Master’s Seminar
CANADIAN FOREIGN
POLICY
IN A CHANGING WORLD
API 6399D
Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs
University
of Ottawa
Winter
2018
Office:
FSS 6032
Office
hours: By appointment
Email: rparis@uottawa.ca
Course Description
This capstone 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.
Requirements
|
Response Papers (3) |
30% |
|
Midterm Exam |
15% |
|
Participation |
20% |
|
Final Exam |
35% |
Response Papers
Each
student will write three response papers during the semester. Length:
five double-spaced pages (normal fonts and margins). Deadline: 12 noon the
day before the relevant class meeting. Late papers will be subject to
penalties (see lateness policy below). Further instructions will be provided in
class.
Midterm Exam
The midterm exam will cover all the course material up to the date
of the exam.
Participation
The participation grade in this course is significant. It will be
based not only on your involvement in seminar discussions, but also on evidence
that you have completed and understood the weekly readings. Note: You may be
called on to discuss one or more of the readings in class. Be prepared.
Final Exam
The final exam will cover 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.
Readings
Most of the other 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.
Cheating and
Plagiarism
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.
Lateness
Policy
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.
Mental Health
and Wellness
The University of Ottawa is committed to the wellbeing of its
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,
Sexual
Violence
The
University of Ottawa does not tolerate any form of sexual violence. Sexual
violence refers to any act of a sexual nature committed without consent, such
as rape, sexual harassment or online harassment. The University, as well as
student and employee associations, offers a full range of resources and
services allowing members of our community to receive information and
confidential assistance and providing for a procedure to report an incident or
make a complaint. For more information, visit www.uOttawa.ca/sexual-violence-support-and-prevention.
Jan. 10 Introduction: Canadian Foreign Policy
in a Changing World
Roland Paris and Taylor Owen,
“Imagining a More Ambitious Canada,” in Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, eds., The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to
Rethink Its International Policies (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2015),
pp. 175-187.
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~rparis/Paris_Owen_2016.pdf
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “The Return
of Anarchy?” Columbia Journal of
International Affairs, March 15, 2017.
https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/return-anarchy
Roland Paris, “Why Canada Needs to
Pursue a Global Agenda, Despite Trump,” OpenCanada /
Globe and Mail, June 6, 2017.
https://www.opencanada.org/features/why-canada-needs-pursue-global-agenda-despite-trump/
PART I – FOUNDATIONS
Jan. 17 ‘Dominant
Ideas’ in Canadian Foreign Policy
Kim Richard Nossal, Stéphane
Roussel and Stéphane Paquin, The Politics
of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th edition (McGill-Queens
University Press, 2015), pp. 135-180.
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
Prosper Bernard Jr., “Canada and
Human Security: From the Axworthy Doctrine to Middle
Power Internationalism,” American Review
of Canadian Studies 36:2 (2006), pp. 233-261.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02722010609481699
John Ibbitson, “The Big Break: The
Conservative Transformation of Canada’s Foreign Policy,” Centre for
International Governance Innovation, CIGI Paper no. 29 (April 2014).
https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/cigi_paper_29.pdf
Chrystia Freeland, “Address by
Minister Freeland on Canada’s Foreign Policy Priorities,” June 6, 2017.
Jan. 24 Idealism, Realism, and Public Opinion
Denis Stairs, “Myths, Morals, and
Reality in Canadian Foreign Policy,” International
Journal 58:2 (Spring 2003), pp. 239-256.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40203840
William C. Wohlforth,
Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard
Leira and Iver B. Neumann,
“Moral Authority and Status in International Relations: Good states and the
Social Dimension of Status Seeking,” Review
of International Studies (published online in advance of print, 2017).
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210517000560
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
Mathieu Landriault,
“Does Voting End at the Water’s Edge? Canadian Public Opinion and Voter
Intentions, 2006–2015,” Canadian Foreign
Policy Journal 22:3 (2016), pp. 249-261.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11926422.2016.1166143
Darrell J. Bricker and Sean
Simpson, “Canadian Public Opinion and Foreign Policy,” Policy Magazine (June-August 2016), pp. 3-5.
http://www.policymagazine.ca/pdf/20/PolicyMagazineJulyAugust-2016-Bricker.pdf
PART II –
CHALLENGES
Jan. 31 Trumped: Canada-US Relations and the
Future of NAFTA
Guest: Mr.
