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The Politics of Linkage

By (author) Brian Bow
Categories: Political Science

Do Canada and the United States share a special relationship, or is this just a face-saving myth, masking dependency and domination? The Politics of Linkage cuts through the rhetoric that clouds this debate ...

Bomb Canada

By (author) Chantal Allan
Categories: History of the Americas

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Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent.
Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have
Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan ...

Our Place in the Sun

Edited by Robert Wright & Lana Wylie
Categories: Literary essays

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon ...

Pearson's Peacekeepers

By (author) Michael K. Carroll
Categories: Military history

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada’s enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson’s ...

Canada's Voice

By (author) Adam Chapnick
Categories: Politics and government

It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International ...

An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?

By (author) Brian Bow & Patrick Lennox
Categories: Political Science

Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. ...

Lines Drawn upon the Water

Edited by Karl S. Hele
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine ...

The Uncertain Business of Doing Good

By (author) Larry Krotz
Categories: Development studies

The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The ...

Mission of Folly

MISSION OF FOLLY is a candid report on Canada?s participation in America?s ?War onTerror? in Afghanistan. Laxer explores the policy vacuum that resulted in Canadian troopsbeing sent to fight a war that ...

Ambassador Assignments

By (author) David C. Reece
Categories: Diplomacy

Whether guarding our interests in Washington during sensitive talks on free trade, acid rain and the environment, fighting Apartheid in South Africa, witnessing the Communist revolution in China, or representing ...