Graduate Seminar
CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN A CHANGING
WORLD
API 6335A
Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs
University
of Ottawa
Fall
2019
Office:
FSS 6032
Office
hours: By appointment
Email: rparis@uottawa.ca
This seminar examines both the concepts
and practice of Canadian foreign policy during a period of change and
uncertainty in international affairs. It examines the foundational ideas and
forces shaping Canada’s foreign policy as well as key international issues and
relationships – the US and North America, Asia, defence policy, development
assistance, global governance and the Arctic – with the goal of understanding
both the policy issues and the challenges and opportunities facing Canada. The
course readings are a blend of scholarly and policy writings that permit
students to apply core concepts to a selection of contemporary challenges
facing Canadian foreign policymakers.
Midterm exam |
20% |
Strategy paper (due Nov. 27) |
30% |
Participation / discussion of readings |
20% |
Final exam |
30% |
The midterm exam covers all the course material up to the date of
the exam.
Details of the written assignment will be
provided in class. Deadline: November 27, 5 p.m. (See the lateness policy,
below.)
The participation grade is based on your
involvement in seminar discussions throughout the semester, demonstrating that
you have completed and reflected on the readings.
The final exam covers the entire course. Failure to write the
final exam will result in a failing grade for the course. Further information
on the final exam will be provided in class.
Most of the readings are linked to this syllabus. To access subscriber-only
material, you may either: (1) connect to the library website from a University
of Ottawa-networked computer, or (2) follow these instructions for off-campus
access: http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/html/Page?node=get-access&lang=en.
Some readings will be provided to you via email.
Academic fraud – including plagiarism, submitting work that
was produced by someone else, or submitting the same work in more than one
course – may result in a failing grade for a particular assignment, a failing
grade for the course, and/or suspension for various lengths of time or
permanent expulsion
from the university. The onus is on each
student to know and comply with the university’s regulations on academic fraud.
There will be a penalty for late
submissions. Exceptions are made only for illness or other serious situations
deemed as such by the professor. University regulations require all absences
from exams and all late submissions due to illness to be supported by a medical
certificate. The Faculty reserves the right to accept or reject the reason put
forth if it is not medical. Reasons such as travel, work and errors made while
reading the exam schedule are not usually accepted. In the event of an illness
or related complications, only the counseling service and the campus clinic
(located at 100 Marie-Curie) may issue valid certificates to justify a delay or
absence. Each day of late submission will
result in a penalty of 5% (weekends included). This also applies to
assignments sent by email (time of receipt of the email indicates the time of
delivery). Please notify the professor as soon as possible if a religious
holiday or event forces your absence during an evaluation.
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students and to ensuring that every student can experience good mental health
in order to complete their work and participate fully in university life. For
more information, visit http://sass.uottawa.ca/en/personal/services/mental-health-wellness,
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John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy (Penguin, 2018),
chapter 1, “Crossing the Hellespont.”
The Economist, “The Jungle Closes In”
(February 9, 2019).
https://search.proquest.com/docview/2177597996
Randolf Mank,
“Does Canada Need a Foreign Policy Review?”, Canadian
Global Affairs Institute (January 2019).
https://www.cgai.ca/does_canada_need_a_foreign_policy_review
Kim Richard Nossal, Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Paquin, The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th
edition (McGill-Queens University Press, 2015), pp. 1-180.
The book is available for purchase
from the uOttawa bookstore. It is also available electronically through the
library: https://uottawa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/18dk8d/UOTTAWA_IIIb5742101
A. J. Miller, “The Functional
Principle in Canada's External Relations,” International
Journal 35:2 (Spring 1980), pp. 309-328.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40201865
Alan Gotlieb,
“Romanticism and Realism in Canada’s Foreign Policy,” Policy Options (February 2005), pp. 16-27.
http://irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/po/canada-in-the-world/gotlieb.pdf
Roland Paris, “Are Canadians Still
Liberal Internationalists? Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in the Harper
Era,” International Journal 69:3 (September
2014), pp. 274-307.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020702014540282
Heather A. Smith,
“Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others,” in Claire Turenne Sjolander, Heather Smith and Deborah Stienstra,
eds., Feminist Perspectives on Canadian
Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003), chapter 3, pp. 24-39.
https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/432097
Louis St. Laurent, “The
Foundations of Canadian Policy in World Affairs,” Duncan and John Gray Memorial
Lecture, University of Toronto, January 13, 1947.
http://www.russilwvong.com/future/stlaurent.html
Foreign Policy for Canadians (1970).
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/ForeignPolicyforCanadians_1970_Intro.pdf
Competitiveness and Security: Directions for Canada’s
International Affairs (1985).
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/Competitiveness_and_Security_Overview_1985.pdf
Canada in the World
(1995).
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/Canada_in_the_World_1995.pdf
Lloyd Axworthy, “Canada and Human Security: The Need for
Leadership,” International Journal 52:2 (1997),
pp. 183-96.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203196
A Role of Pride and Influence in the World (2005).
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/IPS_2005.pdf
Stephen Harper,
“Reviving Canadian Leadership in the World,” October 5, 2006.
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/Harper.html
Chrystia Freeland, “Address by
Minister Freeland on Canada’s Foreign Policy Priorities,” June 6, 2017.
