School of Journalism and Communication instructor Mike Blanchfield, a graduate of both the School’s undergraduate (BJ/87) and graduate (MJ/15) journalism programs, has launched a book about Canadian foreign policy based on his Master’s thesis.
The book, Swingback: Getting Along in the World With Harper and Trudeau, was officially launched at a reception Wednesday in downtown Ottawa. The McGill-Queen’s University Press publication explores how the Stephen Harper-led Conservative governments between 2006 and 2015 pursued a foreign policy that steered Canada away from many of its traditional approaches and policies — on multilateralism, on the United Nations, on the Middle East — before the 2015 election of the Justin Trudeau-led Liberal government began a pendulum “swingback” to more familiar Canadian positions on the world stage.
Blanchfield, a senior Parliamentary reporter with the Canadian Press, has covered international affairs and a wide range of other subjects during a 30-year career as a reporter with the Ottawa Citizen and CP. He recently discussed his new book during an interview aired on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning.
Carleton professor Fen Hampson, a foreign policy expert with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, has described Swingback as “a benchmark for future work by historians and students of Canadian politics.”
Friday, March 10, 2017 in Journalism News, News
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