Canada in the United Nations General Assembly from Trudeau to Trudeau

Abstract

All Canadian governments say that Canada must look to its friends and allies and like-minded partners to achieve greater cooperation on global issues. But who are these countries exactly? To gain a better understanding of where Ottawa stands in the world, with whom and under what conditions, we analyze Canada's voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly from 1980 to 2017. We find that Canada's overall record tends toward that of Western European states. We find no evidence of greater affinity with US positions either when the Democrats are in power in Washington or when the conservative parties are in power in Ottawa. We identify a sharp pro-US turn in the Harper years and also confirm that the government of Justin Trudeau started off by maintaining rather than reversing this trend.

China and its Region: An Assessment of Hegemonic Prospects

“…45 Here, too, we can make two observations. First, the dyadic scores for the PRC tend to be higher than the same scores for the 44 For discussion and application, see Vucetic and Ramadanovic (2020). 45 Even the highest individual scores for US dyads, Korea and Japan (around 25%), were nowhere near as high as those for the "traditional" US allies in the UNGA, namely Israel, Micronesia, and the Marshal Islands (around 90%).…”