Stephen Harper’s Conservative Values on the World Stage, 2006–2015
Year: 2024

Abstract This chapter examines the foreign policy of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It contrasts the Harper government’s approach to world affairs with the approach of previous Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments. It covers values-based foreign policy, the extension of the Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan, military interventions in Libya and northern Iraq and Syria, the government’s approach to the Arctic, Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, the governmen