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The Art of the Possible

Government and Foreign Policy in Canada

by (author) James Eayrs

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2024
Category
General, North America, General, General, General, History & Theory
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487596583
    Publish Date
    Dec 2018
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802060549
    Publish Date
    Dec 2024
    List Price
    $37.95

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Description

This study, admirable in the logic of its organization and in the freshness of its style, provides an absorbing account of historical developments and current practices in the making of Canada's foreign policy. It analyses carefully and vividly the way in which the prime minister and members of his cabinet, members of the civil service, Parliament, and the military establishment have come together in peace and war to discover "the possible" for Canada's relations with other countries.

About the author

James Eayrs is a former professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto and a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He received the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 1965 for the first two volumes of In Defence of Canada. Among his other books are The Art of the Possible and Diplomacy and its Discontents.

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