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Editors’ Introduction

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AuthorJack Cunningham,Brian Bow
Date01 June 2019
Published date01 June 2019
DOI10.1177/0020702019859717
Subject MatterEditors’ Introduction
SG-IJXJ190036 189..190
International Journal
2019, Vol. 74(2) 189–190
Editors’ Introduction
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As the second issue in this volume, IJ 74/2 is the John Holmes issue on Canadian
foreign policy, featuring a number of thoughtful and topical comments on con-
temporary Canadian policy debates. We begin with Adam Chapnick’s review of the
origins of Canada’s feminist foreign policy, which challenges the conventional
view that Justin Trudeau brought this agenda with him when he took power in
2015, arguing that policy makers were heading in this direction well before Trudeau
arrived. Next, Adam Lajeunesse and Rob Huebert argue that the ‘‘agree-
to-disagree’’ formula that Canadian and American governments have abided by
in papering over disagreements about Arctic sovereignty may not be sustainable
under the Trump administration, and propose some guidelines for Canadian
policy-makers. Rounding out the ‘‘Canadian content’’ in IJ 74/2, we have an
essay by Kerstin Fisher and Laszlo Sarkany, on Canada’s approach to the
International Criminal Court. Fisher and Sarkany argue that while Canada has
advocated for a more ambitious ICC, it has not backed up its rhetorical position
with concrete support for the Court, politically or f‌inancially, and this ultimately
undermines the Court.
IJ 74/2 also features some important contributions on global politics more
broadly, by scholars based outside Canada. Monica Jeong returns to the theoret-
ical foundations of the ‘‘middle power’’ concept—highlighted in IJ special issues
73/4 and IJ 74/1—and makes the case for switching to a ‘‘critical realist’’ approach.
That’s followed by Michael De Groot’s historical analysis of the collapse of the
Bretton Woods system, which argues that at least some of the blame—usually
aimed at the US—also belongs to Western...

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