Prof. Adil Najam Publishes Book Chapter on Canadian Foreign Policy
Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, contributed a book chapter to the collection Canada Among Nations 2009-2010: As Others See Us, edited by Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker and published by the McGill-Queen’s Univeristy Press (2010). Prof. Adil Najam co-authored a chapter on Canadian foreign policy and climate change along with David Runnalls, the President of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
This book marks the 25th anniversary of the book series, Canada Among Nations. The book assesses Canada’s prospects in a world in which the United States will become more pre-eminent than predominant. The rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil as well as the increased significance of Europe and the further development of Africa are all transforming the context in which Canadians live. The volume includes contributions by leading Canadian and foreign practitioners and scholars.
Apart from Prof. Najam, other contributors of the book included Kanti Najpai (Oxford University), Kwesi Botchwey (former Minister of Finance, Ghana), Jayantha Dhanapala (former UN under-secretary-general for disarmament), Louise Frechette (former UN deputy-secretary-general), Angel Gurria (secretary general of OECD), Kishore Mahbubani (Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN), Rohimton Medhora (vice president of IDRC), Thomas Pickering (former US under-secretary for State), Kenneth Roth (executive director of Human Rights Watch), Andres Rozental (former deputy foreign minister of Mexico), Gordon Smith (former deputy minister for foreign affairs, Canada), and Ramesh Thakur (former Vice Rector, United Nations University).