Master’s Seminar
CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN A CHANGING
WORLD
API 6335A
Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs
University
of Ottawa
Winter
2021
Office:
FSS 6032
Office
hours: By appointment
Email: rparis@uottawa.ca
Course Description
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.
Requirements
|
Response papers (3 x 15%) |
45% |
|
Midterm exam |
15% |
|
Final exam |
30% |
|
Participation |
10% |
Response papers
You will write three response papers during the semester. Deadline: 12 noon the day before the relevant class meeting. Late papers will be subject to penalties (see lateness policy below). Detailed instructions will be provided in class.
Midterm exam
The midterm exam will cover all the course material up
to the date of the exam. It will take place during the regular class period.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Final exam
The final exam will cover the entire course. It will be a take
home exam, during the exam period. Duration: 24 hours. You must write the final
exam to pass the course.
Participation
The participation grade will be based not only on your
involvement in seminar discussions, but also on evidence that you have completed
and understood the weekly readings. If circumstances make it difficult for you
to participate in online discussions, please speak to the professor.
Readings
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.
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. 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.
PART
I – FOUNDATIONS
Jan.
15 Introduction to the Course
John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy (Penguin, 2018),
chapter 1, “Crossing the Hellespont.”
Jan.
22 The Context of 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. 1-180.
https://uottawa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/18dk8d/UOTTAWA_IIIb5742101
Jan.
29 Policy Paradigms
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
Feb.
5 Foreign Policy Strategies
since World War II: Primary Sources
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.
PART
II – THE CHANGING CONTEXT
Feb.
12 Relations with the United
States
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
Greg Anderson, “Trump’s ‘American
System’ and Canada,” American Review of
Canadian Studies 50:1 (2020), pp. 32-47.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2020.1748915
Geoffrey Hale, “Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure: The Politics of Intermesticity,” in David Carment
and Chris Sands, eds., Canada-US
Relations: Sovereignty
or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2019), pp. 163-192.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05036-8_9
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
Feb.
19 University Break Week
Feb.
26 Midterm Exam
March
5 Canada’s “Asia Problem”
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
Jeffrey Reeves, “Canada and the
Free and Open Indo-Pacific: A Strategic Assessment,” Asia Policy 27:4 (2020), pp. 51-64.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772669
Brian L. Job, “Between a Rock and
a Hard Place: The Dilemmas of Middle Powers,” Issues and Studies 56:2 (June 2020).
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ahl&AN=144665059&site=ehost-live
Roland Paris, "Canadian Views
on China: From Ambivalence to Distrust," Chatham House (July 2020).
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/canadian-views-china
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
March
12 Defence
Policy
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.
https://doi-org.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/10.1177/0095327X14536562
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
Lindsay Rodman, “You’ve Got It All Backwards: Canada’s National Defence Strategy,” in
Thomas Juneau, Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic,
eds., Canadian Defence
Policy in Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26403-1_16
Stephanie Carvin, “Canadian Defence and New
Technologies,” in Thomas Juneau, Philippe Lagassé and
Srdjan Vucetic, eds., Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2019).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26403-1_22
George MacDonald, “Defence Policy Perspectives:
Special Interests and Lobbying,” in Thomas Juneau, Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic, eds., Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and
Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26403-1_14
March
19 Development Assistance
Adam Chapnick, “The Origins of Canada’s Feminist
Foreign Policy,” International Journal
74:2 (June 2019), pp. 191-205.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702019850827
Government of Canada, “Canada’s Feminist International
Assistance Policy,” Global Affairs Canada, 2017.
Heather Smith and Tari Ajadi, “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy and Human Security
Compared,” International Journal 75:3
(Sept. 2020), pp. 367-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702020954547
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
Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté and Raphael Lencucha, “Health
in Canadian Foreign Policy: The Role of Norms and Security Interests,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 25:3
(2019), pp. 325-341.
https://doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2019.1642216
March
26 The Arctic
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/
Adam Lajeunesse
and Whitney Lackenbauer P. (2020) Defence
Policy in the Canadian Arctic: From Jean Chrétien to Justin Trudeau, in Thomas
Juneau, Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic, eds., Canadian Defence
Policy in Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26403-1_21
Report of the Standing Committee
on Foreign Affairs and International Development Nation-Building at Home,
“Vigilance Beyond: Preparing for the Coming Decades in the Arctic,” House of
Commons, Canada (April 2019).
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/FAAE/Reports/RP10411277/faaerp24/faaerp24-e.pdf
(pdf)
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
April
2 Holiday (No Meeting)
April
9 The International Order
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
Amitav
Acharya, “After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order,” Ethics
and International Affairs 31:3 (2017), pp. 271-285.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S089267941700020X
April
13 New Directions?
Robert Greenhill and Jennifer
Welsh, “Reframing Canada’s Global Engagement: Diagnostic of Key Trends and
Sources of Influence” Global Canada (August 2020).
https://global-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/A-Diagnostic-of-Key-Trends-August-2020.pdf
Roland Paris, “Navigating New
World Disorder: Canada’s Post-Pandemic Foreign Policy,” Public Policy Forum
(July 2020).
https://ppforum.ca/publications/navigating-the-new-world-disorder/ (English)
https://ppforum.ca/fr/publications/naviguer-dans-le-nouveau-desordre-mondial/ (Français)
[Video] Roland Paris, “Building
Canada's Post-Pandemic Foreign Policy,” interview with OpenCanada (October
2020).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP8EtOuwMU
Richard Haas, “Repairing the
World: The Imperative—and Limits—of a Post-Trump Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (Nov. 9, 2020).
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/topics/us-foreign-policy
Paul Wells, “A Biden-Trudeau
Partnership Will Require Real Work,” Macleans
(Dec. 9, 2020).
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/a-biden-trudeau-partnership-will-require-real-work/
Marie-Danielle Smith, “Canada's Foreign Policy Agenda in 2021,” Macleans (Dec. 16, 2020).
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/canadas-foreign-policy-agenda-in-2021/