| dc.contributor.author | Keeble, Edna. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:36:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1994 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN93778 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55413 | |
| dc.description | This thesis develops a framework of four levels of analysis to show the determinants of prime ministerial behaviour in Canadian foreign policy. It focuses on the role of the prime minister where the notion of "role" is grounded both in the levels-of-analysis tradition in the study of foreign policy and in the rise of neo-institutionalism in the study of political behaviour. The thesis then applies this framework to the foreign policy actions of Pierre Elliott Trudeau who was Canada's prime minister from 1968 to 1984. | en_US |
| dc.description | The central contention of the thesis is that the role of the prime minister is to protect the federal interest as the champion of federalism or the defender of the federal faith and that this role, in Trudeau's case, not only distracted him from foreign policy matters to deal-with domestic affairs, primarily with the constitution and matters relating to the accommodation of Quebec in the Canadian confederation, but also influenced his foreign policy actions in the defence, trade and aid fields to ensure the protection of the federal interest vis-a-vis the provinces. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thus, the role level of analysis, which has not been addressed adequately to date in the study of Trudeau's part in foreign policy, shows that the federal-provincial game is one played both at home and abroad. More importantly, it shows that "domestic" policy and "foreign" policy cannot be analytically separated if we are to understand the role of the prime minister in Canadian external affairs. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1994. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | History, Canadian. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, International Law and Relations. | en_US |
| dc.title | The role of the prime minister in Canadian foreign policy: Trudeau, defence, trade and aid. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
