Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders

Hillmer, Norman

Granatstein, Jack L.

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Canada and the United States are two huge, blessed countries that have coexisted for a very long time. They are shaped by different traditions and moulded by different forces. At the same time, there are no two publics on earth that are more similar in their pluralistic values, their attitudes to the world, and their unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy. For Better or Worse: Canada and the United States in the 21st Century explores this relationship. Is there really a "best friendship" rooted in an American respect for the plucky little ally-adversary to the north, or has Canadian collaboration simply allowed U.S. imperialism to take a refined form? How have Canadians managed to maintain their own separate identity, and why have Americans been content to let them do so?

For Better or for Worse: Canada and the United States Into the Twenty-first Century (InfoTrac College Edition)

History

Americas

Nelson College Indigenous

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, defense, 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.

Canada's International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives, and Politics

Tomlin, Brian

Hampson, Fen

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The First British Commonwealth: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Mansergh

Mansergh, Nicholas

Wigley, Philip G.

Europe

Routledge

Book by Granatstein, J. L., Hillmer, Norman

For Better or for Worse Canada and United States to the 1990s

Granatstein, J.L.

Longman Pub. Group

Empire to Umpire provides a survey of Canada''s foreign policies and varying roles in international affairs, from dutiful member of the British Empire to second-tier power and peacekeeper. Beginning before the turn of the century when Canada took its first faltering steps into nationhood, Norman Hillmer and J.L. Granatstein, two of Canada''s leading historians, offer fresh insights into the events, the ideas, and the personalities that have influenced Canada''s participation in world affairs. Two competing forces dominate our international persona: the reliance on imperial strength, first British then American, for our security and economic prosperity; and the strong impulse to do what is right in, and for, the world. What happens when the "choirboy at the Concert of Nations" is called upon to sing duets with a dowager aunt or a rich southern uncle? That is the story Hillmer and Granatstein succeed in telling in this richly illustrated history of Canadian foreign policy.

Empire to Umpire: Canada and the World to the 1990s

Copp Clark Longman

In this collection of essays marking the centenary of Pearson's birth, eighteen leading academics, journalists, public servants, and politicians recreate and reassess Pearson's premiership from 1963 to 1968. Robert Bothwell (Toronto) introduces Pearson the man and Denis Stairs (Dalhousie) presents his political ideas. Governor General award-winning author and journalist Christina McCall and J.L. Granatstein (Canadian Institute of International Affairs) compare Pearson and his nemesis, John Diefenbaker. Stephen Azzi (House of Commons) and Greg Donaghy (Department of Foreign Affairs) write respectively about the prime minister's relations with Walter Gordon and Paul Martin Sr. Tom Kent (Queen's) and Penny Bryden (Mount Allison) discuss the Pearson welfare state, while Claude Ryan, editor of Le Devoir in the 1960s, and Michael Behiels (Ottawa) debate national unity. Patrick Brennan (Calgary) looks at the media. Monique Bégin (Ottawa), Andrew Cohen (Globe and Mail), Blair Neatby (Carleton), and former public servants Ross Campbell, Al Johnson, Geoffrey Pearson, and Gordon Robertson gauge the scope of Pearson's legacy. The collection also includes an introduction by the editor and a foreword by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

McGill-Queen's University Press

Canada Among Nations, 2004: Setting Priorities Straight

Much of the recent public debate about Canada's foreign policy has focused on issues of resources and management of Canada-U.S. relations. Groups such as Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the Public Policy Forum have issued reports calling for an increase in defence spending, a comprehensive review of foreign policy, and a concentration on Canada-U.S. relations. Prime Minister Paul Martin has moved swiftly to restructure the foreign policy machinery of government. Canada-U.S. Relations and the appointment of a parliamentary secretary to the prime minister for Canada-U.S. relations. Mr Martin gave foreign policy a prominent place in his acceptance speech to the Liberal leadership convention. Like other countries, he said, we must come to grips with the fact that the United States has emerged as the world's lone superpower. We need a proud partnership based on mutual respect with our closest friend and nearest neighbour. Two nations with many shared values but each acting independently. In one of his first acts as prime minister, Mr Martin initiated a joint, systematic defence and foreign policy review.

Canada Among Nations, 2004: Setting Priorities Straight (Canada Among Nations Series) (Volume 6)

CARMENT, DAVID

Osler Hampson, Fen

Much of the recent public debate about Canada's foreign policy has focused on issues of resources and management of Canada-U.S. relations. Groups such as Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the Public Policy Forum have issued reports calling for an increase in defence spending, a comprehensive review of foreign policy, and a concentration on Canada-U.S. relations. Prime Minister Paul Martin has moved swiftly to restructure the foreign policy machinery of government. Among his key initiatives are the creation of a new Cabinet Committee on Canada-U.S. Relations and the appointment of a parliamentary secretary to the prime minister for Canada-U.S. relations. Mr Martin gave foreign policy a prominent place in his acceptance speech to the Liberal leadership convention. Like other countries, he said, we must come to grips with the fact that the United States has emerged as the world's lone superpower. We need a proud partnership based on mutual respect with our closest friend and nearest neighbour. Two nations with many shared values but each acting independently. In one of his first acts as prime minister, Mr Martin initiated a joint, systematic defence and foreign p

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century

This edited work offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings, uses, and contradictions of nationalism, critical to contemporary understandings of Canada and Canadians.

Chapnick, Adam

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