POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Blackboard, Middle Power
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Pratt was critical of the scholars he was citing. These 2 quotes were taken from the pratt article he doesn"t agree with them. There is a lot of danger in accepting government in national interest. National interest is not just about what gov tells us. Each of the theories we covered last class has to do with the national interest. How we define national interest it is about canadian interest. Each of this theory with cfp what it should be best for canada, not anything else. Li: goal of cfp is to keep americans on the side. Because this is the primary goal, the failure of canada to join us is simply not in canada"s national interest because it takes away military allies. Even though we didn"t commit large number of forces, we were still providing support to the us. Ally us was invading without authorization of un so it was illegal.
