Trans-Atlantic Partners: Canadian Approaches to the European Union

By Evan H. Potter

The end of the Cold War and the advent of the European Union (EU) as an emerging political actor have fundamentally changed Canada's approach to its relations with Western Europe. Trans-Atlantic Partners traces the Canadian Government's reassessment of its traditional Atlanticist foreign policy orientation by looking at the rising importance of the EU as a key "pillar" in Canada's post-World War II trans-Atlantic relations.

The study concentrates on changes in Canada's approach to European integration after the watershed of 1989, examining the 1990 EC-Canada Transatlantic Declaration and the emergence of a Single European Market in 1993. Finally, it outlines the choices available to Canadian policy makers in the late 1990s as they sought to widen relations with the EU by proposing a trans-Atlantic free trade zone.

This book details important stages in the evolution of Canada-EU economic, political, and security relations, a bilateral relationship that is destined to grow closer in the years ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886293464
• ISBN13: 9780886293468
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"