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Brave New Canada

Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World

by (author) Derek H. Burney & Fen Osler Hampson

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2014
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773543980
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773596221
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $19.95

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Globalization and the shifting tectonic plates of the international system have led to an increasingly competitive world. If Canada hopes to gain advantage from the dramatic developments underway it will have to aggressively adapt its foreign and domestic policies and priorities under the clear direction of the federal government or accept being left behind.

In Brave New Canada, Derek Burney and Fen Hampson identify the key trends that are reshaping the world's geopolitics and economics and discuss the challenges Canada confronts with the rise of China and other global centres of power. Their examination of a wide range of themes - including the place of pluralistic democratic values in diplomacy, economics, and trade, the ways that Canada should reset relations with its neighbour to the south, as well as how to manage new global security threats - paints a picture of how Canada can become bold, assertive, and confident and easily adjust to a new global landscape.

Arguing that a successful foreign policy cannot be crafted by looking at the world in the rear-view mirror, Brave New Canada offers evidence-based, provocative prescriptions for both the public and private sectors that should stimulate discussion and command widespread attention.

About the authors

Derek H. Burney, senior strategic advisor of Norton Rose Fulbright, served as chief of staff to Brian Mulroney (1987-89) and as Canada's ambassador to the United States (1989-93).

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Fen Osler Hampson is the director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics Program and professor at Carleton University. He is the co-author of Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World (2014) with Derek H. Burney.

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