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By Zachary Paikin and Jean-François Caron
For the second time in 10 years, Canada was denied a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, marking a significant rebuff for a country once recognized as the honest and disinterested policeman of the international order and which was at the origin of one of the most notable global initiatives of the 20th century, namely the Blue Helmets. This slap inflicted by the international community was also historic since it marked the first time that a country had consecutively failed to be elected to this select club after having sat there 6 times since its creation in 1945. Contrary to what Justin Trudeau promised in 2015, Canada was not back as a leading player in the world of international relations, but rather continued to sink into its global isolation.
There was indeed a time when it wasn’t presumptuous to say that the “world needed more Canada”. Nowadays, it seems like this is no longer the case. What are the main reasons that explain Canada’s global marginalization? We are looking for contributors who can shed some light on this matter. Individuals who are interested to write a chapter in an upcoming edited volume are invited to send an abstract of 500 words in which their thesis and main arguments will be clearly exposed by March 15, 2022, to Dr. Jean-François Caron (jean-francois.caron@nu.edu.kz) and Dr. Zachary Paikin (zach.paikin@peacediplomacy.org). Those whose proposals are selected will be invited to submit a chapter of 8,000-10,000 words by the end of June 2022.
Dr. Zachary Paikin (@zpaikin) is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at IPD and a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (CEPS).
Dr. Jean-François Caron (@jfrcaron) is a Senior Fellow at IPD and an Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University.