International Journal

FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS NOW, the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs has been bringing Canadians together with the purpose of asking some thought-provoking questions and encouraging lively, stimulating debates and action on a variety of key public...

Francois BurgatLondon: I.B. Tauris, 2003, 230pp, US$55.00 cloth, ISBN 1-86064-212-8, US$22.50 paper, ISBN 1-86064-213-6In recent years, the bookstores of the Western world have been inundated by works on political Islam, variously described as "fundamentalist,"...

Edited by David M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning and Louis W. PaulyIthaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002, 234pp, US$35.00, ISBN 0-8014-4019-XThis book contains academic analysis of the highest quality on themes of great concern to policy-makers....

Janis van der Westhuizen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is the author of the recently published Malaysia, South Africa and the Challenges of Ethnic Redistribution with...

INTRODUCTIONWhen some newspapers, on 6 February 1991, printed a small story on the possibility of a major trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States, very few people took the news seriously. On 1 January 2004, the North American Free...

Edited by Margaret MacMillan and Francine McKenzieVancouver: UBC Press, 2003, 320pp, $85.00 cloth, ISBN 0-7748-0975-2, $29.95 paper, 0-7748-0975-2The title of this collection comes from Mackenzie Bowell, Canada's minister of trade and commerce in 1893....

THE "BIG IDEA"--"deep integration" or the NAFTA-plus agenda--is gathering force. Actively promoted by the same people who brought us free trade--Tom D'Aquino and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives--its proponents are busy lobbying governments on...

Jonathan BarkerToronto: New Internationalist Publications and Between the Lines, 2003, 144pp, $15.00, ISBN 1-896357-75-XI loved reading this book! I enjoyed virtually every page and want everyone (especially Junior Bush and his colleagues in the Oval...

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, the governments of Canada and the United States were into the final weeks of fevered negotiations on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Proponents claimed the dawning of a new age of economic prosperity; detractors bemoaned...

LIKE MANY CANADIANS, I tuned in on the evening of 17 March 2003 to watch President George W. Bush deliver his much-anticipated ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Unlike most Canadians, I watched the speech in the US itself--to be precise, from Harvard University....

Anthony Westell is a former journalist with The Evening Standard, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star. He also taught in Carleton University's School of Journalism. Winner of three National Newspaper Awards, he is a member of the Canadian News Hall...