While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
by Andrew Cohen
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For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride? With 9/11 and the international "war on terrorism," the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect to sit at the global table by virtue of our economic power without pursuing a foreign policy worthy of our history, geography, and diversity? Canada has been getting by show more on the cheap, writes Andrew Cohen in this timely, forceful, and insightful new book. Our reluctance to pay our own way has had a cost: it has eroded the pillars of our international stature. We are still trading on the reputation this country built two generations ago, but it is a reputation we no longer deserve. We claim to be engaged abroad, but for too long we have been a freeloader, trying to do the same for less, practising pinch-penny diplomacy and foreign policy on the cheap. Our capacity in these key areas has become glaringly inadequate, and now that weakness is compromising our ability to honour our traditional commitments overseas. The time is ripe for a thorough re-examination of our foreign policy, to affirm our values, to win the respect of our allies, to carry our weight. show lessTags
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Andrew Cohen is an a ward-winning journalist whom the New York Times has called one of "Canada's most distinguished authors." A native of Montreal, he attended Choate-Rosemary Hall, McGill University, and the University of Cambridge. Among his host-selling hooks is While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, a finalist for the Governor show more General's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Cohen has won two National Newspaper Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and received the Queen's Diamond jubilee Medal. He has written for UPI, Time, and the Globe and Mail from Washington, as well as London, Berlin, Toronto, and Ottawa, where he teaches journalism at Carleton University and writes a syndicated column for the Ouawa Citizen. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau; Joe Clark; Kim Campbell; Stephen Harper
- Important places
- Canada
- Dedication
- For my son,Alexander Elliot Cohen and my daughter, Rachel Hannah Cohen.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 327.7100904 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies North America Canada
- LCC
- F1034.2 .C558 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Canada General
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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