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Price: $86.95

Format:
Paperback 400 pp.
6" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195421094

ISBN-13:
9780195421095

Copyright Year:
2008

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Canada's International Policies

Agendas, Alternatives, and Politics

Brian Tomlin, Norman Hillmer and Fen Hampson

Canada's International Policies is a landmark study of policy change and innovation in Canada's international relations. It explains why policies change when they do. The volume provides students of Canada's international relations with a close-up view of the critical factors and forces that contribute to policy transformation so that they can understand the how and why of the policy making process. It shows how policy makers wrestle with tough policy choices and why they end up making the decisions they do.

The breadth of the volume is impressive, focusing on important turning points in the evolution of Canada's international policies across the domains of trade, investment, development, defence, and human security from the early days of the Cold War to the present. It describes a changing international environment and how that environment has impinged on policy choices. It also discusses the complex domestic and bureaucratic politics of decision-making.

Canada's International Policies offers an innovative application of an evolutionary multiple streams model of decision-making to explain why certain problems land on the policy agenda and why a particular policy alternative is selected to address specific problems. In doing so, it highlights the importance of statecraft and the specific qualities of leadership that come into play in the ongoing policy battles between ideas, interests, and values. Unlike so many texts on international relations that offer dry, theoretical discussions of the foreign policy process, Canada's International Policies gives students a real taste of the rough and tumble world of decision-making, viewed through the lens of a sophisticated, analytical framework.

Readership : A core textbook for courses in Canadian foreign policy, aimed at upper-level undergraduate courses.

1. Canada in International Affairs
Part I
2. Streams in the Investment Policy Process
3. The Evolution of Foreign Investment Policy
Part II
4. Streams in the Trade Policy Process
5. The Evolution of International Trade Policy
Part III
6. Streams in the Defence Policy Process
7. The Evolution of National Defence Policy
Part IV
8. Streams in the Development Policy Process
9. The Evolution of International Development Policy
Part V
10. Streams in the Human Security Policy Process
11. The Evolution of Human Security Policy
12. Canada's International Policies
Case Studies
Introduction
1. Lisa Baroldi: Policy Making and the Culture/Trade Quandry
2. John Cadham: Negotiating the Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines
3. Anemone Fritzen: Sino-Canadian Relations, 1949-2005
4. Kevin Ma: Canada-US Relations and the Devils Lake Dispute
5. Maite Ormaechea: Turning the Corner on the Kyoto Protocol
6. Kate Press: International Assistance to Secure Access to Essential Medicines

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Brian Tomlin and Fen Hampson are both professors of international affairs at The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. Fen Hampson's review interests are international organization, international negotiation, and conflict resolution and analysis, while Brian Tomlin's review interests are International bargaining and negotiation, trade policy, Canadian foreign policy and Canada-United States relations. Norman Hillmer is professor of history and international affairs, whose research interests are comprised of peace operations, NATO, and trade negotiations in the 1930s.

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Special Features

  • Text examines Canadian foreign policy through the three key streams of problems, policies, and politics.
  • Explores the context of Canada's foreign policy.
  • Examines the changing policy agendas of government.
  • Identifies key actors and institutions, and examines how foreign policy gets made.
  • Identifies and examines the role of politics in the decision-making process.
  • Examines specific issues in foreign policy, such as defence, development, foreign investment, human security, and trade.
  • Includes six provocative case studies that involve readers in real-life scenarios to spark classroom discussion.