Secession or Reform? The Case of Canada

Today it is generally acknowledged that 1989 not only closed the 20th century prematurely, but also marked a major turning point in modern history. While there is hardly disagreement concerning the nature of the bipolar world left behind, accounts of the geopolitical configuration of what has replaced it have all failed, in various ways, to capture the dynamics of new post-Cold War political realities. Both apologists for the liberal-democratic status quo, who celebrated the alleged end of history, and old leftists, who foresaw nothing but more misery and exploitation as a result of the now unopposed expansion of American imperialism, deduced their conclusions from questionable ideological premises and, more importantly, on the basis of shared misconceptions about exactly why the USSR collapsed

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