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Chapter 1
Serial Monogamy or Constructive Bigamy
Canada’s Partnership Foreign Policy from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana
Robert Bothwell
When I started this paper, I conceived of Canadian foreign relations as a “serial monogamy”: they centered primarily on the United Kingdom or the British Empire for Canada’s first 170 years (roughly 1776–1946) and on the United States thereafter. It was a matter of successive affection, and it turned—a primly realist argument might suggest—on power, or more prosaically, on which country was top nation. This interpretation fits easily into Charles Doran’s political-strategic category