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4. What’s Not to Like? Justin Trudeau, the Global Disorder, and Liberal Illusions

Authors : Jerome Klassen, Yves Engler

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Abstract

This chapter analyses Canadian foreign policy in light of current dynamics in the global political economy. It argues that the neoliberal period of economic and political governance under US hegemony has reached an impasse; that new tendencies in the world economy and state system are upending US primacy and engendering new patterns of multi-polarity and geopolitical conflict; that Canadian foreign policy during the neoliberal period has supported the primacy strategy of Washington and the economic interests of Canadian capital; and that, despite new patterns of global disorder, the same logic of Canadian foreign policy will persist under Justin Trudeau. For case studies, the chapter focuses on two flashpoint regions in which Canadian foreign policy is currently engaged: the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

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TheStar.com and Canadian Press (2015).
 
2
For a more in-depth analysis, see Government of Canada (2017a).
 
3
Government of Canada (2017b).
 
4
Haldeman (2016).
 
5
Lawson (2015).
 
6
Obama (2015).
 
7
Doyle (1986).
 
8
Mearsheimer (2001), Waltz (1979).
 
9
Ibid. (1994).
 
10
Marx (1937).
 
11
Ibid. (1976).
 
12
Shaikh (2016). Also, for a more introductory explanation of Marxist crisis theory, see Roberts (2016).
 
13
Callinicos (2009).
 
14
For more on these concepts, see various publications by Alexander Anievas especially, Anievas (2014).
 
15
Hearden (2002), Ikenberry (2006), Klassen (2014).
 
16
Leffler (1992).
 
17
Gowan (2003), Schlesinger (2004).
 
18
Early Cold War concerns later encouraged more flexibility in US demands towards dismantling the British Empire’s preferential trading system (Zeiler 1997).
 
19
Leffler (1984, 349–51).
 
20
Layne (2006), Leffler (1984, 1992), Lundestad (1986).
 
21
Klassen (2014, 69–70).
 
22
Central Intelligence Agency (1948).
 
23
Kolko (1988).
 
24
Chomsky and Herman (1979), Chomsky (1996).
 
25
Harvey (2005).
 
26
Duménil and Lévy (2013).
 
27
Amsden (2007).
 
28
Chang (2008, 27), United Nations (2005, 75).
 
29
United Nations Development Programme (2010, 4, 72).
 
30
Tirman (2011, 182–192).
 
31
United States (1992).
 
32
Ibid. (1997).
 
33
Ibid. (2002).
 
34
Ibid. (2010).
 
35
Duménil and Lévy (2013).
 
36
Krugman (2012); Milanovic (2016).
 
37
United Nations Development Programme (2013, 65).
 
38
Ibid. (2013, iv).
 
39
Klassen (2013).
 
40
Chandrasekaran (2013).
 
41
Stokes (2009).
 
42
Rosen (2010).
 
43
Leverett and Leverett (2013, 6–7).
 
44
Abukhalil (2004, 31–32).
 
45
United States (2009).
 
46
Mazzetti and Schmitt (2016), Mazzetti and Apuzzo (2016), Bayoumy (2016).
 
47
Finkelstein (2003), Pappe (2006).
 
48
Finkelstein (2003).
 
49
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2017).
 
50
Gendzier (2015).
 
51
Finkelstein (2003).
 
52
Miller (2005).
 
53
For a general overview, see Gelvin (2015). On neoliberal class formation in Syria, see Haddad (2011).
 
54
WikiLeaks (2016).
 
55
Chivers and Schmitt (2013).
 
56
Allam (2015).
 
57
Lister (2015).
 
58
See, for example, JPost.com Staff (2015), Chulov (2015).
 
59
Entous (2015).
 
60
McFaul et al (2014).
 
61
Ploeg (2017, 199–205).
 
62
Mearsheimer (2014).
 
63
Shifrinson (2016a, b).
 
64
Sakwa (2016, x).
 
65
Ibid. (ix).
 
66
On the night of February 20–21, Ukrainian leaders from all sides signed an agreement to resolve the crisis through the formation of a national unity government, witnessed by Russian and European Union officials (Sakwa, 2016, 88).
 
67
Sakwa (2016, 99).
 
68
Klassen (2014, 87–114).
 
69
Ibid. (117–119).
 
70
Carroll and Klassen (2010), Klassen and Carroll (2011).
 
71
Klassen (2014, 183).
 
72
Ibid. (220–248); Shipley (2017).
 
73
Ghobari (2016), Masters (2016), McKernan (2017).
 
74
Chase (2016c); Ling (2016).
 
75
Chase and Fife (2016).
 
76
Ayed et al. (2016).
 
77
Pugliese (2014).
 
78
Lake (2015), CAE (2017).
 
79
Ling (2016).
 
80
Government of Canada (2017c).
 
81
Global Affairs Canada (2015).
 
82
Kapelos (2016).
 
83
Chase (2016b).
 
84
Global Affairs Canada (2016).
 
85
Chase (2016a).
 
86
Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (2015).
 
87
Ibid. (2017).
 
88
Norton (2016).
 
89
Brewster (2017).
 
90
CTV News (2015).
 
91
Zimonjic and Tasker (2017).
 
92
Postmedia News (2016).
 
93
Canadian Press (2017).
 
94
Campion-Smith (2017).
 
95
Brewster (2017).
 
96
Cossette (2017).
 
97
United Nations (2016).
 
98
Ibid. (2016).
 
99
Engler (2016).
 
100
Trudeau (2017).
 
101
Berthiaume (2016a).
 
102
Chase (2016b).
 
103
Akin (2016).
 
104
Berthiaume (2016b).
 
105
Defence 24, 2016; Chase (2015).
 
106
Losh (2017), de Ploeg (2017, 137–145).
 
107
Brewster (2015).
 
108
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (2006).
 
109
Blanchfield (2007).
 
110
MacKinnon (2007).
 
111
National Defence (2017).
 
112
Berthiaume (2016c).
 
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Metadata
Title
What’s Not to Like? Justin Trudeau, the Global Disorder, and Liberal Illusions
Authors
Jerome Klassen
Yves Engler
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73859-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73860-4

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73860-4_4