Elusive Pursuits: Lessons from Canada’s Interventions Abroad is the 29th volume of the influential Canada Among Nations series. This book examines Canada’s role in foreign military and security missions, and its tendency to intervene under the auspices of international institutions. Canada is not just among nations in these efforts, but in nations on a regular basis.
Table of Contents
Preface – Rohinton Medhora and Dane Rowlands
Foreword – Hugh Segal
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: Learning Lessons from Canada’s Interventions
Fen Osler Hampson and Stephen M. Saideman
Part One — Interventions: Lessons Learned
Mandating Responsibility: International Legal Lessons from the Military Intervention in Libya
Christopher K. Penny
Navigating Troubled Waters: Canada in the Arab World
Marie-Joëlle Zahar
Lessons Learned?: Public Opinion and the Afghanistan Mission
Jean-Christophe Boucher and Kim Richard Nossal
Canada and Somalia: Learning from the Legacy of Failed Intervention
Aisha Ahmad
Living among the Population in Southern Afghanistan: A Canadian Approach to Counter-insurgency
Caroline Leprince
Securing the Pearl of the Caribbean: The Canadian Contribution to Haiti’s Security and Stability, 2004–2014
Gaëlle Rivard Piché
Part Two — The Domestic Side of Intervention
Canada’s Development Interventions: Unpacking Motives and Effectiveness in Canadian Foreign Aid
Stephen Brown
The Gender Turn in Canadian Military Interventions
Stéfanie von Hlatky
Part Three — Responsibility to Protect
Syria and the Responsibility to Protect
Jane Boulden
The Call of Duty: Harper’s Doctrine on Military Intervention
Derek Burney, Fen Osler Hampson and Simon Palamar
Geriatric Interventions: The Demographic Horizon of Collective Security
Christian Leuprecht
Contributors
