After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe, Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope, (eds)
| Date | 01 September 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020702017723559 |
| Published date | 01 September 2017 |
| Author | Jez Littlewood |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
material on Paul Martin and Stephen Harper’s terms in office, as well as the evolving
role of the political executive, bureaucracy, and Parliament. There is also a greater
emphasis on international trade and Quebec’s foreign relations, especially in the last
two chapters on provincial governments and ‘‘Que
´bec’s paradiplomatie identitaire.’’
As always, the new edition will be critiqued by some observers. The authors
unapologetically offer no normative insight, and purposely fail to ‘‘settle the
debate’’ over the primacy of international and domestic considerations in the for-
mulation of Canadian foreign policy (15). The lack of a concluding chapter in all
but the first edition also forces readers to infer overall linkages running throughout
the deep descriptive content, other than the already-noted comments provided in
the preface of the book. Still others will point to its limited observations related to
issues of class and gender.
Having said that, anyone wanting to gain an understanding of the actors and
processes contributing to Canada’s contemporary foreign policy must read this
book. Selfishly, I hope the legacy of The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy
endures well into the future. It has, and will continue to have, an irreplaceable
role in the understanding and teaching of Canada’s foreign relations. For the past
15 years, my Canadian Foreign Policy course has focused extensively on domestic
actors and processes. My research also reflects an ongoing fascination with mul-
tiple levels of analysis. In many ways, this is all due to The Politics of Canadian
Foreign Policy, in its various incarnations.
Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope, (eds),
After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada,
Europe, and Around the Globe, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 256pp.
$70.00 (cloth),
ISBN: 978-1-4426-3000-0
Reviewed by: Jez Littlewood, Carleton University
After the ‘‘summer of terror’’ in Europe in 2016, readers picking up After the Paris
Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe may expect a book
about recent terrorism in Europe. It is, but not in the manner they may first believe.
The Paris attacks in the title refer to the 7 January 2015 assault on the offices of the
magazine Charlie Hebdo by Saı
¨d and Che
´rif Kouachi, the separate 7 January attack
by Amedy Coulibaly, and the 9 January attack by Coulibaly on a kosher grocery
store. The Kouachi brothers killed eleven, injured eleven, and during their escape
summarily executed a prostrate police officer. After an extensive hunt across Paris,
they were killed in a shoot-out on 9 January. Coulibaly first shot and injured a jogger
and then killed a police officer and a city worker, before killing a further four Jewish
shoppers at the supermarket. He was killed when police stormed the building.
This edited collection draws upon contributions from a conference on 9 March
2015 at the University of Toronto. With two exceptions, all twenty-four contribu-
tors are Torontonians by location.
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