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N = 1: initial impressions of systemism in Canadian foreign policy

 

ABSTRACT

Systemism as a method for the study of Canadian foreign defence policy offers an opportunity for fruitful collaboration across theoretical and methodological subdivisions in the field. In particular, the approach could provide an excellent method through which to showcase feminist causal logic for a more mainstream audience, which tends to view feminist scholarship as being far removed from its concerns and policy-relevant Canadian foreign policy. This review offers a somewhat idiosyncratic assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of systemism as presented in this special issue of CFPJ. I discuss how I see myself using sytemism as a writing and teaching tool in the future.

RÉSUMÉ

En tant que méthode d'étude de la politique étrangère et de défense du Canada, le systémisme offre l'opportunité d'une collaboration fructueuse entre les subdivisions théoriques et méthodologiques du domaine. En particulier, cette approche pourrait constituer une excellente méthode pour présenter la logique causale féministe à un public plus large, qui a tendance à considérer la recherche féministe comme étant très éloignée de ses préoccupations et de la politique étrangère canadienne pertinente. Cette revue propose une évaluation quelque peu idiosyncratique des forces et des faiblesses du systémisme tel que présenté dans ce numéro spécial du CFPJ. J'aborde la manière dont je me vois utiliser le systémisme comme outil d'écriture et d'enseignement à l'avenir.

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Notes

1 I am of course using “real issues” ironically, because I believe that issues of sex and gender in defence and foreign policy are both materially real and important.

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Andrea Lane

Andrea Lane is a strategic analyst with DRDC-CORA, and a PhD candidate in political science at Dalhousie University.

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