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Canada must prepare for an isolationist and unpredictable neighbour to the South should a MAGA leader gain the White House in 2025. The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. But while Canadians have been paying attention to the re-emergence of great power competition, they assume that Americans will continue to provide global leadership in the West. Canada Alone sketches a more dystopian future: we are likely to see the illiberal, anti-democratic, and authoritarian Make America Great Again movement regain power and dominate American politics in the 2020s. This will have profound foreign policy consequences: if a MAGA Republican — either Donald J. Trump himself or a Trumpian candidate — becomes president in 2025, the West will likely fracture under the twin stresses of a re-invigorated America First policy and the purposeful abandonment of American global leadership. This would leave Canadians, for the first time in their history, all alone in North America with an increasingly dysfunctional United States. Canada Alone outlines what Canadians will need to navigate this deeply unfamiliar post-American world.

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With this provocative and important book, Kim Nossal has begun an essential debate. * John English, co-chair, Canadian International Council, and founding director, Bill Graham Centre * Nossal’s thoughtful book is a wake-up call for Canadians, who must prepare to confront an illiberal and inward-looking neighbour. * Kenneth Holland, former president, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States * A concise, compelling, and very concerning analysis of the challenges that Canada — and the West as a whole — face from the ongoing Trumpian crisis in American politics. * Hugh White, emeritus professor of strategic studies, Australian National University * Kim Nossal delivers a dystopian vision of a world that might have already begun. Nossal’s book is also a fun, rollicking read. He compiles the best of mainstream media and academic analysis and throws in surprisingly colourful adjectives about the Trump Presidency. * Kerry Buck, former Canadian ambassador to NATO * This book surveys the state of global affairs in early 2023 and makes informed predictions. Recommended for all political science and global studies collections. * Library Journal * Nossal sketches a dark vision of the world we face if American global leadership continues. * Quill & Quire *

With this provocative and important book, Kim Nossal has begun an essential debate. * John English, co-chair, Canadian International Council, and founding director, Bill Graham Centre * Nossal’s thoughtful book is a wake-up call for Canadians, who must prepare to confront an illiberal and inward-looking neighbour. * Kenneth Holland, former president, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States * A concise, compelling, and very concerning analysis of the challenges that Canada — and the West as a whole — face from the ongoing Trumpian crisis in American politics. * Hugh White, emeritus professor of strategic studies, Australian National University * Kim Nossal delivers a dystopian vision of a world that might have already begun. Nossal’s book is also a fun, rollicking read. He compiles the best of mainstream media and academic analysis and throws in surprisingly colourful adjectives about the Trump Presidency. * Kerry Buck, former Canadian ambassador to NATO *

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Kim Richard Nossal is a professor of political studies at Queen’s University. He is a former editor of International Journal, a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association, and author of a number of works on Canada’s foreign and defence policy. From 2006 to 2012, he was the chair of the academic selection committee of the Security and Defence Forum of the Department of National Defence. Kim lives in Gananoque, Ontario.

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