Research Catalog

Title

The politics of Canadian foreign policy / Kim Richard Nossal, Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin.

Author

Nossal, Kim Richard

Publication

Montréal ; Kingston : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queens University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Roussel, Stéphane, 1964-
• Paquin, Stéphane

Description

xxvi, 396 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The fourth edition of this widely-used text includes updates of the many changes that have occurred in Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives between 2006 and 2015. including the evanescence of internationalism, the rise of a new foreign policy agenda increasingly shaped by domestic political imperatives, and the changing organization of Canada's foreign policy bureaucracy. But like previous editions, it seeks to analyze the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada. Taking a broad historical perspective, Nossal, Roussel, and Paquin provide students with the key foundations for the study of Canadian foreign policy. They argue that foreign policy is forged in the nexus of politics at three levels - the global, the domestic, and the governmental - and that to understand how and why Canadian foreign policy looks the way it does, one must look at the interplay of all three.

Series Statement

Queen's policy studies series

Uniform Title

Queen's policy studies

Subject

• Diplomatic relations
• International relations > Administration
• Politics and government
• Canada > Foreign relations administration
• Canada > Politics and government
• Canada > Foreign relations
• Canada

Note

• Previous LC classification number JX1729.N67 is no longer valid.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Analyzing Canadian Foreign Policy -- What is Foreign Policy? -- What Determines Foreign Policy? -- The International Setting -- Domestic Politics -- Governmental Politics -- Identity and History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Policy Setting -- Canada's International Location -- Neighbourhood -- Geostrategic Location -- The "Long Peace" -- The "Kingston Dispensation" of 1938 -- The Cold War "Glacis" -- The Post-Cold War Era -- The Post-9/11 Era -- Economic Structure -- The Dynamics of Group Membership -- International Institutions -- Clubs and Coalitions -- Alliances -- Material Capabilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Power and Status: Canada's International Influence -- Images of Canada's Power -- Canada as Middle Power -- Middlepowermanship in Question -- Alternative Images of Canada's Power -- Assessing Images of Canada's Power: Normative Corollaries -- Rethinking Canada's Power: A Power Analysis Approach -- Techniques of Power and Influence -- The Use of Force and the Canadian Military -- Punishments and Threats: Sanctions and Coercion -- Diplomacy: The Art of Persuasion -- Power and Canadian-American Relations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Society and Foreign Policy -- Societal Interests -- Ethnic Interests -- Egoistic Interests -- Altruistic Interests -- The Influence of Societal Actors -- The Policymaking Environment -- The Decision-Making Process -- Electoral Politics and Foreign Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Dominant Ideas in Foreign Policy -- Ideas, Culture, and International Relations -- Before the Great War: Imperialism -- Between the Wars: Isolationism -- The Cold War Era: Internationalism -- The Post-Cold War Era: Ideas in Flux -- The Post-9/11 Era: After Internationalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Actors and Processes -- The Prime Minister and Foreign Policy -- The Preeminence of the Prime Minister -- Robert L. Borden (1911-1920) -- William Lyon Mackenzie King (1921-1926, 1926-1930, 1935-1948) -- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1968-1979, 1980-1984) -- Brian Mulroney (1984-1993) -- Jean Chrétien (1993-2003) -- Paul Martin (2003-2006) -- Stephen Harper (2006- ) -- The Sources of Preeminence -- The Power of Appointment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Prime Minister and Summit Diplomacy -- Contemporary Summit Diplomacy -- The Prime Minister's Summit Calendar -- The G7 Summit -- The G-20 Summit -- The Commonwealth -- La Francophonie -- Presidents and Prime Ministers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Widening the Circle: Other Ministers -- The Key Ministers -- The Minister of Foreign Affairs -- The Minister of National Defence -- Other Ministers -- The Minister of International Trade -- The Minister for La Francophonie -- The Minister of International Development -- Ministers of State -- Cabinet Involvement in Foreign Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy -- Organizing for Foreign Affairs -- The Early Years: 1867-1909 -- Modest Beginnings: 1909-1939 -- Expansion: 1939-1968 -- Reorganizing the Foreign Policy Machinery: 1968-2013 -- The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy Today -- The Influence of the Bureaucracy -- Ministers and Mandarins -- Assessing Bureaucratic Influence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Parliament and Foreign Policy -- Parties and Parliament -- Limited Powers, Limited Influence? -- The Senate -- The House of Commons -- Creating Legitimacy -- Speaking for Voters: The Representative Function -- Speaking to Voters: The Educative Function -- Commons Committees -- Parties and Foreign Policy -- Consensus and Dissensus in Foreign Policy -- Strategic Consensus, 1919-1991 -- Divergence over Trade Policy, 1911-1993 -- The Era of Dissensus, 1993-2015 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Provinces and Foreign Policy -- Sovereignty and Paradiplomacy -- Federalism and International Relations -- The Canadian Constitution and Foreign Policy -- International Treaties -- NAFTA and Province-State Relations -- Organizing for International Affairs -- Representation Abroad -- Bureaucratization at Home -- International Interests of the Provinces -- Economic Interests -- Environmental Interests -- Security Interests -- Political Interests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Québec's Paradiplomatie identitaire -- Québec as an International Actor -- The Origins of Québec's Paradiplomatie identitaire -- Québec's Paradiplomacy, 1965-2015 -- Projecting Outwards, 1965-1976 -- The PQ and Protodiplomacy 1976-1983 -- Conservatives and Liberals, 1984-1993 -- Protodiplomacy Redux, 1994-1995 -- Paradiplomacy After 1995 -- Paradiplomacy, Protodiplomacy, and Foreign Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes.

ISBN

• 9781553394433
• 1553394437
• 9781553394440 (canceled/invalid)
• 1553394445 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781553394457 (canceled/invalid)
• 1553394453 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 920015732
• SCSB-10923460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library