Awards
- Winner of Errol Sharp Award awarded by the Society for Socialist Studies 2015 (Canada)
- Winner of Outstanding Academic Titles awarded by CHOICE (Canada).
Overview
A fresh assessment of the neoliberal political economy behind Canadian foreign policy from Afghanistan to Haiti, Joining Empire establishes Jerome Klassen as one of the most astute analysts of contemporary Canadian foreign policy and its relationship to US global power. Using empirical data on production, trade, investment, profits, and foreign ownership in Canada, as well as a new analysis of the overlap among the boards of directors of the top 250 firms in Canada and the top 500 firms worldwide, Klassen argues that it is the increasing integration of Canadian businesses into the global economy that drives Canada's new, increasingly aggressive, foreign policy. Using government documents, think tank studies, media reports, and interviews with business leaders from across Canada, Klassen outlines recent systematic changes in Canadian diplomatic and military policy and connects them with the rise of a new transnational capitalist class. Joining Empire is sure to become a classic of Canadian political economy.
Full Product Details
Author: Jerome Klassen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781442614604
ISBN 10: 1442614609
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 16 September 2014
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Joining Empire is perhaps the most lucid and empirically grounded analysis of the formation of the transnationalized fraction of the Canadian corporate elite and the development of an imperial power bloc to date... This book is a major contribution and deserves to be widely read.' -- Neil Burron Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol 41:01:2016 'Considering the dominance of Neoliberalism, this contribution could not be timelier... Klassen's greatest theoretical contribution is how he ties together the vectors of Empire to provide a well-rounded view of capitalism.' -- David Plazek American Review of Canadian Studies, February 2016 'This is political economy scholarship at its best... This study's importance is not just Canada-centric; its theoretical framework and methodology are relevant to scholars researching foreign policy in other Western nation-states... Highly recommended.' -- A.F. Johnson Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015 'We now have a theoretically sophisticated and up-to-date account of how Canadian foreign and security policy expresses the class interests of Canadian capital.' -- Bill Burgess Labour/Le Travail, vol 76: Fall 2015
'This is political economy scholarship at its best... This study's importance is not just Canada-centric; its theoretical framework and methodology are relevant to scholars researching foreign policy in other Western nation-states... Highly recommended.' -- A.F. Johnson Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015 'We now have a theoretically sophisticated and up-to-date account of how Canadian foreign and security policy expresses the class interests of Canadian capital.' -- Bill Burgess Labour/Le Travail, vol 76: Fall 2015
'This is political economy scholarship at its best... This study's importance is not just Canada-centric; its theoretical framework and methodology are relevant to scholars researching foreign policy in other Western nation-states... Highly recommended.' -- A.F. Johnson Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015
Author Information
Jerome Klassen is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies.
