POLI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Hector Fabre, De Facto, Charles De Gaulle
17 May 2018
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QC’S INT’L RELATIONS (04.04)
Research paper
- Due April 13 before midnight (online submission)
- To quote from French article, quote in French
- Use first article for the first section: synthesis
o Not too long (since it’s 5/35 points)
o Purpose: update the reader on a topic in QC politics
o Don’t report in details what’s said in the article: just the salient points
o A personal grasp of the situation:
▪ Not our opinion (which is in the concluding section)
▪ Remain as objective as we can in the synthesis
▪ What’s the state of things re: X topic
▪ Show our personal understanding of the debate – which can be informed by
what we’ve read and discussed for this class
▪ We can update the Etat du QC article w/ what’s happened since it was written
- Second part (15/35)
o Most important part
o Highlight elements of rupture/continuity
o What is it in the current debate (that we just exposed/synthesized) that is new and
what is a continuity of old debates that we’ve seen in QC policies esp. since 1960s
o Elements of context that might have not been there 10 years ago
o Elements that might change the debate a bit
o This is where our independent research comes into play
o Can take a text from the bibliography of the relevant QQ textbook
o 5 points for second source: to reward independent research
o Conclusions of second article can be in agreement or in contrast w/ Etat du QC article
- Conclusion
o Free to express your own personal thoughts about the topic
- File format: word, pdf
- Cab write in the first person in the conclusion
- You can cite more articles
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- Key reading from Louis Balthazar
- B: among non-sovereign states among the world, QC is probably the most active on the int’l
scene
- Most active in the sense that it has developed institutional links w/ more than 20 countries
around the world
- There are institutions having been created to try to structure QC’s foreign relations
- This is special about QC
- It’s peculiar for a non-sovereign state to act on the int’l scene as if it were an independent
state (what QC state has been doing for a long time now)
- We have the Ministry of int’l relations & francophonie
o Over 500 civil servants work for the ministry
o Over 300 of them (additional ones) working abroad for the QC state
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o Abroad: Delegation Generales (Paris, Brussels, NY, London), delegations which are
smaller, offices (bureaux du QC a l’etranger) and even smaller offices called antennas
(small office w/ a couple of employees who have as a task of keeping the QC state
informed about what’s going on on the ground in X country – in countries where QC
thinks there might be opportunities to further develop int’l relations w/ the country in
the future)
o QC Premier goes on official visits to foreign countries – and he’s received as a PM of
any other country
▪ Typically we see it w/ France
▪ Couillard went to France last week: it had all the decorum of an official visit
of a foreign representative
▪ This is also striking: to have a small non-sovereign state have all these int’l
relations
▪ QC is the most active in this sense
- This started at the end of 19th century w/ “les agents generaux du QC”
o The first AG was Hector Fabre in 1882 – working in Paris for the QC gov’t
o There were a few others appointed over the years
- But it really starts in 1960s that there was a huge revival of QC’s int’l relations
o Int’l relations started to soar in 1960s
o 4 factors have been identified as having led to this soaring
▪ 1. Quiet Revolution
• Ideology of development & emancipation
• Political environment where we started to perceive the QC state as the
state of the French-Canadian nation, and we wanted to use it as a tool
for emancipation, development & emancipation
• If the QC state is a genuine state that Quebecers can use for
emancipation, it might be a good idea to project this image of the “etat
national” on the int’l scene
• More generally, it was a period where we started to want to explore
new ways for QC politics and going abroad becoming one of these
new ways
• Creation of the first Delegation Generale in Paris in 1961
• Similar links developed around the same time w/ people in NY – to try
to raise capital to nationalize hydro-electric companies
• First institutional links b/w QC state and finance state in NY were
developed
▪ 2. Int’l climate at the time
• A period of renewal, effervescence, dynamism
• Can be seen w/ the Kennedy era in the US
• A period where there was a new dynamism in US foreign policies
• In France, it was the return to power of De Gaulle
• De Gaulle wished to change the image of France on the int’l scene
• Europe was still under construction after the war
• It was a period of decolonization in Africa
• More broadly, what this period started to make clear is the
phenomenon of domestication of int’l relations → we started to realize
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Document Summary
Due april 13 before midnight (online submission) To quote from french article, quote in french. Conclusion: free to express your own personal thoughts about the topic. Cab write in the first person in the conclusion. B: among non-sovereign states among the world, qc is probably the most active on the int"l scene. Most active in the sense that it has developed institutional links w/ more than 20 countries around the world. There are institutions having been created to try to structure qc"s foreign relations. It"s peculiar for a non-sovereign state to act on the int"l scene as if it were an independent state (what qc state has been doing for a long time now) But it really starts in 1960s that there was a huge revival of qc"s int"l relations: int"l relations started to soar in 1960s, 4 factors have been identified as having led to this soaring, 1.
