Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. National Independence and the National Interest: O.D. Skelton’s Department of External Affairs in the 1920s 11
6. “Behaving as Adults”: External Affairs and North American Security in the 1930s 27
7. National Identity, Public Opinion, and the Department of External Affairs, 1935–1939 51
8. When the Department of External Affairs Mattered – And When it Shouldn’t Have 69
9. The Department of External Affairs and the United Nations Idea, 1943–1965 81
10. Sovereignty and Security: Canadian Diplomacy, the United States, and the Arctic, 1943–1968 101
11. Advancing the National Interest: Marcel Cadieux, Jules Léger, and Canadian Participation in the Francophone Community, 1964–1972 121
12. External Affairs and Canadian External Trade Policy, 1945–1982 137
13. Conflicting Visions: Pierre Trudeau, External Affairs, and Energy Policy 155
14. Setting the Canadian Foreign Policy Agenda, 1984–2009: Prime Ministers as Prime Actors? 181
15. Engaging the United States: The Department of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Policy, 1982–2005 207
16. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: Interdepartmental Leadership and the Beijing Conference on Women 229
17. Bibliography 245
18. Contributors 263
19. Index 265