Kanada jako mocarstwo selektywne w okresie rządów Justina Trudeau (2015–2022)
Canada as a selective power under Justin Trudeau (2015-2022)

Author(s): Marcin Gabryś
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Governance, Geopolitics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Canada; foreign policy; Justin Trudeau; power; selective power
Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the article is the assumption that after the end of the Cold War, the main theories describing Canada's international position ceased to adequately describe the country's role and international importance. It therefore became necessary to introduce a new approach - selective power. The article describes its main assumptions, first of all, the high selectivity and hierarchization of Canada's fields of international activity and the fact that the country's foreign policy is increasingly inward-looking, based on hard interests, rational and pragmatic, in which the calculation of profits and losses matters. Such characteristics are relatively constant and detached from the political line of a party currently in power. In the next section of the article, the theory of selective superpower is used to examine Canada's international activity under Justin Trudeau using selected examples, including climate and energy policy.

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