Canadian Foreign Policy: Defining the National Interest

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University of Toronto Press, 01.01.2006 - 276 Seiten

In Canadian Foreign Policy: Defining the National Interest Steven Holloway puts the "policy" back into "foreign policy." By returning to the National Interest Perspective (NIP), this book provides an important method of analysis for foreign policy issues. As adopted here, the NIP forces the reader to think explicitly about the goals of government action and the assumptions that underlie them. This approach requires planning ahead and prioritizing Canadian objectives. It demands that Canada set aside the preoccupation with the interests of each societal group, province, or region, and think about what is to the benefit of all Canadians. No matter how dissonant the resulting broad public debate might be, Steven Holloway advocates the importance of finding general, large-scale interests that unite the national political community. For the reader, this book organizes and simplifies the various threads of Canada's foreign relations by concentrating them into a handful of enduring themes or national interests: national security (including territorial sovereignty), political autonomy, national unity, economic prosperity, and principled self-image (identity).

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List of Tables and Figures
1
Chapter
8
List of Tables and Figures
13
The Question of Priorities
16
FIGURES
23
Chapter Three
37
Canadian Perceptions of the Soviet Threat
53
EconomySized Global Security
101
Preserving Political Autonomy
131
Political Conflicts under Pearson
145
Defending Economic and Cultural Autonomy
153
The Mulroney Revolution
166
Chapter 10
191
Chapter 11
221
From the Realm of Ideas to the Realm of Practices
241
Bibliography
259

Achieving Political Autonomy
115

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Steven Kendall Holloway is Professor at St. Francis Xavier University where he has been teaching and writing about Canadian foreign policy for over twenty years.

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