PSCI 3607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Warsaw Pact, Operation North, United Nations Protection Force
Document Summary
Canadian national security policy bringing security to canada by addressing things overseas through: nato, u. n. , and peacekeeping. Canada"s defence priorities: defence of canada, defence of north america, contributions to collective defence (nato, contributions to international peace and security. Bad guy/aggressor is identified, one side against the other: collective security (ex. Everyone looking at everyone to address threats and going against the threat: third party interventions (ex. Stop the undesired activity, a+b fighting c intervenes. Political motive of a third-party intervention is different, it isn"t to win it is to stop the conflict (neutralize stop activity from continuing and civilians from being killed) Peacekeeping is a third-party intervention that started with un emerg. It didn"t want a superpower war between the u. s. and the soviet union (global strategic concern of global war). It was a strategic self-interest in ensuring no nuclear between the u. s. and russia (s. u. : during the cold-war there were 13 p. k. missions (included observer missions) .