Canada First, Not Canada Alone - Adam Chapnick

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Résumé :
Three recent Canadian prime ministers, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, and Justin Trudeau made the same claim shortly after forming a government: Canada is Back. Martin promised to reinvest in world affairs. Harper was focused on the military. Trudeau meant more involvement at the UN. Each leader made foreign policy a part of their political brand because they recognized that in today's world, domestic and international politics are interconnected. Canada can no longer take care of its own interests if it ignores the world around it.

This book traces the history of Canadian foreign policy from a time when positioning Canada First meant shunning international obligations to today. It highlights key decisions taken and not taken in Ottawa that have shaped Canadians' safety, security, and prosperity over the last one hundred years. Case studies focused on environmental reform, Indigenous peoples, trade, hostage diplomacy, and wartime strategy illustrate the breadth of issues that shape contemporary Canada's global realm.

Together, these cases reveal a country that has benefited from diplomatic prudence and compromise even as its citizens have yearned for their elected officials to be world leaders. This book argues that, like any country, Canada must look out for its own interests first, but in the modern world it can't do so effectively without cooperating with other states and non-state actors.

Written by two of Canada's leading foreign policy analysts, Canada First, Not Canada Alone is the definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s....

Sommaire:

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Ideas and Antecedents


• Chapter 2: William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Evolution of Canada's Global Posture, 1935-1948


• Case Studies: The Voyage of the MS St Louis, 1939


• The Hyde Park Declaration, 1941


• The Debate over Article 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949


• Granting the Great Powers a Veto in the United Nations Organization, 1945


• Chapter 3: Louis St. Laurent and the Expansion of the Canadian Foreign Policy Realm, 1948-1957


• Case Studies: The Launch of the Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in


• South and Southeast Asia, 1950-1951


• The Establishment of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, 1953-1957


• The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956


• Attending the 10th Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States (OAS) as


• an Observer, 1952-1954


• Chapter 4: John Diefenbaker and the Politics of Foreign Policy Decision-making, 1957-1963


• Case Studies: The Establishment of the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), 1957-1958


• South Africa's Withdrawal from the Commonwealth, 1960-1961


• Negotiations to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, 1957-1963


• Responding to the White House's Decision to Move American NORAD forces to


• Defence Condition (DEFCON) 3 without Consulting Ottawa during the Cuban Missile Crisis,


• 1962


• Chapter 5: Lester B. Pearson and the Domestic Implications of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1963-1968


• Case Studies: The Promulgation of the G?rin-Lajoie Doctrine, 1965


• Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Speech at Temple University, 1965


• Managing the Impact of Split-run Magazines in Canada, 1964-1965


• Chapter 6: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the Re-imagination of Canada First, 1968-1984


• Case Studies: Reconsidering Canada's Military Role in NATO, 1968-1969


• The Voyages of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage, 1968-1970


• Joe Clark's Proposal to Move the Canadian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,


• 1979-1980


• The National Energy Program, 1980-1984


• Recognizing the People's Republic of China (PRC), 1968-1970


• Chapter 7: Brian Mulroney and the Transformation of Canadian International Affairs, 1984-1993


• Case Studies: Responding to Famine in Ethiopia, 1984-1986


• The Origins of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, 1983-1989


• Negotiating the Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement, 1991


• Responding to Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, 1990-1991


• Chapter 8: Jean Chr?tien, Frugality, and Boldness, 1993-2001


• Case Studies: The Turbot War, 1994-1995


• The International Campaign to Ban Anti-personnel Landmines, 1994-1997


• NATO's Military Intervention in Kosovo, 1998-1999


• Conflict Diamonds in Angola and UN Security Council Sanctions Reform, 1999-2000


• Chapter 9: Jean Chr?tien, Paul Martin, and the Aftermath of 9/11, 2000-2006


• Case Studies: The Kyoto Protocol, 1997-2002


• Canada's Response to the American Decision to Invade Iraq, 2002-2003


• Deploying to Kandahar Province, 2003-2005


• Participating in the United States Ballistic Missile Defense Program, 2003-2006


• Chapter 10: Stephen Harper's Conservative Values on the World Stage, 2006-2015


• Case Studies: Affirming Support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous


• Peoples ...