Evaluating Canadian economic diplomacy: Canada's relations with emerging markets in the Americas

Macdonald, Laura

doi:10.1080/11926422.2016.1144212

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“…This point is important as it expands the knowledge on Canada-Brazil trade relations. Most studiesat least involving this periodexplain the lukewarm relations by emphasizing Canadian foreign policy mishaps and/or ideological differences between Harper's Conservative and Lula/Dilma's "leftist" governments (see Hewitt 2012, Macdonald 2016)all made worse by the 2013 scandal involving Canadian espionage of Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy. These analyses are correct, yet they do not properly recognize the interests of Brazil's private sector and its impact on trade policy.…”

Section: Mercosul and Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade, conflict, and opportunity: taking advantage of others’ protectionism and isolationism – the case of MERCOSUL

Farias

2019

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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The election of President Trump, Brexit, and the amplifying of isolationist voices have signaled the possible emergence of a new eraone of retreat in the Liberal International Order. While this is one way of defining the present moment, it does not capture the full picture, as uncertainty has opened and/or widened new partnerships. In this scenario, MERCOSUL (Southern Common Market) has both sought and been sought by a growing number of countries and international organizations, recently (re)launching free trade negotiations with many partners, including Canada. This paper explores the empirical aspects of MERCOSUL's apparently sudden growth in attractiveness, reflecting external and internal factors, with particular attention to Brazil recent negotiations. The case allows an opportunity to reflect if the world is witnessing indeed an "unravelling" of the multilateralist world order or rather a re-adjustment, whereby increasing diversification is pursued through untraditional and overlooked partnerships. The idea is not to minimize the significant worldwide impacts of the US' inward-looking trade policies and discourse or deny the growth in appeal to isolationism, but to question whether such positions are still exceptions, or if reports on the open trade system's death have only been greatly exaggerated.

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Section: Mercosul and Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade, conflict, and opportunity: taking advantage of others’ protectionism and isolationism – the case of MERCOSUL

Farias

2019

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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“…Reports of the ecological predations and human rights conflicts in which Canadian multinational corporations are involved, especially though not exclusively in resource extraction, and more systematic studies of Canada's role in the world have offered a serious challenge to the conventional narratives of Canada as a middle power or dependency (Shipley 2017 A new twist on the argument that Canada is not an imperialist power has recently been made by J.Z. Garrod and Laura Macdonald (Garrod and Macdonald 2016;Macdonald 2016aMacdonald , 2016b. They do not argue that Canada is a dependency or mere satellite of the United States, but instead argue that the very idea of imperialism rooted in a nation state, and the related notion of U.S. hegemony within the world system, are anachronistic.…”

Section: Canada In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To start, they argue, with a focus on Latin America, that American power has declined significantly in the face of the rise in power of China and Brazil as regional counterweights, and of an increasing number of governments that now inhabit a space outside the orbit of U.S. influence (such as the pink tide governments in Latin America). "Brazil in particular", Macdonald (Macdonald 2016b, p. 30) argues, "has become a major regional and global actor" while other "post-neoliberal states" in Latin America, which experienced steady economic growth in the 2000s and pushed successfully for regional multilateral institutions, have been able to act more independently of the United States (Macdonald 2016b(Macdonald , 30, 2016a. The United States, Macdonald concludes quite strikingly (Macdonald 2016a, p. 4), "lacks the clear political, economic, and military pre-eminence in the region that it enjoyed for most of the twentieth century."…”

Section: Canada In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Canadian capital and secondary imperialism in Latin America

Gordon

Webber

2018

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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The last several years have witnessed a renewal of critical scholarship which understands Canada as a secondary imperialist power. While conceptualizations of Canada as a dependency of the United States have lost intellectual ground in the Canadian political economy literature, the rejection of the notion that Canada is imperialist has more recently drawn on the transnationalization thesis found in, inter alia, Robinson and Sklair. This article refutes these central premises. It argues, first, that Canadian capital can be measured as "Canadian". In turn, because there is a Canadian capitalist class we need to theorize its relationship with the Canadian state. Second, this Canadian capitalist class pursues its interests abroad, with the support of the Canadian state, as a secondary imperialist power within the hierarchical world system. Third, expansion of identifiably Canadian capital abroad is exemplified in Canadian investment trends in mining and finance in Latin America in recent decades.

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“…Certain aspects of the relations between Canada and Latin America have already become the subject of special scientific research. In particular, it is worth noting a number of works (Heidrich, 2016;Komkova, 2012;Macdonald, 2016;McKenna, 2018) which studied certain aspects of the Canadian-Latin American dialogue, but did not conduct an in-depth analysis of the trade relations and the changes in the structure of imports and exports. The aforementioned authors turned to the trade and economic ties between Canada and Latin America, but did not formulate in their works a holistic view of the evolution of these ties in the new century, showing only individual plots and problems, and analyzing the cases of individual countries.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%