Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy

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Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Tackling recent developments in Canadian foreign policy, the authors of this work spotlight Canadian idiosyncrasies within a global context that are defined by wrenching juxtapositions. The specialists who have contributed their expertise to this book provide sophisticated analysis-conceptual as well as historical-rather than simply impressionistic judgments about contemporary events. Highlighting both well-known and understudied topics, this handbook presents a marriage of the familiar and the underappreciated that enables readers to grasp much of the complexity of current Canadian foreign policy and appreciate the challenges policymakers must meet in the early 21st century.

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...this is a very useful book... -- July 2007 * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *
This is a collection of insightful essays that also provide a veritable tour d'horizon of the major issues in the formulation and execution of contemporary Canadian foreign policy. -- Joseph T. Jockel, St.Lawrence University

Author Bio

Originally from Montreal, Marc J. O'Reilly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg College, where he teaches courses on Canadian foreign policy and other International Relations subjects. His work on Canadian foreign policy has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, The American Review of Canadian Studies, and International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis (Lexington Books). Patrick James is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park). James is the author of ten books and over a hundred articles and book chapters. Nelson Michaud is Associate professor of Political Science and International Relations, Chair of the Groupe d'Ztudes, de recherche et de formation internationales (GERFI), and Chair of the Laboratoire d'Ztude sur les politiques publiques et la mondialisation at the Ycole nationale d'administration publique; he is Fellow of the Canadian Defence and foreign Affairs Institute, Researcher-Member of the Institut QuZbZcois des Hautes Ytudes Internationales, Associate Researcher at the Centre d'Ztudes interamZricaines and Research fellow at the Centre for foreign policy studies (Dalhousie University).