Review: Canada: State Power and Multinational Oil Corporations
| Date | 01 March 2003 |
| Author | Daizo Sakurada |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800115 |
| Published date | 01 March 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
ahistorical
imaginations
of
some
policy
mandarins
perhaps,
but,
after
forty
years
of
Canadian procurement,
training,
and deployment
to
prepare
for
World
War
III
against
the
Warsaw
pact,
one
might
respect-
fully
beg
to
differ.
In
the
end,
The
Revolution
in Military
Affairs
is
more
survey
than
scholarly
analysis,
but
it
is
very
good
indeed in
the
first
capacity
if
only
thoroughly
average
in
the
second.
This
clear,
reasoned,
if
sometimes
tentative,
overview
deserves
a
wide,
and
critical,
readership.
Dean
E
Oliver/Canadian
War Museum
STATE
POWER
AND
MULTINATIONAL
OIL CORPORATIONS
The
political
economy
of
market
intervention
in
Canada
and
Japan
Takamichi
Mito
Fukuoka:
Kyushu University
Press,
2001,
2
93pp,
Yen
8,000,
ISBN
4-
87378-659-2
Ever
since
1973,
Japan
has
been
Canada's
second
largest
trading
partner
after
the
United
States.
Despite
Japan's
importance
for
Canada,
not
much
has
been
written
in
either
English
or
Japanese
about
Canada-Japan
rela-
tions,
especially
in
the
form
of
rigorous comparative studies.
The
most
obvious
exception
is
Michael
Fry,
et
al
The
North
Pacific
Triangle:
The
United
States,
Japan,
and
Canada
at
Century'
End
(University
of
Toronto
Press
1998),
which
deals extensively
with
Canada-United
States
and
Japan-United
States
dyads
and
thereby
describes
various
aspects
of
the
Canada-United
States-Japan
triangular relationship.
To
help
fill
this
academic
void,
Mito's comprehensive
treatment
of
Canadian and
Japanese
government-business
relations
is
most
wel-
come.
Mito
reviews
the
major
approaches
(the
liberal-pluralist,
Marxist,
power
elite,
and
statist)
to
the
analysis
of
state
power and
autonomy
in
oil
sectors
of
Canada
and
Japan
between
1961
and
1980.
Not
being
fully satisfied
with
any
of
the
four,
he
devises
an
alternative
research
strategy
for
a
statist
analysis
and
comes
up
with
nine
ideal
types
of
state
categorized by state-society 'influence'
and
'autonomy,'
ý
la
Stephen
Krasner's
Defending
the
National
Interest.
Two
independent
variables
(political
culture
and
policy
environment)
and
three
inter-
vening
variables
(ideology,
the
nature
of
policy
issues,
and
political
dynamics)
help
to
explain
state
influence
and
state
autonomy
in
Canadian and
Japanese
oil
policies
in
the
period
under
examination.
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Winter2002-2003
219
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