Canada and World Politics
The first major foreign policy decision made by Canada in 1854.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
This document outlines the trade in North America.
What is CUSMA?
The five permanent members of the security council with the power of veto.
Who is China, Russia, France, US, and UK?
The goals / interests that a country defines for itself, and which influence how that country interacts with other members of the international community.
What is Foreign Policy?
This ideology is far-right, ultranationalist and built around dictatorial power, suppression, and state control.
What is fascism?
The UN first used force and invoked chapter 7 of the charter during this war.
The terms used to describe Canada's foreign policy.
What is Multilateralism and Soft-Power?
What is the UK?
This physical geographic site is being used as a bargaining chip in the current conflict and is cited for the reason why energy prices are so high.
What is the Straight of Hormuz?
Geography, Domestic Issues, Individuals, Political Culture
What are foreign policy influences?
This ideology is based on the economic and political production are owned or controlled by the collective instead of privately.
The US renamed this water region, although the rest of the world didn't really care or refused to use the term.
Who is Stephen Harper and what is the war of 1812?
This trade block formed a common currency.
This organization was initially used to discourage independence but has since changed to an institution that promotes peace, economic development, and fighting against ignorance, disease, inequality, and racisim.
What is the Commonwealth?
This organization's formal establishment was after WW2 but had played and and integral and informal role throughout the war (Plesh, 2010).
What is the United Nations?
According to the reading by Bernasek (2003), the Grameen Bank in this country, was a leader in women's economic improvement.
Who is Bangladesh?
This political tool cans be used to force domestic consumers to buy domestically-made products or force companies to move businesses into the issuing country.
What are tariffs?
This term describes Canada's trade prior to making the US it's largest trading partner.
What is mercantilism?
Often cited as one of the key tools of globalization, this international financial institution provides loans and economic guidance to developing countries, helping integrate them into the global economy.
What is the IMF?
As governments race to regulate emerging technologies, concerns about bias, job disruption, and the unchecked power of large tech firms have made this rapidly advancing field one of the most debated global issues today.
What is A.I.?
This monetary organization is considerably larger than its counterpart and has many affiliates or subsidiaries.
What is the World Bank?
This philosopher warned that a free society must be prepared to deny unlimited tolerance to those who would use that very tolerance to destroy it.
Who is Karl Popper?
This term is highly contentious and politically subjective. There are differing opinions on what it constitutes.
What is Terrorism?
This 19th‑century belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, providing a moral justification for westward territorial growth
What is manifest destiny?
It is the "McDonald's" term used in global economics to measure purchasing power parity (PPP) between countries currencies.
What is the Big-Mac Index?
This term is Steven's favourite phase to describe fair global politics between any nations, groups, or individuals.
What is "compromise is when everyone is equally unhappy"?
These two countries were militarily non-aligned with NATO during the cold war.
Who is Finland and Sweden?
This term claims to represent the "common people" against a perceived corrupt or self-serving "elite".
What is populism?
This is the only modern (in the past 50 years) US president to complete a term without entering a war.
Who is Jimmy Carter?