Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care

by Doran, Charles F.

• ISBN13: 9780802083913
• ISBN10: 0802083919
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Charles Doran examines why Canadian unity is important, what drives Quebec separatism in the American view, and the nature of the historical era that has shaped and conditioned secessionist impulse.

Author Biography

Charles F. Doran is The Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Challenges to Democratic Pluralism	3	(34)
Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary	5	(11)
Cultural Identity and Politics	16	(6)
The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism	22	(5)
The Challenge to Liberal Democracy	27	(10)
A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity	37	(29)
What Underlies U.S. Preferences?	40	(6)
The Economic Claim to Wholeness	46	(9)
Defence of the North American Continent: The Security Claim	55	(5)
Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and Cohesion	60	(6)
Will Quebec Secede?	66	(40)
How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec Nationalism	66	(3)
Factors Contributing to Separation	69	(14)
Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic?	83	(5)
Sources of Resistance to Disunity	88	(8)
Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism	96	(4)
Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises	100	(4)
No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge	104	(2)
Could English Canada Unravel?	106	(29)
Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces	109	(4)
`Transfer Payments' Would End	113	(6)
Effervescence of `Western Alienation'	119	(7)
The `Ontario Problem'	126	(5)
The North American Crucible	131	(4)
Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion?	135	(27)
State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution	137	(6)
The Influence of the International System on Secession	143	(2)
Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism	145	(5)
Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the Future	150	(3)
Centralization, Globalization, and North America	153	(9)
Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism?	162	(28)
Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec	162	(4)
The Structure of World Order and Trade	166	(8)
Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic Growth	174	(4)
Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold	178	(5)
Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession	183	(1)
Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy	184	(1)
Assessing the Policy Implications	185	(5)
What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century?	190	(35)
Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic Pluralism	191	(1)
Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails	192	(7)
Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible?	199	(3)
Probing Plan B	202	(5)
Responding to the ROC If Quebec Seceds	207	(9)
Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism	216	(1)
Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization	217	(5)
Summing Up the Options and the Consequences	222	(3)
Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism	225	(28)
The Threat to Democratic Pluralism	225	(3)
Divisive Nationalism	228	(8)
Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism	236	(1)
The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism	237	(6)
Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum	243	(6)
Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism	249	(4)
Notes	253	(38)
Index	291