An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?: Challenges and Choices for the Future

✍ Scribed by Brian Bow; Patrick Lennox

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Divided into sections about the history of Canadian foreign policy, diplomacy, security, economics, decision-making and new policy issues, this collection of prominent political scientists provides valuable and timely perspectives on the state of Canada's international relations in the twenty-first century.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The Question of Independence, Then and Now
PART ONE. Continuities and Discontinuities, Structure and Choice
1. Running in Circles: The Canadian Independence Debate in History
2. The Illusion of Independence
PART TWO. Dealing with Uncle
3. Rethinking ‘Retaliation’ in Canada–U.S. Relations
4. The Return of the Quiet Canadian: Canada’s Approach to Regional Integration after 9/11
PART THREE. Finding Security in the Continental System
5. An Independent Security Policy for Canada in the Age of Sacred Terror?
6. Walking and Talking Independence in the Canadian North
PART FOUR. Economic Policy-Making in a Complex Environment
7. Maintaining Policy Discretion: Cross-Border Policy-Making and North American Integration
8. An Independent Foreign Policy for Canadian Provinces?: International Trade and Sub-Federal Autonomy
PART FIVE. New Frontiers of Independence
9. Imagining Independence: At the Intersection of Cultural and Foreign Policies
10. Canada and Kyoto: Independence or Indifference?
11. Conclusions: Beyond ‘Independence’
Bibliography
Contributors