Robert W. Cox, “A Canadian Dilemma:
The United States or the World,” International
Journal 60:3 (Summer 2005), pp. 667-684.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40204055
Charles Doran, “The United States
and Canada: In Search of Partnership,” in David Carment
and Christopher Sands, eds., Canada-US
Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019),
pp. 17-38.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05036-8_2
Laura Dawson, “Canada’s Global
Trade Options – Is There a Plan B?” in David Carment
and Christopher Sands, eds., Canada-US
Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019),
pp. 151-161.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05036-8_8
Conference Board of Canada, “From
NAFTA to CUSMA:
The Changes, the Additions, and What Remains” (June 2019).
Plus, one of these two
readings:
Todd Hataley
and Christian Leuprecht, “Canada-US Security Cooperation:
Interests, Institutions, Identity and Ideas,” in David Carment
and Christopher Sands, eds., Canada-US
Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019),
pp. 87-104.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05036-8_5
OR
Peter J. Stoett,
“Fairweather Friends? Canada–United States
Environmental Relations in the Days of Trump and the Era of Climate Change,” in
David Carment and Christopher Sands, eds., Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared
Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 105-123.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05036-8_6
Jeremy Paltiel, “Resolute
Ambivalence: Canada's Strategy toward China and the Asia-Pacific,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 22:1
(2016), pp. 40-53.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11926422.2015.1129634
Mary M. Young and Susan J. Henders, “’Other Diplomacies’ and the Making of Canada-Asia
Relations,” Canadian Foreign Policy
Journal 18:3 (2012), pp. 375-388.
https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2012.742022
Christopher J. Kukucha,
“Neither Adapting nor Innovating: The Limited Transformation of Canadian
Foreign Trade Policy since 1984,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 24:3 (2018),
pp. 301-315.
https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2018.1463100
Dewitt, David, Mary Young, Alex Brouse and Jinelle Piereder. “AWOL: Canada’s Defence
Policy and Presence in the Asia Pacific,” International
Journal 73:1 (March 2018), pp. 5-32.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702018768474
Roland Paris, “Alone in the World?
Making Sense of Canada’s Disputes with Saudi Arabia and China,” International Journal 74:1 (March 2019),
pp. 151–161.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702019834652
Roger Sarty, “The Interplay of Defense and Foreign
Policy,” in Robert Bothwell and Jean Daudelin, eds., Canada Among Nations 2008: 100 Years of
Canadian Foreign Policy (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's
University Press, 2009), pp. 111-141.
Christian Leuprecht
and Joel Sokolsky, “Defence
Policy ‘Walmart Style’: Canadian Lessons in ‘Not-So-Grand’ Grand Strategy,” Armed Forces and Society 41(3), 2015,
pp. 541-562.
Department of National Defence. Strong, Secure, Engaged: Canada’s Defence Policy (2017)
http://dgpaapp.forces.gc.ca/en/canada-defence-policy/docs/canada-defence-policy-report.pdf
Stéfanie von Hlatky and Justin Massie, “Ideology, Ballots, and
Alliances: Canadian Participation in Multinational Military Operations,” Contemporary Security Policy 40:1
(2019), pp. 101-115.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2018.1508265
Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel and Sebastian
Paulo, “Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of
Development Cooperation,” Journal of
International Development 27:2 (March 2015), pp. 155-169.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3045
J. Alexander Thier and Douglas Alexander, “How to Save
Foreign Aid in the Age of Populism,” Foreign Policy (August 13, 2019).
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/13/how-to-save-foreign-aid-in-the-age-of-populism-usaid-dfid/
Government of Canada, “Canada’s Feminist International
Assistance Policy,” Global Affairs Canada, 2017.
Rebecca Tiessen and
Emma Swan, “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy Promises: An Ambitious Agenda for
Gender Equality, Human Rights, Peace and Security,” in
Norman Hillmer and Philippe Lagassé, eds., Justin
Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2018).
https://link-springer-com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73860-4_10
Stephen Brown, All about that Base? Branding and the
Domestic Politics of Canadian Foreign Aid,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 24:2 (2018), pp.
145-164.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11926422.2018.1461666
Series: “How a Melting Arctic
Changes Everything,” Bloomberg (2017):
Part 1: Eric Roston
and Blacki Migliozzi, “The
Bare Arctic,” April 19, 2017.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/
Part 2: Eric Roston
and Blacki Migliozzi, “The Political
Arctic,” May 16, 2017.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/the-political-arctic/
Part 3: Eric Roston,
“The Economic Arctic,” December 29, 2017.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/the-economic-arctic/
Page Wilson, “Society, Steward or
Security Actor? Three Visions of the Arctic Council,” Cooperation and Conflict 51:1 (March 2016), pp. 55-74.
Keith Johnson and Reid Standish, “Putin and Xi Are
Dreaming of a Polar Silk Road,” Foreign
Policy (March 8, 2018).
Andreas Østhagen,
Gregory Levi Sharp and Paal Sigurd
Hilde, “At Opposite Poles: Canada’s and Norway’s Approaches to Security in the
Arctic,” Polar Journal 8:1 (2018),
pp. 163-181.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468625
Robert Kagan, “The World America
Made – and Trump Wants to Unmake,” Politico (Sept. 28, 2018).
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-world-america-made-and-trump-wants-to-unmake/
Henry Farrell and Abraham L.
Newman, “Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State
Coercion,” International Security
44:1 (Summer 2019), pp. 42-79.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00351
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “How to
Succeed in the Networked World: A Grand Strategy for the Digital Age,” Foreign Affairs (November-December
2016), pp. 76-81.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=118723076&site=ehost-live
Roland Paris, “Can Middle Powers
Save the Liberal World Order?” Chatham House (June 18, 2019).
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2019-06-18-MiddlePowers.pdf
Final exam
during exam period. Date and location TBA.