From Pride to Influence

Towards a New Canadian Foreign Policy

By Michael Hart
Categories: Political Science, Security, Peace & Conflict Studies, International Relations, Canadian Political Science
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774815871, 472 pages, December 2008
Paperback : 9780774815888, 472 pages, May 2009
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774815895, 472 pages, December 2008
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852814, 460 pages, August 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774858649, 472 pages, April 2009

Table of contents

Preface

 

1 Doing Foreign Policy

2 Fads, Fashions, and Competing Perspectives

3 The Making of Canadian Foreign Policy

4 Legacies from the Past

5 The Global Search for Security

6 The Global Search for Prosperity

7 Ties That Bind

8 Myths, Perceptions, Values, and Canada-US Relations

9 Managing Relations with the United States

10 A World of Infinite Options

11 Doing Foreign Policy ... Seriously ... in the Twenty-First Century

 

Notes

Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Description

Recent Canadian foreign policy has fixated upon Canada's former status as a middle power within a small club of western, democratic states. The emergence of a US-dominated world and of an integrated North American economy and the decline of multilateral rules and institutions as prime instruments of global governance have left Canadian foreign policy searching for new purpose and direction. From Pride to Influence brings Canadian foreign policy into the twenty-first century by grounding it in a conception of the national interest that accepts the primacy of the United States in guaranteeing Canadian national security and prosperity.