AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Ideas and Antecedents Chapter 2: William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Evolution of Canada's Global Posture, 1935-1948 Case Studies: The Voyage of the MS St Louis, 1939 The Hyde Park Declaration, 1941 The Debate over Article 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949 Granting the Great Powers a Veto in the United Nations Organization, 1945Chapter 3: Louis St. Laurent and the Expansion of the Canadian Foreign Policy Realm, 1948-1957 Case Studies: The Launch of the Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia, 1950-1951 The Establishment of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, 1953-1957 The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 Attending the 10th Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States (OAS) as an Observer, 1952-1954Chapter 4: John Diefenbaker and the Politics of Foreign Policy Decision-making, 1957-1963 Case Studies: The Establishment of the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), 1957-1958 South Africa's Withdrawal from the Commonwealth, 1960-1961 Negotiations to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, 1957-1963 Responding to the White House's Decision to Move American NORAD forces to Defence Condition (DEFCON) 3 without Consulting Ottawa during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Chapter 5: Lester B. Pearson and the Domestic Implications of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1963-1968 Case Studies: The Promulgation of the Gérin-Lajoie Doctrine, 1965 Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Speech at Temple University, 1965 Managing the Impact of Split-run Magazines in Canada, 1964-1965Chapter 6: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the Re-imagination of "Canada First," 1968-1984 Case Studies: Reconsidering Canada's Military Role in NATO, 1968-1969 The Voyages of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage, 1968-1970 Joe Clark's Proposal to Move the Canadian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, 1979-1980 The National Energy Program, 1980-1984 Recognizing the People's Republic of China (PRC), 1968-1970Chapter 7: Brian Mulroney and the Transformation of Canadian International Affairs, 1984-1993 Case Studies: Responding to Famine in Ethiopia, 1984-1986 The Origins of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, 1983-1989 Negotiating the Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement, 1991 Responding to Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, 1990-1991Chapter 8: Jean Chrétien, Frugality, and Boldness, 1993-2001 Case Studies: The Turbot War, 1994-1995 The International Campaign to Ban Anti-personnel Landmines, 1994-1997 NATO's Military Intervention in Kosovo, 1998-1999 Conflict Diamonds in Angola and UN Security Council Sanctions Reform, 1999-2000Chapter 9: Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, and the Aftermath of 9/11, 2000-2006 Case Studies: The Kyoto Protocol, 1997-2002 Canada's Response to the American Decision to Invade Iraq, 2002-2003 Deploying to Kandahar Province, 2003-2005 Participating in the United States Ballistic Missile Defense Program, 2003-2006Chapter 10: Stephen Harper's Conservative Values on the World Stage, 2006-2015 Case Studies: Affirming Support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), 2007-2010 The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, 2009-2010 Canada's Response to the Euromaidan, 2013-2015 Creating the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development, 2013Chapter 11: Justin Trudeau and an Increasingly Dangerous World, 2015- Case Studies: Selling Light Armoured Vehicles to Saudi Arabia, 2015-2019 Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, 2017-2018 China's Arbitrary Imprisonment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, 2018-2021 Responding to a Dramatic Increase in Irregular Migration, 2017-2020Conclusion: Canada First in the FutureNotes Index.