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Canada's intervention in Afghanistan since 2001 has been described as a war, a peace operation and even a counter-insurgency campaign. In our opinion, these actions fall rather into a gray area. Indeed, this intervention seems to go beyond the limits of the founding principles of peace operations, but appears to preserve some characteristics of these. This article analyzes the features of these activities by using a theoretical model in order to determine which type of military operations the Afghan mission does belong to. The aim is therefore to clarify this gray area by seeking to identify the ontological position most appropriate to differentiate between these types of activities.
Keywords: Opérations de paix, guerre, intervention militaire, Canada, Afghanistan, peace operations, war, military intervention, Canada, Afghanistan
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The author describes the three types of films directed or produced by the nuns in Québec: the recruitment film, the souvenir-film (for the family album) and the prayer-film. She replaces them in their context of fabrication and insists on the urgency to take preservation measures on account of their high historical interest.
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AbstractBuilding on the argument laid out in our book Incoherent Empire, where we offered a detailed examination of the military, political, economic and ideological powers of the United States, as well as a critique of the new imperialism of the Bush administration, in this article, we refine the argument by surveying the whole course of American Empire throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. We subsequently address the three main sub-types of empire, plus one predominantly non-imperial type of domination : the periods of direct, indirect, and informal empire, and hegemony. These four involve declining levels of violence. After putting the new imperialism in broader context of empires in general and the long-term trajectory of American imperialism in particular we finally analyze the Bush empire. The questions we seek to answer here are : where has the United States fitted into this typology in the past ? How far has the administration of Bush the Younger imperially escalated ? And will this be successful ?