POLS 375 Lecture Notes - Henry Kissinger

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 375
• Professor: Jason Zorbas

Document Summary

D tente and the return of the cold war. With the election of trudeau by canadians, we see the beginning of change and continuation in canadian foreign policy. There is also a great amount of continuity between pearson, trudeau and. In terms of the process of foreign policy, under trudeau, we see: The beginning of the centralization of power in the pmo. In a movement away, in many respects, from parliamentary democracy. At some point, we will move towards the idea of electing a dictator (prime minister with majority government). Ivan head was a special assistant to trudeau on foreign policy. There is a slight connection to henry kissinger (u. s. ) because he was an advisor to nixon and so was ivan head. The big deal about this guy was that he was making foreign policy. Sending this special assistant in place of an external affairs minister or foreign affairs minister was undercutting tradition.