Canada and the Long Road to Trade Diversity
Canadian attitudes towards their geography wax and wane as sure as the tide: sometimes proximity to the world’s foremost economic and military power is a blessing, and other times a curse. Against the backdrop of these changing opinions, Canada’s economic destiny has remained firmly fused to that of its North American neighbor. But will Asia’s emergence as a new global center of gravity change all that?
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, Ian Bremmer argues that international politics are shifting away from the post-Cold War standard of US leadership and towards a multipolar landscape where nations are more evenly matched and thus less willing to take their cues from Washington. Bremmer argues that this system will reward countries that diversify their economic and political relationships over ones that are overly dependent on one power or another. For example, a country like Turkey which is positioned between East and West is better situated than a country like Japan that is heavily reliant on the US. The book identifies Canada as a ‘pivot power,’ that will benefit from the new order. Canada is one of the few developed countries to be singled out, with the rationale being that Canada has been diversifying its trade links away from the United States, and that Canada has what the world wants: natural resources.
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