Canada and Great Power Competition

David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He is series editor for Palgrave’s Canada and International Affairs, Editor in Chief of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal and Fellow of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His research focuses on Canadian foreign policy, mediation, negotiation, fragile states, grey zone conflict and hybrid warfare.  His current SHHRC funded Research examines   diaspora politics and fragile and conflict affected states.Laura Macdonald is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, social policies and citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance, Canada-Latin American relations and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Jeremy Paltiel is Professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He publishes widely on Canada-China relations, Chinese foreign policy, the Chinese tradition and its impact on China’s foreign relations, China and human rights and on domestic Chinese politics. Select texts include in 2019 “Canada’s Middle Power Ambivalence: The Palimpsest of US Power Under the Chinese Shadow” and in 2018 “Facing China: Canada Between Fear and Hope” and in 2016 co-edited a volume with Laura Macdonald on Canada and emerging markets.

• Part-1: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Introduction: No Middle Place In a Tight Space.- Chapter 2: The Crisis in Sino-Canadian Relations: How Middle-Power Dissolves.- Chapter 3: Canada’s Strategic Dilemma: The United States, China, and the World.- Chapter 4: Grey Zone Conflict: The Political and Economic Consequences of Geopolitical Rivalry.- Chapter 5: Lessons drawn from managing Canada-China agricultural trade and Canada-Cuba relations.- Chapter 6: Canada-US economic relations and the Green New deal- Canada-U.S. relations within a decarbonizing North America.- Part 2: The Political Economy of Canada’s Place in the World.- Chapter 7: Canadian trade and investment policy: Path dependency, adaptation, and the decline of the rules based international order.- Chapter 8: Canada and the Global Knowledge Economy: Between Knowledge Feudalism and Digital Economic Nationalism.- Chapter 9: Canada’s Changing Foreign Investment Regime in a time of Global Crisis and Transition.- Chapter 10: International Financial Institutions.- Chapter 11: Canada’s Feminist Trade Policy.- Part 3: The Path Ahead in a World of Rivals.- Chapter 12: Risk Governance as a Guide to Canadian Policy Responses to a Global Health Emergency.- Chapter 13: Canada as an Energy Middle Power: Some Implications for the Energy-Environment Policy Nexus.- Chapter 14: Trade and Culture: Rival Nations and Rival Socioeconomic Objectives.- Chapter 15: Canada in the World of Development Finance: No Middle Place in a Tight Space Sculpted by Big Infrastructure.- Conclusion.