Asymmetric Interdependence With The Cuban Missile Crisis Before And After The Canada-us Military Alliance,

There has been a heated debate between neorealism and neoliberalism in the Western circle of international relations theory. The terms of ower Politics and nterdependence are often used to respectively describe the essential features of the postwar international relations. The overall postwar Canada-US relations are regarded by the neoliberalists as a typical case to illustrate the behavioral characteristics of the interdependent relationship. This article also makes observations on the postwar Canada-US relations by referring to two cases he Nuclear Weapons Crisis and the Cuba Missile Crisis, thus approaching the subject from a different direction anada-US military alliances o as to cut into the reality of asymmetrical interdependence. The purpose of this article that is entitled symmetrical Interdependence and Canada- US Military Alliances During the Cuba Missile Crisis is to see if the viewpoint of the neoliberalists is applicable to describing the actual situation of the Canada-US relations by examining the Canada-US military alliances from the end of World War II to the sixties. The article can be divided into six parts besides preface and conclusion, namely: 1.Keohane and Nye explanation of the postwar Canada-US relations; 2.the history of Canada-US military alliances; 3.closely following US foreign policy in the Cold War anada foreign policy in St. Laurent years; 4.shaking off the control from US anada foreign policy in Diefenbaker years and the Nuclear Weapons Crisis and the Cuba Missile Crisis; 5.persisting in theNorth American Continentism djustment in Canada foreign policy in Pearson years; 6.identifying issues and outcomes Canada-US relations and complex interdependence. My conclusion is as follows: using complex interdependence assumptions to summarize the overall postwar Canada-US relations doesn correspond to the reality of the international relations at that time; realism is more appropriate to explaining the Canada-US asymmetrical military interdependence in the 1950 and 1960 during the Cold War. However a general conclusion should not be drawn from this case which is not inclusive, and it is inadequate to apply the case to the whole politics of Canada-US relations.