Canada in International Relations 2100-MON-KASM-OG

1. Introduction to the course. Discussion of main requirements: credit conditions and technical issues.
2. Basic information about Canada. Introduction to the political system of Canada. The Patriation of the Constitution.
3-4. A Brief History of Canada
5. Canada's foreign policy – specificity and main assumptions. Canada as a medium power? Feminist foreign policy. What are "the Canadian values" in foreign policy?
6-7. Canada in the Western Hemisphere. Canada- US relations. Canada-Latin America. Canada in the OAS. NORAD.
8-9. Canada and Europe. Canada GB/Commonwealth. Canada's relations with the EU/France etc. – specificity and main challenges. Canada - Central and Eastern Europe (case study)
10. Canada's relations with African and Asian countries. Canada's relations with China/India/South Africa etc.
11. Canada's relations with other regions of the world. Canada's involvement in the Middle East. Relations with Israel. The role of the Arctic in Canada's Foreign Policy
12. Canada in international organizations. The UN. NATO. International financial institutions. Canada in UN peacekeeping operations. Climate negotiations. Canada's international activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
13. The political status of Quebec. "Peaceful Revolution". International relations of Canada and Quebec
14. Canadian-Polish relations: from history to the present. Priorities and challenges of bilateral relations
15.Selected domestic determinants and challenges (e.g. the situation of indigenous population, language and religious policy in Canada)

Type of course

general courses

Prerequisites (description)

The course aims to present the specificity of Canadian foreign policy, presented both in the broad context of the country's international activity and its internal determinants.

Course coordinators

Anita Oberda-Monkiewicz

Learning outcomes

Knowledge
The student knows the main trends and specifics of foreign policy, its main principles, objectives, national interests and the entities shaping it; correctly identifies the importance of activity on a global level; has a thorough knowledge of the process of formulating foreign policies and their social and economic conditions; has knowledge of the political and economic potential of the state and its main problems

Competence:
The student possesses critical thinking ability that he can use in his own professional activities; is able to appropriately define priorities for the implementation of various academic tasks; is able to critically analyze and independently expand knowledge of the subject; can synthesize knowledge from various sources and formulate correct arguments

Abilities:
The student is able to analyse the internal and external determinants of foreign policy; has the ability to interpret international activity in a broader regional and global context; is able to assess the state of bilateral relations and activity at the multilateral level;

K_W01,K_W02, KW_03, KW_05, K_U01, K_U02, K_K01, K_K02,

Assessment criteria

The course ends with an exam. Main requirements are as follows:
a) attendance at classes - no more that two absences are permitted;
b) activity in classes (30%);
c) a positive grade from the final test (70% of the final assessment).

Bibliography

Grabowski Jan, Historia Kanady, Warszawa 2001.
Wróbel Piotr, Wróbel Anna , Kanada, (seria: Historia Państw świata w XX wieku), Warszawa 2000
Optional Literature:
Canadian Soft Power: Dimensions of Canada´s Influence on the Outside World, TransCanadiana. Polish Journal of Canadian Studies, Poznań 2015, nr 7, http://www.ptbk.org.pl/userfiles/file/TC7/Transcanadiana_7_2014_2015(1).pdf
Douglas Belshow, Canadian History, https://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/;
https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
Gabryś Marcin, Dziedzictwo Pierre'a Trudeau: strategia Kanady w odniesieniu do zagrożeń ekologicznych i problemu suwerenności nad wodami Arktyki na przełomie lat 60. i 70. XX wieku oraz obecnie, w: Łuszczuk Michał (red.), Arktyka na początku XXI wieku : między współpracą a rywalizacją, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2013, s. 485-507.
Gabryś Marcin, Kijewska-Trembecka Marta, Polityka wewnętrzna Kanady. Patriacja konstytucji, Quebec, rdzenni mieszkańcy, w: Kijewska-Trembecka Marta (red.), Kanada na przełomie XX i XXI wieku. Polityka, społeczeństwo, edukacja, Kraków 2013
Gabryś Marcin, Od Irokezów do Wayne’a Gretzky’ego – wprowadzenie do historii Kanady, w: Rzepa Agnieszka, Żuchelkowska Alicja, Gabryś Marcin (red.), Kanada z bliska. Historia - literatura – przekład, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2012
Gabryś Marcin, Soroka Tomasz, Canada as a Selective Power. Canada’s Role and International Position after 1989, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2017 (wybór tekstów)
Gecelovsky Paul, In Search of Canada’s International Identity in an Emerging Order, in: Murray Robert W., Gecelovsky Paul (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs, Palgrave MacMillan, Ottawa 2021, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353047113_Canada%27s_Arctic_Foreign_Policy#fullTextFileContent
Kijewska-Trembecka M., Quebec i Quebecois. Ideologie dążeń niepodległościowych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2012 https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/item/86650/kijewska-trembecka_quebec_i_quebecois_2007.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Marczuk-Karbownik Magdalena, Niełatwe sąsiedztwo: wybrane problemy z dziejów stosunków kanadyjsko-amerykańskich w XIX i XX wieku, w: Rzepa Agnieszka, Żuchelkowska Alicja, Gabryś Marcin (red.), Kanada z bliska…, op.cit.
Marczuk-Karbownik Magdalena, Stosunki polsko-kanadyjskie – problemy i wyzwania w XXI wieku , [w:] Pietrasiak Małgorzata, Stelmach Michał, Żakowski Karol (red.), Polityka zagraniczna Polski. 25 lat doświadczeń, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016, s. 161–180, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305872924_Stosunki_polsko-kanadyjskie_-_problemy_i_wyzwania_w_XXI_wieku
Osiński J., Zawiślańska I. (wstęp i tłumaczenie), Konstytucja Kanady, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa 1998
Pastusiak Longin, Polska-Kanada. Kraje odległe a jednak bliskie, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 1994
Radek Robert, System konstytucyjny Kanady, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa 2011
Reczyńska Anna, Soroka Tomasz, Polska emigracja do Kanady na przełomie XX i XXI wieku w kontekście kanadyjskiej polityki migracyjnej, „Studia migracyjne. Przegląd polonijny”, 2013, nr 3
Sadowski Piotr, Stosunki Kanady z Ameryką Łacińską, w: Gawrycki M. F. (red.), Ameryka Łacińska we współczesnym świecie, WUW, Warszawa 2006, s.335-346
Soroka Tomasz, Polityka zagraniczna. Kanada w globalnym systemie relacji politycznych i wojskowych, [w:] Kijewska-Trembecka Marta (red.), Kanada na przełomie XX i XXI wieku. Polityka, społeczeństwo, edukacja, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2013, s. 97-160

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