Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project by Kristen Hopewell

DOI10.1177/0020702017740104
Published date01 December 2017
Date01 December 2017
Subject MatterBook Reviews
SG-IJXJ-72-04-TOC 1..2 Book Reviews
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is exclusively on these types of military interventions. Canada, for example, has
neither the motivation nor the opportunity to engage in unilateral military inter-
ventions. Since the literature catalogues many countries that do, however, it would
make sense to clearly communicate this to the reader.
This book makes three contributions. Firstly, the editors consciously bridge the
gap between academics and practitioners—in the government and military—by
incorporating feedback from university professors, defence scientists, public ser-
vants, and senior military of‌f‌icers from Canada, Germany, and the US. With col-
laborators from the Royal Military College of Canada, Canadian Department of
National Defence, Canadian Armed Forces, German Armed Forces, and US
Army, the core f‌indings and policy recommendations are likely to be of interest
to a wide audience. Secondly, this compilation stands out in the f‌ield as a compre-
hensive pedagogical tool for teachers leading classes on alliance politics, military
intervention, and foreign policy. While the chapters clearly stand alone as legitim-
ate contributions to ongoing debates about the use of force abroad, together they
of‌fer students an expansive overview with sundry methods, like comparative pol-
itical and historical analysis, strategic forecasting, survey techniques, and red team-
ing analysis. Thirdly, this edited volume joins a wave of recent Canadian
scholarship on military intervention with explicit implications for Canadian pol-
icymakers, such as Canada Among Nations’ Elusive Pursuits: Lessons from
Canada’s Interventions Abroad (2015) and the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal’s
special issue, Problems Abroad? Revisiting the Intervention Trap in an Era of Global
Uncertainty (2017). For a f‌ield dominated by US-centric research and case studies,
this timely Canadian-focused compendium of military intervention is a valuable
and welcome addition to the literature.
Kristen Hopewell
Breaking the WTO: How Emerging...

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