Review: Uneasy Neighbo(U)RS
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200806300225 |
| Date | 01 June 2008 |
| Published date | 01 June 2008 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
| Reviews |
| 510 | International Journal | Spring 2008 |
glacial period, and while we can count upon the glaciers returning, we may
not be able to rely on their doing so “in time to moderate or reverse the rise
of temperatures caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases”
(165). Nor can signing onto Kyoto on its own be expected to do the trick, not
if Canada’s performance under the former Liberal government serves as any
guide for as Legault demonstrates, by 2004 (i.e., a year when the environ-
mentally friendly Stéphane Dion was looking after these matters), Canada’s
greenhouse gas emissions were registering a level of increase over those of
1990 (26.6 percent) that vastly exceeded the comparable level of increase
(15.8 percent) of the nonobservant US during that same 14-year span (182).
This book was originally published in French and it is a tribute to the
skills of the two translators, Barbara Chunn and Betsy McFarlane, that the
text flows so fluently in English. There are, of course, the usual glitches that
show up in works of translation (e.g., Trinity and Tobago instead of Trinidad
and Tobago [212]), and at one point uranium is referred to as a fossil fuel
(89); but by and large, this highly technical work reads exceedingly well, and
can be recommended to any political scientist or IR specialist wishing to
learn about the technical side of contemporary energy questions.
David G. Haglund/Queen’s University
UNEASY NEIGHBO(U)RS
Canada, the USA and the Dynamics of State, Industry and Culture
David T. Jones and David Kilgour
Mississauga: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2007. 352pp. $33.99 cloth (ISBN
978-0470153062)
If Canada and the United States are best friends, “like it or not,” as the Socred
leader Robert Thompson once famously put it 40 or so years ago, then ac-
cording to David T. Jones and David Kilgour our two countries today “are cer-
tainly in a ‘not’ portion of the cycle as the relationship moves further into the
21st century” (2). Jones is a former US diplomat who served in Ottawa and
who in recent years, especially through a spate of thoughtful journal articles,
has established himself as a well-known Canada hand. Kilgour is a former
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