Canada and Competing Indo-Pacific Visions of China and the US

Kenneth Holland is a former president of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and has published several books, articles and book chapters on Canada’s foreign policy, including “Canada and the Indo-Pacific Strategy” (2021), “How Unipolarity Impacts Canada’s Engagement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” (2017), “The Canada-United States Defence Relationship:  A Partnership for the Twenty-First Century” (2014),  “An Evaluation of Canada’s Engagement in Afghanistan” (2013), and Canadian-United States Engagement in Afghanistan: An Analysis of the “Whole of Government” Approach (2009). Prof. Holland has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary, Fulbright Professor of Law at Tohoku University in Japan, and Research Fellow at the Australian National University.  He has lectured at several Chinese universities on U.S.-China relations and assisted China in complying with the conditions established by the United States for China’s admission into the World Trade Organization.

• Chapter 1- Introduction:  The Strategic Choices Facing Canada in Defining its Relationship with China.- Chapter 2 - International Relations Theory and Canada’s Response to the US-China Strategic Rivalry.- Chapter 3- Re-inventing Canada’s Middle Power Identity: Practicing Pragmatic Realism in an Era of US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 4 - Realism Redux: Canada’s Geostrategic Choices in an Era of Great-power Rivalry.- Chapter 5- Canada’s Response to China’s Rise, 2015-2023:  Analysis of Ottawa’s Internal Policy Making.- Chapter 6- Canada Carves Out a Unique Role for Itself While Aligning with the United States and its Like-Minded Allies and Partners.- Chapter 7 - Unable to Resist--Unwilling to Take Risks: Canada in the Vice of Sino-American Rivalry.- Chapter 8 - The Polar Silk Road: Canadian Content in Sino-American Relations.- Chapter 9 - Conclusion.