POLS 375 Lecture Notes - Lawrence Cannon, Soft Power, Maxime Bernier
23 Mar 2013
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Cabinet: division between prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. One of the benefits of having a minister in for a significant period of time: if that minister chooses, they can pick specific foreign agendas. They can take their thing and run with it. A good example is lloyd axworthy"s doctrine on human security. The belief that canada could exert influence on the world using soft power in the area of human security. The thing about human security is that it"s a great sell to your own people and people of other countries. It"s a much harder sell to governments (particularly strong, large governments). In the mid-90s, huge, deep, budget cuts occurred under the watch of the. Liberal government (according to current government: on the backs of provinces). Our military, foreign affairs department, foreign aid, etc. , was getting cuts. Axworthy decides that we don"t need hard power: we can coast on our reputation.
