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Arctic foreign policy, in relation to Canadian foreign policy overall, has not been unlike the relationship of the Arctic to Canadians generally: the subject of polite curiosity, but peripheral. Throughout the twentieth century it was viewed mostly as an exposed flank, as a place where the Canadian government’s hold was more tenuous than desired. It was only in 2000 that Canada first put forward a dedicated Arctic foreign policy to promote its interests at home and abroad—where the Arctic region became a subject rather than a mere object of Canadian foreign policy.
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Exner-Pirot, H. (2021). Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy. In: Murray, R.W., Gecelovsky, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs. Canada and International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67770-1_20
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