Lester B. Pearson, Collective Security, and the World Order Tradition of Canadian Foreign Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID5133756
AuthorsPeter Gellman (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England., corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume44
Issue1
Pages68-101
Publication date1989-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002070208904400103
OpenAlexW2318717156
LanguageEN
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Speaking to the United Nations Association of the United States in April 1985, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, Stephen Lewis, took up rhetorical arms in defence of that muchcriticized organization. Already working quietly for a concerted diplomatic response to persistent and disturbing criticism of the United Nations, Lewis used his speech to take aim at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative American research institute with close ties to the Reagan administration which some months earlier had published an edited volume entitled A World Without a U.N.: What Would Happen if the United Nations Shut Down. Several days after the speech, Lewis spoke of Canada's 'long and loyal commitment to the u.n. and multilateralism. When the u.n. is criticized illegitimately,' he argued, 'I have the right to come to its defence.'1

Collective security · Criticism · Economics · Foreign policy · Multilateralism · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Security council · Sociology · United Nations Charter · World order · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Philosophy

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