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Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Road to Beijing -- 3 Governmental Politics -- 4 Nongovernmental Organizations within Canada -- 5 Canadian Delegation -- 6 Canadian NGOs at the International Negotiations -- 7 Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action -- 8 Building on the Past, Looking to the Future -- Appendices -- Notes -- Interviewees -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

For Canada, establishing sovereignty over its continental shelf resources has been a law of the sea priority since the Second World War. Large quantities of oil, gas, and minerals are contained in the seabed; hence, there is a strong economic imperative to establish coastal state jurisdiction. Historically, instead of taking unilateral actions, as many coastal states have, Canada has preferred multilateral channels. At the First and Second Conferences on the Law of the Sea, the Seabed Committee, and the Third Conference on the Law of the Sea, which produced the Convention on the Law of the Sea, Canada was a strong, effective advocate of coastal state rights. The convention's provisions are highly advantageous to coastal states. Canada has incorporated these rights into its legislation, ratified the convention, spent over a decade mapping the seabed, and, in December 2013, filed a submission with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

For the past 60 years, Canada has remained a stalwart supporter of the UN. This article draws lessons from Canada's involvement with the UN, beginning in the early 1940s when plans for the UN were first being discussed and ending in the late 1980s as the Cold War era was drawing to a close. These lessons have policy relevance in today's world in which America has emerged as the sole Superpower due to economic expansions that consolidated the US economic hegemony. Adapted from the source document.