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Irvin Studin - The Strategic Constitution: Understanding Canadian Power in the World - 9780774827140 - V9780774827140
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The Strategic Constitution: Understanding Canadian Power in the World

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Description for The Strategic Constitution: Understanding Canadian Power in the World Hardback. Bridging the solitudes of constitutional law and international relations, this book offers a brand new interpretation of Canada's Constitution. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JPS; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1089.

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774827140
SKU
V9780774827140
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About Irvin Studin
Irvin Studin is MPP program director and an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He worked for a number of years in the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, as well as in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. He is also editor-in-chief and publisher of Global ... Read more

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