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085814
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2008.
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After the cold war, Canada continued to participate in UN peace keeping missions and NATO operations, but there was no overall strategic sense about priorities.
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085815
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2008.
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Given the debates over the NATO mission in Afghanistan, it might be assumed that German interest in that country is unprecedented. Yet history holds a different record, for an earlier generation of German leaders also paid condiderable attention to Afghanistan.
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085827
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2008.
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When Bernard Kouchner was expelled from France's socialist party last year for accepting President Nicolas Sarkozy's invitaiton to become foreign minister, it was as if history was repeating itself.
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085810
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2008.
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Implicitly and explicitly, Canadians and Germans look to each other for best practices and lessons learned about politics and policy on such varied topics as approaches to federalism, electoral reform, environmental protection, welfare state reform, education, and immigration and integration.
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ID:
085824
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2008.
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Canada's mission in Afghanistan has evolved considerably. What began as a contribution to operation Enduring Freedom in the aftermath of 9/11 has since transformed into postconflict reconstruction, counterinsurgency warfare, and nationbuilding.
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ID:
085807
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ID:
085823
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2008.
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During the German EU and G8 presidencies, energy security and climate change were prominent issues on Berlin's summit agenda. This was also reflected in the thematic emphasis of the Canada-EU high level meeting in early June 2007 in Berlin.
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ID:
085825
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2008.
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In march 2008, parliament voted to extent Canadian military operations in Afghanistan through 2011. By July of that year, roughly 41000 Canadians will have served in the Afghan theatre of operations, 15000 more than fought in Korea.
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ID:
085828
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2008.
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The establishment of the Belin wall was one of the seminal moments of the cold war. Not only did the wall serves as the most powerful symbol of the protracted conflict, but its erection was one of the few occasions in which a hot war appeared imminent.
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ID:
085816
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2008.
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The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2007-08 has meant that NATO and its international security assistance force (ISAF) have had to evolve into a counterinsurgency operation in more parts of the country.Its chances of an easy victory are slim.
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ID:
085826
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2008.
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July 2008 produced two major developments relating to international criminal justice, highlighting again the political delicacy of this newly salient dimension of international relations. On 14 July, the prosecutor of the international criminal court sought an arrest warrant against serving Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity, and murder.
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ID:
085822
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2008.
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During the course of Germany's EU council presidency in 2007, Canada was mentioned often in official speeches, government documents, and petitions. Nonetheless, EU Canadian economic integration was not a serious priority for Germany of for that matter the European Union.
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ID:
085811
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2008.
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If Canada is famously said to have more geography than history, Germany has more history than geography.What Canada really lacks, though, is not history but memory. Survey after survey shows how littel Canadians know about the people and events that have shaped them.
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ID:
085812
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2008.
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This was not the kind of multiculturalism harmony the visitor from Germany would have expected. It was a cold winter evening in Montreal when a heated debate took place in the city's congress hall.
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ID:
085818
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2008.
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As the transatlantic relationship moves further away from the cold war context that defined it for many years, it also becomes, by definition, less of an exclusive relationship.
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ID:
085813
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2008.
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Currently, NATO's mission in Afghanistan is at the top of the transatlantic security agenda. In Canada, dissatisfaction with the level of support Canadian troops have been getting from their NATO allies has concentrated on Germany even more than other European countries.
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ID:
085809
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Publication |
2008.
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For almost three decades, I have had the privilege of observing the political, economic, soical and cultural changes in Germany. It was a period that was characterised by such terms as Mittelstreckenraketen (medium range missiles), pershing missiles, and the stationing of nuclear weapons on German soil. All this was accompanied by the NATO debate on the Doppelbeschluss, the double track decision put forward and championed by Helmut Schmidt.
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ID:
085808
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Publication |
2008.
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Summary/Abstract |
Robert Spencer is an atlantic man, part of a generation that fought the war well, believed the Atlantic span was narrow and founded on common values, and committed its professional lives to preserving the links to Europe when it was in ashes and, during those more difficult years, when it thrived.
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ID:
085819
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Publication |
2008.
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Summary/Abstract |
Canadians in particular are in danger of becoming as Europhobic as the British as a result of hostile media coverage of Europe. That is a mistake, because the EU portrayed by the British media as a bloated, antidemocratic superstate has been a success story in creating an economically powerful union of 27 countries.
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