Review: Canada among Nations 2008 100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy

Published date01 March 2010
AuthorKim Richard Nossal
DOI10.1177/002070201006500116
Date01 March 2010
Subject MatterComing AttractionsReview
| International Journal | Winter 2009-10 | 255 |
CANADA AMONG NATIONS 2008
100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy
Robert Bothwell and Jean Daudelin, editors
Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 400pp,
$29.95 paper
ISBN 978-0773534384
Since 1984 the Canada Among Nations series has established itself as a
central and indispensible source for research and analysis on Canada’s
international policy. Over the years, through numerous editorial teams and
several publishers, the series, produced by and for the Norman Paterson
School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University, has been
remarkably consistent in fulf‌illing its central mission: to provide an annual
survey of key events and themes in foreign policy.
The volume for 2008 is a departure for this series: co-edited by Robert
Bothwell, a preeminent historian of Canada’s international relations, and
Jean Daudelin, a political scientist at NPSIA, it is devoted to marking the
100th anniversary of the Department of External Affairs (since 1993, the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade).
To be sure, using the 2008 volume of Canada Among Nations to celebrate
an event that occurred in 2009 may end up causing a little confusion to
the incognescenti, who will not necessarily make the connection that each
volume of Canada Among Nations generally appears in the year after the one
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