Assignment:
Research Essay
You will be expected to write a mid-length (6-7 pages double-spaced, regular font size, 1500-1800 words) paper using course materials and some independent research.
The Country That I Chose To Do Is Afghanistan
Studies of Canadian foreign policy often begin from the assumption that Canada is a well-intentioned participant in international affairs, developing its policies by balancing its own needs with a reasonable consideration of the needs of others. From this standpoint, Canada might succeed or fail at effectively balancing those interests, but Canada's fundamentally good intentions are never questioned.
But what if this assumption is flawed? What if the goals of the Canadian state are not so benevolent but, rather, are rooted in the imperatives of the Canadian capitalist project, which began in the French and British colonial occupation of this land? This would require a very different kind of examination of Canadian foreign policy, which would measure not just the outcomes of Canadian policy but also its motivations. This assignment will ask you to conduct just such a study.
You will choose one country and examine it as a case study in Canadian foreign policy and examine that case in light of Canada's colonial roots. While the paper should be focused on the case study in question, the explicit purpose of the paper is to connect the logic of Canada's policy in your case study to the logic of the original colonial project, to see to what extent they are similar.
Attachment:- Afghanistan-Canada Longest War.rar