John Hannaford, Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister,
Privy Council Office
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
Brian Bow, “Legitimacy,
Politicization and Regional Integration in North America,” in A. Hurrelmann and S. Schneider, eds., The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas.
Transformations of the State (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 33-56.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137457004_3
Patrick Leblond and Judit Fabian, “Modernizing NAFTA: A New Deal for the North
American Economy in the Twenty-first Century,” Centre for International
Governance Innovation, CIGI Paper no. 123, March 30, 2017.
Overview of issues in NAFTA
negotiations: “NAFTA, Trump and Canada: A Guide to the Trade File and What It
Could Mean for You,” Globe and Mail
(regularly updated).
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trump-nafta-canada-mexico-trudeau/article33715250/
Douglas Porter, “The Day After NAFTA: Economic Impact Analysis,” BMO Capital Markets
Economics, November 2017.
John Stewart, “Long-Term Light in
Canada’s Dark Hour,” Policy Options,
September 29, 2017.
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2017/long-term-light-in-naftas-dark-hour
Feb. 7 Canada’s Pivot towards Asia?
Guest: Mr. Timothy
Sargent, Deputy Minister of International Trade
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
John Manley and Brian Kingston,
“Canada’s Global Firms and the Future of Trade Policy,” in Stephen Tapp, Ari van Assche and Robert
Wolfe, eds., Redesigning Canadian Trade
Policies for New Global Realities (Institute for Research on Public Policy,
2016).
http://irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AOTS6-manley-kingston.pdf
Hugh Stephens, “Why Canada Dug In
Its Heels Over the TPP11 in Vietnam,” OpenCanada,
November 15, 2017.
https://www.opencanada.org/features/why-canada-dug-its-heels-over-tpp11-vietnam/
Derek Burney and Fen Osler
Hampson, “Why Canada must pursue a trade relationship with China,” Globe and Mail, November 30, 2017.
Joe Castaldo,
“The Hidden Risks of Opening Up Trade with China,” Macleans, September 18, 2017.
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/the-hidden-risks-of-opening-up-trade-with-china
Tsuyoshi Kawasaki, “Where Does
Canada Fit into US-China Strategic Competition across the Pacific?” International
Journal 71:2 (June 2016),
pp. 214-30.
http://ijx.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/03/31/0020702016643344.abstract
Feb. 14 Midterm Exam
Feb. 21 Break Week
Feb. 28 Development Assistance: To What End?
With What Means?
Guest: Ms.
Margaret Biggs, Chair of the Board, International Development Research
Centre, and former President of the Canadian International Development Agency
Rohinton P. Medhora, “Follow the Smart Money: Canada’s Foreign Aid
Footprint in a Changing World,” Policy: Canadian Politics and Public
Policy (July-August 2016), pp. 13-15.
http://www.policymagazine.ca/pdf/20/PolicyMagazineJulyAugust-2016-Medhora.pdf
Adam Chapnick, “Refashioning
Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada,” in Stephen Brown,
Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, eds., Rethinking Canadian Aid (Ottawa:
University of Ottawa Press, 2016), pp. 36-53.
https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/chapter/1823738
Margaret Biggs, John
McArthur, et al., “Towards 2030: Building Canada’s Engagement with Global
Sustainable Development,” Centre for International Policy Studies, University
of Ottawa (November 2015).
http://www.cips-cepi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CIPS-development-final-web-EN.pdf
Government of Canada, “Canada’s Feminist International Assistance
Policy,” Global Affairs Canada (2017).
Stephen Brown and Liam Swiss, “Canada’s Feminist International
Assistance Policy: Game Changer or Fig Leaf?” in Katherine A.H. Graham and
Allan M. Maslove, eds. How Ottawa Spends, 2017-2018 (Ottawa:
Carleton University, 2017), pp. 117-131.
Robert Greenhill, On Paying Its Global Share, Canada’s Not Back – It’s
Far Back,” OpenCanada, January 11, 2017.
https://www.opencanada.org/features/paying-its-global-share-canadas-not-backits-far-back
March 7 Spotlight on Women, Peace and Security
Guest: Prof. Stéfanie von Hlatky, Associate Professor of Political
Studies and Director of the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence
Policy, Queen’s University
Stéfanie
von Hlatky, “The Gender Turn in Canadian Military Interventions,” in Fen Osler Hampson
and Stephen Saideman, eds., Elusive
Pursuits: Lessons From Canada’s Military Interventions
Abroad (Waterloo: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015),
pp. 161-177.
