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Contact Africa: Canadian foreign policy, the contact group, and Southern Africa / Dawson, Grant

Dawson, Grant	Journal Article
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2009.

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Participation in the contact group serviced Canada's foreign policy interests in Africa. Ministers and bureaucrats believed that Canada's developing relations with black Africa were becoming more important than the traditional link to South Africa. The government hoped to maintain Canada's positive reputation among Africans by working on problems of cocern to positive reputation among Africans by working on problems of concern to them, such as South Africa's control of Namibia and apartheid.

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Southern Africa ; Canada ; SWAPO ; Namibia - Liberal Movement ; Foreign Policy

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No future for Libya with Gaddafi: Classical realism, status and revenge in the UK intervention in Libya / Dawson, Grant

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Why did Britain intervene in Libya in 2011? Several explanations suggest themselves: security, R2P and status. The article shows that status was a significant motivating factor, and this demonstrates a dynamic that helps to refine a classical realist theory of intervention. The article calls for status to be seen intrinsically and instrumentally, and for more attention to be paid to the related motive of revenge. The findings suggest (though do not prove from a causal standpoint) that status may be a stronger motive than security for state decision-makers. The article’s central empirical argument is that regime change in Libya was not the last stage of Britain’s foreign policy of intervention. Rather, intervention was the last stage in Britain’s status and revenge-driven foreign policy of regime change. Britain saw the Libya crisis as a chance to preserve its great power status and revenge Muammar Gaddafi for past wrongs.

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Libya with Gaddaf ; UK intervention in Libya

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