The more commonly cited threats endangering Canadian national security today include: terror-ism, trade in illicit drugs and rise of organized crime, underdevelopment, poverty, mass involuntary migration, spread of infectious diseases like AIDS, ecological degradation and scarcity, human rights abuses, overpopulation, ethnic conflict, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and refugees. A careful reading of where most of these "threats" originate reveals afundamental realignment in Canada's international security agenda from East-West to North-South determinants of world (dis)order. It is argued that the Southern dimensions of threats discourse sustain expenditures on national defence at a time when there is no immediate military challenge to Canada's security.Abstraction faite des questions militaires conventionnelles, les prkoccupations canadiennes en matiire de skuritk durant l'apris-guerre froide concernent des menaces w o n conventionnelless. De nos jours, les ((menaces)) les plus souvent cities sont : le terrorisme, le commerce de stupdfzants et la montke du crime organist?, la propagation de maladies infectieuses comme le sida, la dkgradation environnementale, les penuries, les atteintes aux droits de la personne, la surpopulation, les conflits ethniques, la proliferation des armes de destruction massive et les refugies. Un examen attentif de l'origine de ces (( menaces n revile une reorientation fondamentale des priorites de stcurite nationale au Canada; les determinants de l'ordre (ou du ddsordre) mondial sont dksormais considires dans une optique Nord-Sud plutdt qu'Est-Ouest. L'auteur cc dholit b ) la conception mondiale selon laquelle les menaces If la stabilite internationale naissent ou kmanent principalement du u Sud w en soutenant qu'un discours credible sur les menaces n'est jamais
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