An independent foreign policy for Canada? : challenges and choices for the future / edited by Brian Bow and Patrick Lennox.

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Divided into sections about the history of Canadian foreign policy, diplomacy, security, economics, decision-making and new policy issues, this collection of prominent political scientists provides valuable and timely perspectives on the state of Canada's international relations in the twenty-first century.

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CHOICE Review

Some four decades ago, the University League for Social Reform in Canada published an edited volume by a young scholar named Stephen Clarkson presenting different perspectives on the feasibility and desirability of Canada pursuing an autonomous foreign policy. This volume later became the standard academic work on this topic and has influenced how Canadians have framed the issue of pursuing a foreign policy independent from the US. The world today has changed significantly from the bipolar one that informed much of the debate in the Clarkson book. Nonetheless, the fundamentals of the debate between the proponents of a "quiet diplomacy" as opposed to an "independent" foreign policy have persisted in the past 40 years. The present edited volume, which has the same title as the Clarkson book, brings together a range of sophisticated essays that seek to analyze the pros and cons of the two aforementioned trends in Canadian foreign policy debates in the post-Cold War era. The essays do not provide clear answers to Canada's foreign policy dilemma. Instead, they analyze a range of complex and interdependent variables that will continue to affect contending and conflicting trends in Canada's foreign policy options in the 21st century. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate and above. N. Entessar University of South Alabama