Canadian Foreign Affairs and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs

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Introduction
The article by Dyer (2018) discusses the possibility of a meeting between the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Adel al-Jubeir. The rivalry between the two nations begun as a result of Saudi Arabia’s arrest of Canadian human rights activists. The main issue, however, is whether states should interfere with the culture of other nations because they feel that the nation’s culture interferes with human rights. Being an Arab nation, Saudi Arabia holds strict principles and cultures that deprive women several rights and the Canadian activists aimed at demanding equal rights in the country. Being the nation’s representative, Freeland’s comments over the issue also heightened the tension between the two nations as Saudi reacted by ordering students to leave Canada and relocate to other countries. More so, Saudi Arabia ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave the country and declared him persona non grata (Dyer, 2018). The two countries have been reluctant to amend the disputes as both nations believe that their counterpart is to blame for the rivalry. The main actors in the issue are the Canadian and Saudi Arabian Foreign Affairs Minister, as well as the Canadian representatives and the United Nations.
By globalization, national policies are interlocked with global issues (Zaei, 2014). Consequently, it means that for developed and developing countries, the boundaries of the nation’s system are permeable to outside pressures and influences. The permeability explains why the Canadian activists protested for the equal rights of women in Saudi Arabia even though it was a foreign nation. National issues such as social welfare are considered to be global issues and countries are greatly concerned with the affairs of other nations because their citizens are most likely to face similar treatment when they visit these nations. Because of this, the policies and cultures of different nations are also a great concern for other nations in the global community (Applebaum & Robinson, 2005).
Realism, also referred to as political realism, stresses the states as being the principal actors in the political arena (Waltz, 2008). Because of this, the states act in pursuit of their national interests and observing the nation’s security. As described by the theory, the two main actors are Saudi Arabia and Canada. The two states also act by their interests as described by Waltz, since Saudi Arabia greatly supports its cultural practices even though their culture is unfair to the rights of women. Canada, on the other hand, opposes Saudi Arabia’s decision to deprive women some rights because the country upholds equal rights for all genders. Their stands can, therefore, be linked to national interests.
On the other hand, Badie, Schlosser, and Morlino (2011) associate liberalism to a family portrait of the institutions and principles that are recognizable by certain characteristics which are shared by all liberal democratic societies. The basis of liberalism is marked by the plurality in state actions and state preferences (Badie, Schlosser, &...