Discussion After The Cold War Era, Canada's Human Security Concept And Its Structuralist Diplomatic Practice

This dissertation is mainly to discuss the emergence of a pointview of human security in the new phase of globalization as well as the importance of it in such developed countries as Canada.Totally, the dissertation is composed of four chapters:The first chapter is the introduction. In this chapter, the author makes a general discussion, including the importance of the choice for the topic, the current research on it, the innovations made in this paper, the frame of this paper. And finally, the author also tells the ways and means used.The second chapter makes discussions about a transfer from the traditional military security to human security in the period of post-cold war. As known to all, after the emergence of the new problems to threat human beings in post-cold war, the traditional security values with state as its center and military affairs as its main keep-away means, is replaced by the new security values. And as a matter of fact, the United Nation first put forward the idea of 'human security' in 1994, which is a kind of human-centered security and a replacement for the old state-centered security. Undoubtedly, it has brought great importance.The third chapter discusses the exploration on the idea of human security in Canada in post-cold war. In this chapter, the author divides it to three periods of time to narrate and analyze the explorations made by Canadian government, concluding that the human security by Canada is human beings' security, a kind of human-centered security with most attention to keep those common people secure from kinds of violent and nonviolent threats and meanwhile ensure their rights, life as well as existence away from threats. And in fact, human security is not only an idea, but an agenda. So in this chapter, the author points out the suppose of Canadian human security is to construct a democratic and equitable international system for human security.The fourth chapter finally talks about the practices of how the Canadian Government to make a new international system of human security with the guide of constructivist diplomatic theory .In this part, the author first narrates that the formation of the constructivist diplomatic theory is influenced by middle-power theory in Canada, and then promotes actively the norms for protecting human security into a cascade by means of its position as well as resources as a middle power. Meanwhile, by through these norms to construct the international systems of human-security protection based on equitable and democratic rules. Eventually, the author leads us to Canadian irreplaceable functions in construction of modes for human security through analyzing such specific practices as forbidding landmines, etc.