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Your source for the latest analysis of foreign policy issues from a Canadian perspective. Canadian Foreign Policy provides a forum where policy-makers, scholars, journalists and researchers will encounter a full range of opinion and analysis on the issues affecting Canada’s foreign policy.

Current Issue

Volume 15, Number 2

ARTICLES

  • Virtuality, Diplomacy, and the Foreign Ministry: Does Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Need a “V Tower”

    Daryl Copeland

  • A Larger “Footprint” in Ottawa: General Hillier and Canada’s Shifting Civil-Military Relationship, 2005-2008

    Philippe Lagassé and Joel J. Sokolsky

  • Out of Africa? The Harper Government’s New “Tilt” in the Developing World

    David Black

  • Unwilling Internationalism or Strategic Internationalism? Canadian Climate Policy under the Conservative Government

    Heather A. Smith

  • A Funny Thing Happened On the Road to Kandahar: The Competing Faces of Canadian Internationalism?

    Claire Turenne Sjolander

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POLICY COMMENTS / COMMENTARIES

  • Canadian Foreign and Security Policy: Reaching a Balance between Autonomy and North American Harmony in the Twenty-First Century

    Jonathan Paquin

  • Canada and China: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: A Rejoinder to Charles Burton

    Jeremy Paltiel

  • Response to Jeremy Paltiel's Article, “Canada and China: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: A Rejoinder to Charles Burton”

    Charles Burton

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News

The Biennial New Scholars Conference

Theme: CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY

The Canadian Foreign Policy journal, with support from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, NPSIA’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and the Canadian International Council, will hold its regular, biennial conference for new scholars on Canada's international policies on Nov. 12-13, 2009.

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Canadian Foreign Policy
Best Paper Prize 2009

The Canadian Foreign Policy Maureen Appel Molot Best Paper Prize was awarded for the first time in February 2009 to Justin Massie, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and Associate Researcher at the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy (UQAM) and Stéphane Roussel, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Foreign and Canadian Defence Policy at l’Université du Québec à Montréal for their article « Au service de l’unité: Le rôle des mythes en politique étrangère canadienne». This article, which was first presented as a paper on a panel Myths in Canadian Foreign Policy : An Interparadigmatic Debate at the 2007 International Studies Association appeared in CFP Volume 14:2, Spring 2008.

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Reawakening Canada's China Policy

A Policy Comment by Bruce Gilley, a response from Paul Evans from Issue 14:2.   Access here without a subscription.

The Prevention of Future Conflict in Iraq: Policy Research at DFAIT - A Case Study

A Policy Comment by David M. Malone and Ben Rowswell from Issue 14:1. Access here without a subscription.