In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909–2009 ...

• Main Author: Unkn Unknown
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: University of Calgary Press 2011
• Subjects: Canada > Foreign relations; Canada. Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade > History; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/34588; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48549

Series: Beyond boundaries Canadian defence and strategic studies series, 1925-2919 (Online); 3 ... : Canada's role as world power and its sense of itself in the global landscape has been largely shaped and defined over the past 100 years by the changing policies and personalities in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). This engaging and provocative book brings together fifteen of the country's leading historians and political scientists to discuss a century of Canada's national interests and DFAIT's role in defining and pursuing them. Accomplished and influential analysts such as Jack Granatstein, Norman Hillmer, and Nelson Michaud, are joined by rising stars like Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Chapnick, and Tammy Nemeth in commenting on the history and future implications of Canada's foreign policy. In the National Interest gives fresh insight into the Canada First concept in the 1920s, the North American security issues in the 1930s, Canada's vision for the United Nations, early security warnings in the Arctic, the rise of the international francophone community, conflicting ...