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The 10 Most Important Books on Canadian Foreign Policy

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Date01 June 2009
AuthorJohn Kirton
DOI10.1177/002070200906400214
Published date01 June 2009
Subject MatterBlasts from the Past
John Kirton has been teaching and researching Canadian foreign policy at the
University of Toronto for 31 years and is the author of
Canadian Foreign Policy in a
Changing World
(Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2007).
1 Goldwin Smith,
Canada and the Canadian Question
(Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1891).
In many ways the scholarly study of Canadian foreign policy has become a
rich, robust, and rapidly growing field. It is now well over a century old, if one
dates its inauguration from the publication of Goldwin Smith’s
Canada and
the Canadian Question
in 1891, a book that u nderstood that Canada’s
relationship with the United States was properly part of, or even at the centre
of, the field.1From 1945, when many of today’s scholars start their scrutiny,
to 1995, the detailed bibliographies compiled under the auspices of the
Canadian Institute of International Affairs recorded work s of all kinds as
relevant to the subject. Since then, the explosion of material has been too
vast for this careful bibliographic compilation to be published in print,
especially as the internet has arrived to help others take on the task in
electronic form. Since 1970, courses on Canadian foreign policy have
become staples of universities’ undergraduate curricula across Canada,
BLASTS FROM THE PAST
John Kirton
The 10 most important
books on Canadian
foreign policy
| International Journal | Spring 09 | 553 |

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