Canadian Foreign Policy, 1967 1977 a Second Golden Decade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9939780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Escott Reid (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-181 |
| Publication date | 1967-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206702200201 |
| OpenAlex | W2320877576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
I believe that Canada could undertake during the next ten years two crucially important creative tasks in world affairs. I believe that if Canada were to undertake these tasks the next ten years could become a golden decade in Canadian foreign policy, comparable to the great decade of 1941 to 1951. I can hear some Canadians saying, Why should we bother about taking creative action in world affairs? We have enough problems arising out of day-by-day relations with our neighbours to keep our External Affairs Department busy and out of mischief. Anyhow, the great powers run the world and they won't listen to us. But that is surely not the kind of people that we are. We Canadians have made constructive contributions to world affairs, contributions which have been large for a country of our size and power. They a part of our national heritage. I believe that the people of Canada intend that Canada should continue to make constructive contributions to world affairs. W. B. Yeats was one of the representatives in the Senate of Ireland of the Protestant minority. He rose in the Senate of Ireland once to protest against legislation which he claimed was directed against his people, the 200,000 Southern Irish Protestants. We, he said, are no petty people. We one of the great stocks of Europe. We the people of Burke; we the people of Grattan; we the people of Swift; the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created the best of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence. Yeats spoke thus of a people who number only one per cent, of the population of Canada and yet he called them, quite
Constructive · Foreign policy · Irish · Legislation · Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2010 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |