Canada's Foreign and Security Policy Soft and Hard Strategies of a Middle Power

by Hynek, Nik; Bosold, David; Clarkson, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780195431698
• ISBN10: 0195431693
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ideally suited to courses in Canadian foreign policy and Canadian security studies, this new text evaluates Canada's place in the world along three dimensions: the country's role as a middle power; its embrace of 'soft power' and the limits of this approach to foreign and security policy; and how, in the wake of9/11, Canada has responded in hard-power terms-in Afghanistan, within NATO, in the Arctic-to the new realities of an unstable international system. Objective and critical, the editors and their contributors give a realistic assessment of Canada's role in the world today-its surprising successes on the international stage and its abject failures-and of the place of foreign policy in the Canadian psyche.

Author Biography

Nik Hynek is research fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic; lecturer, Charles University and Metropolitan University, Prague; and visiting research scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.
David Bosold is head of the International Forum on Strategic Thinking at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

Forward	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Contributors	p. x
Introduction: What Is Canadian Foreign and Security Policy? How Should We Study It? Why Does It Matter?	p. xii
Re-examing Middlepowerhood in Canada's Foreign and Security Policy	p. 1
Whither the Middle-Power Identity? Transformation in the Canadian Foreign and Security Milieus	p. 3
'Middlepowerhood' and 'Middlepowermanship' in Canadian Foreign Policy	p. 20
Canada as a Middle, Model, or Civilian Power: What's in a Name?	p. 35
Questions for Critical Thought	p. 56
Re-examining Canada's Soft Power	p. 59
How 'Soft' Is Canada's Soft Power in the Field of Human Security?	p. 61
The Transformation of Canada's Development Policy through the Security-Development Approach	p. 81
The Diplomacy of a Middle Power: Innovation and Its Limits	p. 101
Canadian Middle-Power Identity, Environmental Biopolitics, and Human Insecurity	p. 121
Superpower, Middle Power, or Satellite? Canadian Energy and Environmental Policy	p. 138
Questions for Critical Thought	p. 162
Re-examining Canada's Hard Power	p. 167
The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Dilemma of the Canadian Armed Forces	p. 169
A Security Community-'If You Can Keep It': Societal Security, Demography, and the North American Zone of Peace	p. 189
Canada's Responses to Terrorism: Human Security at Home?	p. 212
Canada and the Atlantic Alliance in the Post-Cold War Era: More NATO than NATO?	p. 231
Canada's Arctic Policy: Transcending the Middle-Power Model?	p. 251
Questions for Critical Thought	p. 276
Conclusion	p. 280
Index	p. 287
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