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establish a combat-ready strike force to respond swiftly to global crises to

prevent the loss of innocent life and strengthen Canada’s influence with its

allies, says Art Eggleton, the Defence Minister. The European Union has already

announced it will set up a 60,000-member rapid-reaction force outside of NATO

to intervene in crisis situations in Europe in which the United States does not

wish to become involved. ?[15]These forces are to be able to quickly descend on a crisis situation and

prevent the sort of massive bloodshed and humanitarian tragedy that we have

seen in the past with Rwanda and Kosovo. The justification for these forces are

the number of lives that could be saved if only they ?peacekeepers? could have

arrived? there more quickly. Annan cites

the actions of the Security Council and the UN forces in East Timor as a prime

example of the benefits to be had when the Council and the UN is able to

quickly set up a multinational force that has the authorisation to go in and

prevent an astronomical human tragedy, there is a caution however in that the

problem in East Timor is not over yet, and it is too soon for congratulations

and to sit back and rest on what has been accomplished, the fourth aspect of

peacekeeping is still needed, there must be a strong commitment on the part of

the international community to maintain the peace. ?And yet the commitment of the international

community to peacekeeping, to humanitarian assistance, to rehabilitation, and

reconstruction varies greatly from region to region, and crisis to crisis.?[16]

This sums up one of the major problems with peacekeeping so far. The Member States

of the UN are firstly interested in pursuing their national interests, above

all else. The enforcement of the principals of human rights have been uneven at

best. Western governments will go in when there is an need for the enforcement

of human rights, and it does not

affect any of their national interests. What this has lead to is a number of UN

actions in third world, and smaller nations to prevent human tragedy while

violations of the western standard of human rights goes unpunished in larger

countries, say for example China. It is here that we run into the dangers of this

new peacekeeping, the possibility that it could lead to a greater war if it was

fully and evenly applied. There has been some concern on the part of China that

this new direction in peacekeeping could eventually lead to a ?humanitarian

intervention? within their borders as the concept of sovereignty is becoming

less of an absolute, and ?frontiers are not the absolute defence?[17]

What happens when western standards of human rights are used as the ruler

against which all other governments are measured. When you apply that standard

to an totalitarian regime such as China, you immediately run into a cause for a

?humanitarian intervention?. It could be argued that the totalitarian regime of

China doesn?t represent the people of China, that it oppresses and violates the

basic human rights of its own citizens and therefore should not believe that it

can ?disregard the most basic rules of human conduct.?[18]

Or at least disregard the most basic rules of western based human conduct.? There is however an argument to be made for

China, and that is that the people have spoken, the Chinese government does

represent the people of China as they had a revolution and chose their leader

to be General Mau. While the system of government may not be one that we as

western nations approve of, would we just be spreading our own empire of democratic

capitalism to people who may not want it? The argument over who?s system of

government is better is a long one and not one that we are going to get into in

this paper. BibliographyCooper, Andrew F. Canadian Foreign Policy, Old Habits and New

Directions. Prentice- Hall Canada Inc. Scarborough Ontario. 1997?Documents:The UN Secretary

General?s report, ?An Agenda For Peace?. This report outlines

the UN position on Peacekeeping and the New World Order. The document stresses

the need for the establishment of conflict management and greater peacekeeping

efforts. Speech by Minister

Loyd Axworthy given at the ?Canadian Land Mines Foundation Luncheon? on the

?Group of 12? December 1998 at the Royal York Hotel. Toronto. The future policy and

direction of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

and the future of Canadian peace keeping is outlined within this speech.Websites:National Post.The National Post ran

a story titled ?Military plans rapid-reaction force to respond to global

crises? Which is excerpted above. This and other articles on Peacekeeping make

the Post a good resource for seeing the media spin on this international issue.

British Ministry of

DefenceThe MOD white pages

are outlined online and the site is a good tool for finding the British

government?s position on the various embodiments of peacekeeping and peace

enforcement that they have made part of this governments foreign policy. The

topics of ?Peace Inducement? and? ?Inducing

consent? are terms that are on that site and are of a concern and part of the

major focus of this paper. [1] United Nations Home page, http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/.

[2] Annan, Kofi A. ?A Shared vision of a better world? Newsweek. [3]

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