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Print Price: $124.99

Format:
Paperback
368 pp.
1 table, 6" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195443691

Copyright Year:
2013

Imprint: OUP Canada


Canada in the World

Internationalism in Canadian Foreign Policy

Heather A. Smith and Claire Turenne Sjolander

Canada in the World brings together leading academics of internationalism and Canadian foreign policy to offer unique and theoretically original interpretations of Canada's current role on the world's stage. Exploring foreign policy developments of the last twenty years, this text analyzes how they deviate or reinforce traditional perceptions of Canada abroad.

Readership : Canada in the World is targeted at Canadian foreign policy courses taught out of political science departments across Canada.

Reviews

  • "The use of internationalism as an organizing concept to assess and unpack foreign policy in the current Harper era is compelling and timely."

    --Edna Keeble, St. Mary's University

Heather A. Smith and Claire Turenne Sjolander: Introduction: Conversations without Consensus - Internationalism under the Harper Government
Part I: Internationalism from the Inside
1. Heather Smith: Teaching Internationalism: Bringing Canada and the World into the Classroom
2. Kim Richard Nossal: The Liberal Past in the Conservative Present: Internationalism in the Harper Era
3. Justin Massie and Stéphane Roussel: The Twilight of Internationalism? Neocontinentalism as an Emerging Dominant Idea in Canadian Foreign Policy
4. Jean-Christope Boucher: The Responsibility to Think Clearly about Interests: Stephen Harper's Realist Internationalism, 2006-2011
5. Anita Singh: Internationalism in Canada-India Bilateral Relations under Stephen Harper
6. Andrew Lui: Sleeping with the Dragon: The Harper Government, China, and How Not to Do Human Rights
7. Paul Gecelovsky: The Prime Minister and the Parable: Stephen Harper and Personal Responsibility Internationalism
8. Daryl Copeland: Once Were Diplomats: Can Canadian Internationalism Be Rekindled?
Part II: Internationalism from the Outside
9. Mark B. Salter: Citizenship, Borders, and Mobility: Managing the Population of Canada and the World
10. Veronica M. Kitchen: Where Is Internationalism? Canada-US Relations in the Context of the Global and the Local
11. Krystel Carrier and Rebecca Tiessen: Women and Children First: Maternal Health and the Silencing of Gender in Canadian Foreign Policy
12. Heather A. Smith: Forget the Fine Tuning: Internationalism, the Arctic, and Climate Change
13. David Black: The Harper Government, Africa Policy, and the Relative Decline of Humane Internationalism
14. Claire Turenne Sjolander: Canada and the Afghan "Other": Identity, Difference, and Foreign Policy
Claire Turenne Sjolander and Heather A. Smith: Conclusion Canada, the World and the Inside/Outside of Internationalism

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Heather A. Smith is professor of International Studies in the Department of International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is a 3M National Teaching Fellow (2006) and a two-time UNBC Teaching Excellence Award winner.

Claire Turenne Sjolander is professor of Political Science at the School of Political Studies and vice-dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is the recipient of the University of Ottawa's Excellence in Education Award for 2008-9 and the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award for 2012.

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Special Features

  • Unique critical perspective. More than a traditional survey of the topic, this text offers a critical assessment of foreign policy as it relates to Canada's current and desired place in the world.
  • Coverage of the Harper government's approach to foreign policy. Explores the Conservative government's successes and failures in foreign policy since they came to power in 2006.
  • Features fourteen original essays. An unparalleled list of contributors explore issues such as Canada-US relations since 9/11, human rights intervention in China, and bilateral negotiations with India.
  • Exposes students to a wide range of political science perspectives - including Canadian politics, foreign policy, international relations, and global affairs.