"Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes...

Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that...

Defending the national interest -- US commercial and monetary policy : unravelling the paradox of external strength and internal weakness -- Approaches to the state : alternative conceptions and historical dynamics -- Sovereignty : an institutional perspective -- Structural causes and regime...