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., Canada Among
Nations (Palgrave, forthcoming).
Policy statements (skim):
“Canada's National Action Plan 2017-2022
– For the Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace
and Security” (2017)
http://international.gc.ca/world-monde/assets/pdfs/cnap-eng.pdf
“Canada Bolsters Peacekeeping and
Civilian Protection Measures” (2017)
https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/11/15/canada-bolsters-peacekeeping-and-civilian-protection-measures
“The Elsie Initiative on Women in
Peace Operations” (2017)
https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/11/15/elsie-initiative-women-peace-operations
Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman, “Canada Is Forging a New
Peacekeeping Path,” CBC Opinion, November 21, 2017.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/canada-peacekeeping-1.4412757
Bipasha Baruah, “Short-Sighted Commitments on Women in
Peacekeeping,” Policy Options,
November 23, 2017.
Stéfanie
von Hlatky, “Gender and Peacekeeping,” Policy
Options, November 8, 2017.
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2017/gender-and-peacekeeping/
March 14 Making Sense of Canadian Defence Policy
Guest: Gen.
Jonathan Vance, Chief of Defence Staff, Canadian Forces
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.
Laura Pelletier and Justin Massie, “Role Conflict: Canada’s Withdrawal from Combat
Operations against ISIL,” International
Journal 72:3 (September 2017), pp. 298-317.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702017723357
Alexander Lanoszka, “From Ottawa to Riga:
Three Tensions in Canadian Defence Policy,” International
Journal 72:4 (December 2017), pp. 520-537.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702017740157
Government of Canada, “Strong,
Secure, Engaged: Canada’s Defence Policy,” Department of National Defence,
2017.
http://dgpaapp.forces.gc.ca/en/canada-defence-policy/docs/canada-defence-policy-report.pdf
March 21 Spotlight on the Arctic: Cooperation or
Contention?
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/
Oran R. Young, “The Arctic Council
at Twenty: How to Remain Effective in a Rapidly Changing Environment,” UC Irvine Law Review 6:1 (January 2016),
pp. 99-120.
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ucirvlre6&g_sent=1&collection=journals&id=103
Joel Plouffe, “U.S. Arctic Foreign
Policy in the Era of President Trump: A Preliminary Assessment,” Canadian
Global Affairs Institute (November 2017).
http://www.cgai.ca/us_arctic_foreign_policy_in_the_era_of_president_trump_a_preliminary_assessment
Frédéric Lasserre,
Linyan Huang and Olga V. Alexeeva,
“China's Strategy in the Arctic: Threatening or Opportunistic?” Polar Record 53:1 (January 2017), pp.
31-42.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247415000765
Aurel
Braun and Stephen Blank, “Looking North with Caution: Canada, the Arctic and
Russia,” Macdonald-Laurier Institute (February 2017).
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/MLICommentaryBraunBlank_F.pdf
Kari Roberts, “Why Russia Will
Play by the Rules in the Arctic,” Canadian
Foreign Policy Journal 21:2 (2015), pp. 112-128.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11926422.2014.939204
March 28 Multilateralism: Past, Present, and Future
Guest: Mr. Ian Shugart, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tom Keating, “Multilateralism: Past Imperfect, Future Conditional,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 16:2
(2010), pp. 9-25.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11926422.2010.9687305
Andrea Charron, “The United Nations and Trudeau’s Quest for a UN
Security Council Seat,” in Norman Hillmer and Philippe Lagassé, eds., Canada Among Nations (Palgrave,
forthcoming).
Andrew F. Cooper and Emel Parlar Dal, “Positioning the
Third Wave of Middle Power Diplomacy: Institutional Elevation, Practice
Limitations,” International Journal
71:4 (December 2016), pp. 516-528.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020702016686385
Yves Tiberghien, “Dealing with
Rapid Change and Systemic Risk: A Smart Canadian Approach to Global
Institutions and Partnerships,” in Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, eds., The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to
Rethink Its International Policies (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2015),
pp. 162-174.
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, “The Promise and
Perils of Trudeau’s Foreign Policy,” in Norman Hillmer and Philippe Lagassé,
eds., Canada Among
Nations (Palgrave, forthcoming).
April 4 Final Exam
At the usual meeting time.