NOTES
- Michael K. Hawes, Principal Power, Middle Power or Satellite: Competing Perspectives in the Study of Canadian Foreign Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, for the York Research Programme in Strategic Studies, 1984)
- The notion of a golden age is one which elicits considerable debate amongst students of Canadian Foreign Policy. Many argue that the so-called golden age is an idealized account of times gone by. Others argue that Canada has, in essence, lost its way. See, in particular: Andrew Cohen, While Canada Slept: How We Lost our Place in the World (Toronto: Maclelland and Stewart, 2003)
- A strong and enduring proponent of this view is former Fulbright scholar Stephen Clarkson. See, inter alia, Stephen Clarkson, Uncle Sam and US: Globalism, Neoconservativism, and the Canadian State (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)
- This view was originally and most forcefully expressed by David B. Dewitt and John J. Kirton, Canada as a Principal Power (Toronto: John Wiley, 1983). See also Andrew Cooper, Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits and New Direction (Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice Hall, 1997); and Kim Richard Nossal, The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 3rd ed., (Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1997)
- For all of its critics, there is something to be said for the basic argument that world politics has entered a new phase characterized by a new pattern of conflict and defined by differences over culture and civilization. See Samuel L. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). Intellectuals of all stripes have taken strong positions on Huntington's controversial book, with more than a few identifying it as “the worst book on political theory ever written.” For a more balanced, though still critical, account see J. John lkenberry et al., “The West: Precious, not Unique: Civilizations Make for a Poor Paradigm Just Like the Rest,” Foreign Affairs 76, no. 2 (March/April 1997)
- The most publicized event on the anti-globalization agenda in recent years was the riot at the WTO summit in Seattle in the fall of 1999. Dubbed by Time magazine as “the Battle in Seattle.” the conflict between anti-capitalist demonstrators and national governments that support the WTO is symptomatic of the considerable challenge that international organizations face with respect to their authority and their credibility
- Michael Kergin, “Canada—U.S. Relations: A Midterm Report (Lessons my Poli Sci Prof Never Taught Me),” The Empire Club, Toronto, 26 September 2002