A Perilous Imbalance
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
This timely exploration of Canada’s involvement as a middle power in a globalizing world offers a practical yet often radical analysis that sets it apart as a challenging contribution to a pressing subject.
Description
Through an examination of Canadians' complicated roles as agents and objects of globalization, this book shows how Canada's experience of and contribution to globalized governance is characterized by serious imbalances. It explores these imbalances by tracing three interlinked developments: the emergence of a neoconservative supraconstitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. Advocating a revitalized Canadian state as a vehicle for pursuing human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation, and for creating spaces in which progressive, alternative forms of law and governance can unfold, this book offers a compelling analysis of the challenges that middle powers and their citizens face in a globalizing world.
Awards
- Short-listed, Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association 2011