Assesses the early success against the 2012 termination of the Canadian government's Understanding Canada program
Evaluates the implications of the program for Canadian Studies in key research centres abroad

Discusses the role of government support of cultural goals, and its broader implications beyond the Canadian context

Autorentext
Stephen Brooks is Professor of Political Science at University of Windsor, Canada, and Occasional Lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, France.

Inhalt

1. Uncertain Embrace: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Studies Abroad as a Tool of Foreign Policy.- 2. Getting on the American Radar Screen: The Growth, Achievements and Limitations of Canadian Studies in the United States.- 3. Down But Not Out: British Academics Resolutely Determined to Explore Canada.- 4. Canadian Studies in France.- 5. Canadian Studies in China: Dividends from a Near-forgotten Age of Hope and Opening.- 6. Canadian Studies in Japan.- 7. Canadian Studies in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia.- 8. From Individual Scholarship to Academic Institution: Canadian Studies in the German-Speaking Countries and Cultural Diplomacy.- 9. Canadian Studies in the Nordic Countries.- 10. Lessons Learned.