The Narrative of Canada as a Peacekeeping Nation since the 1990s: Permanence and Evolution of a National Paradigm
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the end of the Second World War, the government of Canada has regularly emphasized Canada's commitment to maintaining peace and liberty in the world through peacekeeping within the framework of the United Nations. Born in the 1950s, this narrative of Canada as a model peacekeeper held a central place in the successive Canadian governments' discourse on foreign policy and thus became an important element of the way Canadian national identity was defined. This article intends to analyze whether the narrative of Canada as a peacekeeping nation continued unchanged in more recent years. As we will show, since the 1990s, Canada's contributions to peacekeeping have undergone major changes. This article will examine whether these changes have been reflected in the official discourse on Canadian foreign policy produced by successive governments, both Liberal and Conservative, and whether, as a result, the narrative of Canada as a peacemaker is being challenged, and maybe replaced, by a new national narrative.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.062 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".