Canadians and Foreign Policy The Record of an Independent Investigation 1st Edition by Frederick Alexander 9781442632974 1442632976

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• ISBN 10: 1442632976
• ISBN 13: 9781442632974
• Author: Frederick Alexander 

Professor Fred Alexander, a distinguished historian and the first Australian to be awarded a Senior Research Fellowship of the Canada Council, makes in this book a frank and friendly attempt to examine the views on various aspects of Canada’s external relations expressed to him by an occupational and regional cross-section of Canadians (many of whom are named in the text) during the course of his recent coast-to-coast investigation.

Canadian-American relations loom large in the resultant analysis, whether the subject matter is economic or strategic, cultural or political. Other important questions discussed cover the extent to which Canadian nationalism is restricted by surviving provincial regionalism; the significance of spiritual and idealist influences; current internal political trends; and the increasing significance of Asia and the Pacific in the overall attitude of Canadians to the Commonwealth and the world at large.

This book, which is being published simultaneously in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, has the general quality of highlighting through the eyes of an independent observer the important problems of Canadian attitudes to foreign policy and that special quality which is derived from the author’s integrity and good-humoured detachment no less than the shrewdness and rare penetration of some of his judgments.

Table contents:

I Introduction
1 Objectives and Methods
2 A Central Theme
3 Personalities and Acknowledgments
II Economic Realities
1 An Industrial Revolution
2 Psychological Consequences
3 Canadian Oil
4 Surplus Grain
5 International Unions
III Strategic Interests
1 Prewar Strategic Relations
2 Early Postwar Changes
3 Ogdensburg to NORAD
4 Resultant Dissatisfactions
5 Realistic Requirements
6 Persistent Problems
IV Political Trends
1 Political Systems and International Diplomacy
2 C.C.F.-C.L.C. New Party Prospects
3 A Liberal Revival?
4 Question: Are Canadian Party Politics More Basically British or North American?
V Cultural Considerations
1 The Pervasiveness of American “Cultural” Penetration
2 The Forces of Resistance
3 The Role of the C.B.C.
4 The Canada Council
VI Idealist and Spiritual Influences
1 Churchmen and Politics
2 Idealism and the Individual
3 Religion and Canadian-American Relations
4 Non Roman Catholics and Canadian Nationalism
VII Nationalism and Regionalism
1 The Search for a Positive Nationalism
2 Industrialisation and the French Canadians
3 Economic Realities and the Maintenance of a Distinctive Canadian Identity
VIII South of the Border
1 Americans’ Ignorance of Canada
2 United States Grievances and Criticisms
3 “Taking Canadians for Granted”
IX The World at Large
1 China and the Pacific
2 A Modus Vivendi with Moscow?
3 India, the West Indies and Immigration
4 Canada and the Commonwealth

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