Canada Alone - Dundurn

Canada Alone

Navigating the Post-American World

Available Sep 26th 2023

Paperback
$ 24.99

Description

Canada must prepare for an isolationist and unpredictable neighbour to the South should a MAGA leader gain the White House in 2025.

The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. But while Canadians have been paying attention to the re-emergence of great power competition, they assume that Americans will continue to provide global leadership in the West.

Canada Alone sketches a more dystopian future: we are likely to see the illiberal, anti-democratic, and authoritarian Make America Great Again movement regain power and dominate American politics in the 2020s. This will have profound foreign policy consequences: if a MAGA Republican — either Donald J. Trump himself or a Trumpian candidate — becomes president in 2025, the West will likely fracture under the twin stresses of a re-invigorated America First policy and the purposeful abandonment of American global leadership.

This would leave Canadians, for the first time in their history, all alone in North America with an increasingly dysfunctional United States. Canada Alone outlines what Canadians will need to navigate this deeply unfamiliar post-American world.

Contributors

Kim Richard Nossal

Kim Richard Nossal is professor emeritus of political studies in the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. The author of a number of works on Canada’s foreign and defence policy, Nossal is a former editor of International Journal, a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Book Details

Paperback
September 2023
5.5x8.5 in
228 pp
9781459752450
ePub
September 2023
-
228 pp
9781459752467
ePub
September 2023
-
228 pp
9781459752474