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Book SynopsisSince 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada''s security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government''s response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada''s decision to side openly wit
Trade Review"Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis manages, in one slim volume, to provide a helpful overview and in-depth analysis of the conflict and Canada's reaction, to discuss the factors determining such a response, and to make a contribution to a 'neorealist' theory of international relations." Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria and author of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
