The Strategic Constitution: Understanding Canadian Power in the World
Irvin Studin
Historically, Canada’s Constitution has been principally viewed as a federal framework or a rights bulwark. This book offers a brand new interpretation. The “Strategic Constitution,” as proposed by Irvin Studin, can be a framework for Canada to project strategic power in the world. This framework lays the foundations for a new school of Canadian constitutional scholarship.
Studin begins by reducing the Constitution to its strategically relevant essentials or building blocks. He then provides a wide-ranging audit of the Constitution in terms of its implications for so-called factors of strategic power: the military, diplomacy, executive potency, natural resources, the economy, strategic communications, ... Read more
Provocative and well-argued, this book makes the case for the Constitution being a highly flexible national framework that quietly harbours seeds of national strategic potency.
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