THOMAS BERGER
"Who Owns the Arctic? is a great rebuke to the politicians who are all talk on sovereignty, climate change and the rights of the Inuit, the eternal stewards of Arctic lands."
TONY PENIKETT, former Yukon Premier
"Agree or disagree with him — but there is no ignoring Michael Byers's powerful views on the Arctic."
ROB HUEBERT, University of Calgary
For an interview with the CBC's Peter Mansbridge see: Who Owns the Arctic?
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Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? (Douglas
& McIntyre: Vancouver, 2007/2008)
“a passionate and cheerful call for international
action, based on a diligent reading of our values and our potential...closely
argued, convincing, challenging, sometimes even exhilarating.”
— Globe and Mail
“For anyone who loves Canada, hates
Canada or is ambivalent about this whole vast land mass and its contrarian
population of self-doubters, Intent for a Nation may be the most exciting book
to appear in decades.”
— Ottawa Citizen
“A visionary
call for Canada to live up to its potential, from one of our most brilliant
young thinkers.”
— Maude Barlow
“How
refreshing to have a book on Canadian foreign policy argued from a progressive,
constructive point of view. Michael Byers presents an engaging case for how and
why Canada should take the lead in creating a global system based on rules and
co-operation. It’s a fine antidote to the present Ottawa mentality, which
insists we can only show our mettle and merit through the barrel of a gun.”
—
Lloyd Axworthy
War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict
(Douglas & McIntyre: Vancouver, 2005)
“Should be
read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we
will leave to future generations.”
— Noam
Chomsky
“Clear and
informative, his account is particularly valuable at a time when there is a
worldwide debate, arising largely from the Iraq situation, ...about the
circumstances in which it is legally appropriate for one country to use force
against another or for international intervention on humanitarian grounds.”
— New York Review of Books
“A lucid,
quietly damning account of the supposed justifications that have topped and
tailed two decades of unilateral military adventures, from Grenada to Baghdad.”
— The Independent (London, UK)
”In
the post-Cold War world, a single dominant superpower and a dysfunctional UN
security council (my opinion not the author’s) threatens the very relevance of
war law. Michael Byers makes a compelling case that it’s needed now more than
ever.”
— Lewis W. MacKenzie, OOnt, MSC, CD. Major-General
(ret’d)
“Byers is
... the very model of the modern globetrotting academic.”
— Maclean’s
Magazine
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