Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Trudeau Govenment

Promise and Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID5880642
AuthorsJohn Kirton (0000-0003-3354-8681, Institute of International Relations Prague, corresponding author), John J Kirton (Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, and formerly with the Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia.)
Year1978
Volume33
Issue2
Pages287
Publication date1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/40201615
OpenAlexW4235983934
LanguageEN
Citations received4

On 29 May 1968 Prime Minister Trudeau made the dramatic declaration that his government, if elected, intended, through a full-scale review of external relations, to give Canada a new foreign policy and a new role in the world. Sceptics had grounds for doubting the seriousness of this promise and the likelihood of its fulfilment. Those concerned with the external environment might well wonder whether the complex, intractible dynamics of international politics would permit such a carefully constructed transformation by a country of middle rank. Those following domestic events would realize that the announcement had been issued in the midst

Declaration · Economics · Foreign policy · Foreign relations · Government (linguistics · International relations · International trade · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Seriousness · Skepticism · Wonder · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Psychology · Public Administration · Russia and Soviet political economy · Social Psychology

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