Identity Discourses and Canadian Foreign Policy in the War on Terror

This book examines how popular narratives of Canadian identity became implicated in Canada’s foreign policy in the Global War on Terror. McDonald argues that Canada’s decisions to join the 2001 Afghanistan War yet abstain from the 2003 Iraq War became politically possible because parliamentarians li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonald, Taylor Robertson
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Canada and International Affairs
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Identity and Foreign Policy as Discursive Practices: A Framework
  • Chapter 3: Won’t You Be My Neighbour? Discourses of Canada’s “Neighbourly Relations” and the War on Terror
  • Chapter 4: Crusading Saviour and Condemning Onlooker: Discourses of Canada the Protector and the War on Terror
  • Chapter 5: All for One, One for All: Discourses of Canadian Multilateralism and the War on Terror
  • Chapter 6: Reimagining Canada? Foreign Policy Discourses in the Age of Trump, Putin and Pandemic Politics
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion.