Canada’s relationship with the United States and its place in the world currently occupy distinct spheres in the minds of policymakers, intellectuals, and citizens. At home, Canada is thought to enjoy a “special” relationship with the United States; abroad, it occupies a place as the world’s problem-solver and peacekeeper. Patrick Lennox analyzes six key events in the history of relations between the two countries to reveal the underlying connection between the Canada-US relationship and Canada's place in the world. The war in Afghanistan is but the latest in a series of paradoxical interactions between the two states abroad that has resulted from the hierarchy in Canada-US relations at home.

Dr. Patrick Lennox recently held the J.L. Granatstein Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary. He writes on a range of issues related to Canadian and American defence and foreign policy, as well as maritime security and strategy. He is co-editor of An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges and Choices for the Future (2008), and author of At Home and Abroad: the Canada-U.S. Relationship and Canada’s Place in the World (2009).

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