{"id":1661,"date":"2014-09-05T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?post_type=cu-people&p=1661"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:18:28","slug":"stephen-azzi","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/people\/stephen-azzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Azzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Azzi is one of the original core faculty members of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management. Previously, he worked as aide to four members of Parliament. In the Department of National Defence, he served as speechwriter for the minister, as policy analyst on Canada\u2019s international policy review, and as intelligence officer responsible for analyzing Islamist terrorism in Asia. From 2005 to 2011, he was associate professor at Laurentian University, where he taught US history and foreign policy. At Carleton, he has taught in the Political Management program, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, the School of Canadian Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Journalism and Communication. He is a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Professor Azzi\u2019s research focuses on prime ministerial leadership in Canada, Canada\u2013US relations, and Canadian economic and cultural nationalism. Professor Azzi is accepting graduate students in history; please contact him to inquire about specific areas of supervision.<\/p>\n

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Statecraft: Canadian Prime Ministers and Their Cabinets<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. 520 pp. (co-edited with Patrice Dutil)<\/p>\n

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H<\/em>istorical Dictionary of Canada<\/em>. 3rd ed. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 724 pp. (co-authored with Barry Gough)<\/p>\n

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Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada\u2013US Relations<\/em>. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2015. 312 pp.<\/p>\n

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Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism<\/em>. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 1999. 328 pp.<\/p>\n

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Articles and Book Chapters<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cThe Paradoxical United States in English Canada\u2019s 1968.\u201d The Global Sixties <\/em>(2025): 1\u201321.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity.\u201d Chapter 9 in\u00a0<\/span>North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945\u201360<\/i>, edited by Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023. Pp. 235\u2013258.<\/p>\n

The Thwarted Ambitions of Paul Martin.\u201d Chapter 13 in\u00a0Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats: Canada\u2019s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy<\/i>, edited by Patrice Dutil. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023. Pp. 304\u2013330.<\/p>\n

“Prime Minister Lester Pearson: A Leadership Biography.\u201d Chapter 5 in People, Politics, and Purpose: Biography and Canadian Political History<\/em>, edited by Greg Donaghy and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023. Pp. 132\u2013158.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidents and the Polls, 1963\u20132021: An Inquiry into Canadian Anti-Americanism.\u201d\u00a0American Review of Canadian Studies\u00a0<\/em>52, no. 4 (winter 2022): 381\u2013401.\u00a0(with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Right Honourable Jeanne Sauv\u00e9.\u201d Chapter 23 in\u00a0The Governors General of Canada, <\/em>2nd ed., edited by Jean Chevrier et al. Montreal: New Federation House, 2022. Pp. 87\u201390.\u00a0\u00a0Translated\u00a0as \u201cLa tr\u00e8s honorable Jeanne Sauv\u00e9.\u201d\u00a0Chapter 23 in\u00a0Les Gouverneurs G\u00e9n\u00e9raux<\/em> du Canada, 2nd ed., edited by Jean Chevrier et al. Montreal: Maison nouvelle f\u00e9d\u00e9ration, 2022. Pp. 87\u201390.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence.\u201d Chapter 4 in\u00a01968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies<\/i>, edited by Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, and Christopher Kirkey. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of History and University of Ottawa Press, 2021. Pp. 71\u201394.<\/p>\n

\u201cRanking Prime Ministers: Canada in a Commonwealth Context.\u201d Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/em> 49, no. 1 (February 2021): 22\u201343. (with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n

\u201cMinority Governments and Canada\u2019s Confused Foreign Investment Policy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>International Journal<\/i>\u00a075, no. 4 (December 2020): 502\u2013515.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Predominant Prime Minister: St-Laurent and His Cabinet.\u201d Chapter 3 in The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent: Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada<\/em>, edited by Patrice Dutil. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020. Pp. 72\u201388.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Problem Child: Diefenbaker and Canada in the Language of the Kennedy Administration.\u201d Chapter 5 in\u00a0Reassessing the Rogue Tory: Canadian Foreign Relations in the Diefenbaker Era<\/em>, edited by Janice Cavell and Ryan M. Touhey. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 103\u2013120.<\/p>\n

“Political Time in a Westminster Democracy: The Canadian Case.” American Review of Canadian Studies <\/i>47, no. 2 (June 2017): 19-34<\/p>\n

“Lester Pearson and the Substance of the Sixties.” Chapter 5 in Mike’s World: Lester B. Pearson and Canadian External Affairs<\/i>, edited by Asa McKercher and Galen Perras. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Pp. 107-129.<\/p>\n

“Intolerant Allies: Canada and the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2005.” Diplomacy and Statecraft <\/i>27, no. 4 (December 2016): 726-745. (with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Honourable Kathleen O\u2019Day Wynne.\u201d In The Premiers of Ontario<\/em>, edited by Jean Chevrier. Ottawa: New Federation House, 2016. Pp. 97\u2013100.<\/p>\n

\u201cForeign Investment and the Paradox of Economic Nationalism.\u201d In Modern Canada, 1945 to Present<\/em>, edited by Catherine Briggs. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 244-257.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvaluating Prime Ministerial Leadership in Canada: The Results of an Expert Survey.\u201d Canadian Political Science Review<\/em> 7, no. 1 (2013): 13-23. (with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvaluating Prime-Ministerial Performance: The Canadian Experience.\u201d Chapter 11 in Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives<\/em>, edited by Paul Strangio, Paul \u2019t Hart, and James Walter. London: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 242-263. (with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nationalist Moment in English Canada.\u201d Chapter 11 in Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties<\/em>, edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Cl\u00e9ment, and Gregory S. Kealey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. 213-228, 327-332.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Strange Afterlives of Canadian Prime Ministers.\u201d Chapter 4 in Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets<\/em>, edited by Kevin Theakston and Jouke de Vries. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 54-77.<\/p>\n

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