Editors’ Introduction

Date01 September 2016
AuthorBrian Bow,Jack Cunningham
DOI10.1177/0020702016664717
Published date01 September 2016
Subject MatterEditors’ Introduction
International Journal
2016, Vol. 71(3) 349–350
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Editors’ Introduction
How much does Canadian foreign policy revolve around calculations of economic
advantage? Our current issue opens with a penetrating assessment of the Harper
government’s economic diplomacy, by two promising young scholars, Asa
McKercher and Leah Sarson. Continuing our focus on recent events, Aaron
Ettinger and Jef‌frey Rice assess Canada’s limited-term military deployments
from 2001 through 2015. Paul Meyer then takes us back to the years of the f‌irst
Prime Minister Trudeau, with an exploration of his thinking about the ‘‘suf‌foca-
tion’’ of the nuclear arms race. Stepping still further back, Kirk Niergath and J.L.
Black illuminate a neglected episode in interwar diplomacy, unearthing the Soviet
view of the proposed Canada–Soviet barter agreement.
Events in Syria continue to claim our attention, and Tom Najem, Walter
C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, and Sarah Cipkar bring us a groundbreaking
study of the debate over invocation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the
Syrian case, as ref‌lected in the pages of the Globe and Mail and National Post.
Then, Bill Park turns his eye to the knotty situation posed by the rise of Islamic
State and Turkey’s problematic relations with the Kurds. Cynthia Banham exam-
ines Canadian responses to the torture of citizens abroad and f‌inds these more
complex and perhaps less commendable than we might link to think. And in our
Lessons of History feature, Stephanie Bangarth evokes an early episode in
Canadian anti-apartheid activism, pertaining to Air Canada package tours to
Rhodesia and South Africa.
Finally, we close the issue out with the usual passel of reviews of recent books in
international relations and related f‌ields. This September, Mathilde Von Bu
¨low
steps down as Book Review Editor to concentrate on other responsibilities. We
thank her for her hard work and for expanding the book review section’s coverage
into new areas during her tenure. Of course, we wish her well in her future
endeavours.
It is not a particularly auspicious way for a new editorial team to begin, but we
need to acknowledge an error in the production of issue 71/2. The wrong versions
of two articles were sent to the production team at SAGE, and the mistake was not
discovered until production was too far along for the necessary changes to be
made. The most signif‌icant problems were with Srdjan Vucetic’s excellent article

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