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To support citizen contributions to the Foreign Policy Dialogue, we are pleased to provide participants with the following resources and links on foreign policy and international affairs.

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New Resources

The United Nations and the Security Council: Central or Sidelined?
Expert roundtable report and netcasts from the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development in partnership with the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
(English) / (French)

A Dialogue on Foreign Policy

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ("Canadian Foreign Policy")
(English) / (French)

This Web site provides a broad overview of Canada's foreign policy. Within this Web site, different areas of Canada's foreign policy can be explored, among them:

  • Global Issues, Peace and Security
  • Human Security
  • Canada and International Organizations
  • Canada's Relations with Other Countries
  • Trade and Economic Policy
  • International Development
  • Aboriginal Planet
  • The Environment
  • Foreign Policy Development
  • Participation in Foreign Policy
  • Youth Zone

The Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development (DFAIT)
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/cfp-pec/

This Web site offers policy reports and on-line video interviews with experts.

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The 1995 Policy Review and Since

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada in the World: Foreign Policy Review 1995, on-line:
(English) / (French).

Interdependence and Multilateralism

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Global Issues
(English) / (French).

The Canada-U.S. Relationship

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and the United States: A Strong Partnership
(English) / (French).

The White House, U.S. National Security Strategy
(English only).

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Recent Global Changes

African Union
(English) / (French).

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(English) / (French).

European Union
(English) / (French).

Free Trade Area of the Americas
(English) / (French).

United Nations (UN)
(multilingual).

United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals
(English) / (French).

Group of Eight (G8)
(English) / (French).

New Partnership for Africa's Development
Our Current Commitments
(English and French)

G8 Africa Action Plan
(English) / (French).

G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
(English) / (French).

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Security

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (The Ottawa Convention)
(English) / (French).

Department of National Defence (DND)
(English) / (French).

Human Security Web site (from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
(English) / (French).

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS)
(English) / (French).

International Criminal Court
(English) / (French).

The Responsibility To Protect (Report from the ICISS)
(English) / (French).

Smart Border Declaration
(English) / (French).

United Nations Security Council
(English) / (French).

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Prosperity

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
(English) / (French).

G20
(English only).

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
(English) / (French).

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
(English) / (French).

World Bank
(English) / (French).

World Trade Organization (WTO)
(English) / (French).

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Values and Culture

Aboriginal Planet (from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
(English) / (French).

Canada Council for the Arts
(English) / (French).

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(English) / (French).

Canadian Heritage
(English) / (French).

Multiculturalism (from Canadian Heritage)
(English) / (French).

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Other Links from Civil Society

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada/Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada
(English) / (French)

Canada-Asia Pacific Research Network (CAPRN) Discussion Group
(English only)

Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI)
(French only).

The Atlantic Council of Canada/Le Conseil Atlantique du Canada
(English) / (French).

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR)
(English only).

Canadian Council of Chief Executives/Conseil canadien des chefs d'entreprise
(English) / (French).

Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC)/Conseil canadien pour la coopération internationale (CCCI)
(English and French).

Canadian Foundation for the Americas/Fondation canadienne pour les Amériques (FOCAL)
(English) / (French).

Canadian Institute of International Affairs/Institut canadien des affaires internationales
(English only).

Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
(English only).

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Canadian Labour Congress/Congrès du travail du Canada
(English) / (French).

Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters/Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Canada
(English only).

Electronic Commons/Agora Electronique project
(English) / (French).

l'Institut québécois des hautes études internationales
(French only).

International Development Research Centre/Centre de recherches pour le développement international
(English) / (French).

International Institute for Sustainable Development
(English only).

International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development /
Centre international des droits de la personne et du développement démocratique

(English) / (French)

The North-South Institute/L'Institut Nord-Sud
(English) / (French).

Oxfam Canada
(English only).

Oxfam Québec
(French only).

Project Ploughshares
(English only).

Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies/Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques
(French only)

United Nations Association of Canada/ l'Association canadienne pour les Nations Unies (ACNU)
(English) / (French)

The Conference Board of Canada
(English)

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On-line Foreign Policy Information

Canadian Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations Links (University of British Columbia)
(English only).

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Journals

Canadian Foreign Policy
Published by the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa.
(English only).

Études internationales
Published by the Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, Université Laval
(French only)

International Journal
Published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs
(English only)

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Recent Books

Andrew Cooper, John English and Ramesh Thakur ed. Global Governance: Toward a New Diplomacy? Tokyo: United Nations University, 2002.

Tom Keating, Canada and World Order: The Multilateralist Tradition in Canadian Foreign Policy (2nd edition). Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Norman Hillmer and Maureen Appel Molot, eds., Canada Among Nations 2002. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Evan H. Potter, ed. Cyber-Diplomacy: Managing Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

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Other Books

André Donneur, Politique étrangère canadienne. Montreal: Guérin Universitaire, 1994.

Paul Painchaud, De Mackenzie King à Pierre Trudeau, Quarante ans de diplomatie canadienne (1945-1985). Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1989.

Kim Richard Nossal, The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 3rd edition. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1997.

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Other Resources

Youth Zone, on-line:
Human Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(English) / (French).

House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(English) / (French) .

Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
(English) / (French).