focus is on Canadian defence and security activities in the Asia Pacific arena between 1990 and 2015. While governments have asserted the growing primacy of the Asia Pacific, we ask the following: What does Canada’s recent military and security record tell us about the policies and operational aspects of Canadian engagement? How might we assess these in comparison with Ottawa’s declared importance of the Asia Pacific? What might this tell us …
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific
Between 1989 and 2005, Canadian academics and officials initiated significant programs to promote security—both cooperative and human—in Asia. The distinctive features were Canadian leadership, resource commitments, and ambitions to advance inclusive “track-two” dialogue, broaden the scope of security discussions beyond conventional defence matters, and advance Canada's role in the region. This is a chronicle of two major Canadian initiatives, th…
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