Swingback : getting along in the world with Harper and Trudeau / / Mike Blanchfield

• Autore: Blanchfield Mike
• Pubblicazione: Montreal & Kingston, Quebec ; ; London, [England] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 pages)
• Disciplina: 971.073
• Soggetto topico: Außenpolitik; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Foreign relations 21st century
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Photos -- Prologue -- Canada before Harper -- Stephen Harper -- Elusive Endgames in Afghanistan and Libya -- Stormy Relations with the United Nations -- Recession Warrior and Trade Crusader -- Saving Mothers,Children, and Dollars -- Cluster Bombs -- Israel and the Middle East -- Standing with Ukraine against the “Putin Regime” -- ISIL and the Politics of Terror -- Trudeau’s First Hundred Days in the World -- Trudeau and Obama -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From 2006 to 2015, Stephen Harper charted a new course for Canada’s foreign policy, turning away from multilateralism and refusing to “go along to get along” on the world stage. Justin Trudeau, in only his first few months in power, used his personal celebrity to rebrand Canada as a more sympathetic country in an attempt to swing the pendulum back to something more familiar. However, navigating Canada’s path forward in the world will take more than “sunny ways.” Chronicling Canada’s journey under these two prime ministers of the early twenty-first century, Swingback examines the ways the country’s relationships with the United Nations, Israel, Iran, and Russia changed under Harper’s leadership, and how this has affected the situation the Liberals have inherited. From the war zones of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya to meetings with world leaders, Mike Blanchfield traces Canada’s birth as a global actor since the end of the Second World War and delves into the trenches of domestic political battles and the challenges of the present day, drawing from extensive on-the-ground research as a practising journalist. An uncompromising analysis of Harper’s foreign policy legacy and the emerging priorities of the Liberal government, Swingback repositions Canada in this turbulent world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Swingback
• ISBN: 0-7735-4898-X; 0-7735-4897-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160344803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II