Beset by a pandemic, hemmed-in by an America-first administration in Washington and punitive recrimination from a Chinese government with global ambitions, the shrinking horizons of a foreign economic policy premised on liberal internationalism and multilateral institutionalism have sapped Canada’s global ambitions.

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.

This book examines Canada Among Nations over the last year and projects forward into the year 2022. 2021 was a year of challenges for Canada and a watershed in its engagement with the global political economy. Beset by a pandemic, hemmed-in by an America-first administration in Washington and punitive recrimination from a Chinese government with global ambitions, the shrinking horizons of a foreign economic policy premised on liberal internationalism and multilateral institutionalism have sapped Canada’s global ambitions.David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.Laura Macdonald is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Canada.Jeremy Paltiel is Professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Examines Canada among nations over the last year and projects forward into the year 2022 Discusses the shrinking horizons of a foreign economic policy premised on liberal internationalism Presents the challenges for Canada in the year 2021