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When Lloyd Axworthy became Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs in January 1996 he brought to his new cabinet portfolio a deep interest in international affairs and a strong desire to make a difference in a post-Cold War world that festered with brutal civil wars - the lingering effects both of colonialism and of the superpower standoff of the previous decades. His initiatives on landmines, the International Criminal Court, war-affected children, and United Nations Security Council reform, as well as his efforts to involve civil society in the policy process, contributed to his reputation as an innovative thinker and foreign policy activist. At the same time, Axworthy raised Canada's international profile to extraordinary - and controversial - heights. Some academic and military analysts of a realist bent found much to criticize in the Axworthy doctrine that focused on human security while appearing to sidestep the hard realities of state-centred power politics.