Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas

by Christopher J. Kukucha and Duane Bratt

This is a reader for courses in Canadian foreign policy--it can be used on its own as a core text or alongside a single-authored text. The book is structured in six sections covering a broad range of topics: approaches to Canadian Foreign Policy; external sources; domestic sources of CFP; security; trade and economic issues; and social considerations, which include human rights, environment, and development issues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195423690
• ISBN13: 9780195423693
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages

Customer Reviews

a role independent of the US

As a developed country, living under the shadow of the US, Canada has had various choices of foreign policy. The book is a collection of papers by Canadian intellectuals about what these choices were or could be. One common theme is how, as a "Middle power", Canada can distinguish itself usefully from the US. This plays itself out in ways like encouraging a multilateralist approach to international issues like the environment, or unrest in some nations. One big effort has been to engage with Africa. By directing substantial aid to promote development and health. Another theme is how to manage the relationship with the US. Especially in the so-called War on Terror. But also economically. As in having closer trade and investment relations, in aiding Canada's prosperity.