Dilemmas In Defence Decision Making (Macmillan International Political Economy)

This volume examines the construction of the political, material and ideological relations which constituted the Cold War and shaped Canadian political decision-making as it related to the defence of North America under the auspices of NORAD (North American Air/Aerospace Defence Agreement). The author examines the construction of those relationships, their determining effects on political decision-making, and the public discourse on the issues, and argues that, as forces of status-quo decision-making during the Cold War, the matrix of relationships continues to support a traditional agenda for the Canadian government in the post-Cold War era.