POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Multilateralism, Liberal Internationalism, North American Free Trade Agreement
13 May 2018
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POLI 342
FRI - 02.02.2018
IDEATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON CDN
FOREIGN POLICY MAKING
WRAPPING UP INTERNATIONALISM
Liberal internationalism features:
•management of conflicts
•multilateral approaches to cooperation
•above point formalized through international institutions
•using national resources for the international system on
the whole (for the management of global concepts)
•emphasis on international law
•though we live in anarchy, these are the efforts to
create/maintain stability
•Russia/Crimea: violated international law, paid in
sanctions
Internationalism as dominant idea:
•PET: failed alternative, didn’t produce any policy, did not
interrupt multilateralism
•In the Trudeau years, Canada was said to be “the most
well-connected country in the world”
Some examples of this:
•participation in UN Peacekeeping by Pearson
•Conf of Security and Cooperation
•many more
MULRONEY’S INTERNATIONALISM (1984-93): active
internationalism, with focus one economics and industrial
policy
•bilateral coop with US was priority number 1
•criticized for relationship with US (thought to be ignoring
other countries too much)
•multilateral diplomacy continued, increased
•reinvesting Canada in diff ventures via the UN,
champion in international peacekeeping
•environmental accords and trade agreements
(NAFTA)
•active in the Commonwealth and La Francophonie
(l’OIF) — where the US in absent so counterbalancing
their influence
•also very active in UN missions, responded to almost
every request
•main point: continuity from after WW2 to be a global
player and maintain relationship with US — post 9/11
era will challenge this
From video: After Cold War, peacekeeping missions
become higher stakes, peace needs to not only be
maintained but created. This makes Canada’s actions
become more combative. “Missions more dangerous,
more robust”
CHRÉTIEN’S INTERNATIONALISM LITE (1993-2003):
from the end of the Cold War, absence of nuclear threat,
peacekeeping becoming more difficult
•spending cuts to make up budget deficits, cuts to
foreign policy areas
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Document Summary
Internationalism as dominant idea: pet: failed alternative, didn"t produce any policy, did not interrupt multilateralism, in the trudeau years, canada was said to be the most well-connected country in the world . Some examples of this: participation in un peacekeeping by pearson, conf of security and cooperation, many more. From video: after cold war, peacekeeping missions become higher stakes, peace needs to not only be maintained but created. Chr tien"s internationalism lite (1993-2003): from the end of the cold war, absence of nuclear threat, peacekeeping becoming more dif cult: spending cuts to make up budget de cits, cuts to foreign policy areas. 3: trying promote agenda on peacekeeping and security but we are not spending the money to actually be involved on the ground, rhetoric without actual action/involvement. Canada"s foreign policy remains prudent in that we did not join the iraq war because it was not un approved.
