National Images and United States-Canada Relations

Stephen Brooks is a professor at the University of Windsor, Canada. His research focuses on Canadian politics, American politics, and American foreign policy. His publications include As Others See Us: The Causes and Consequences of Foreign Perceptions of America (University of Toronto Press, 2006), American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama (Routledge, 2013), and Anti-Americanism and the Limits of Public Diplomacy: Winning Hearts and Minds (Routledge, 2016).

• Chapter 1 Images of the Other and International RelationsIntroduction: Imagining the OtherWhen and How Do Images of the Other Matter?Borderlands: Does Physical Contiguity Make a Difference?National Images and United States-Canada RelationsChapter 2 America: A Canadian ObsessionIntroductionEarly Perceptions: Anti-American Elites and an Unconvinced PublicThe Rebellions of 1837-1838: Rejection of the American Model?Fears of AnnexationCanadian Ambivalence toward AmericaThe “New” Canadian NationalismMulticulturalism as a Marker of Difference (and Superiority!)Old Cultural Tropes Die HardAmerican Decline, the Rise of Trumpism, and Canadians’ Image of AmericaConclusionChapter 3 Canada: From Existential Threat to the Unknown Country IntroductionThe Threat from the NorthThe Early American Image of les Canadiens and the Canadian PeopleCanada as a Refuge from InjusticeReciprocity and AnnexationThe Friendly Neighbor Next DoorThe Popular Image of Canada: Public Opinion and the MediaCanada in America’s Culture WarsConclusionChapter 4 A Story of Asymmetry: The Policy Consequences of National ImagesIntroductionEconomicsSecurity and Defense Communications and CultureThe One-Way MirrorThe Modern Era in United States-Canada RelationsCultural Nationalism in CanadaEconomic Nationalism in CanadaUnited States-Canada Free Trade, 1989The Decision to Go to War in Iraq, 2003National Images Matter… within LimitsReferencesIndex