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Review: Canada among Nations 2007

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Date01 March 2009
AuthorAdam Chapnick
Published date01 March 2009
DOI10.1177/002070200906400123
Subject MatterReview
| International Journal | Winter 2008-09 | 283 |
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CANADA AMONG NATIONS 2007
What Room for Manoeuvre?
Jean Daudelin and Daniel Schwanen, editors
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. xvi, 328pp,
$29.95 paper (ISBN 9780773533974)
Now in its 23rd year, the
Canada Among Nations
series has proven to be an
indispensable source for any serious student of Canadian foreign policy. The
latest volume, co-edited by Carleton University’s Jean Daudelin and the
Centre for International Governance Innovation’s Daniel Schwanen, upholds
the high standards of scholarship and practical utility that readers have come
to expect from some of Canada’s leading foreign p olicy analysts and
practitioners.
The approach of thi s year’s editors is ambitious. Thirteen separate
chapters (and 17 different writers) have been commissioned around one very
specific question: how much room does Canada have to manoeuvre in world
politics? The editors also aim to prove that, contrary to the opinions of
scholars who emphasize the constraints faced by national foreign policy
practitioners, the phenomenon of globalization has in fact increased the
opportunities for Canada to make its own way on the world stage. That they
are not entirely successful in either case is neither surprising nor crucial to
the overall utility of the volume:
What Room for Manoeuvre?
is valuable to

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