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The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations (review)

Partisanship, fragmentation, and gridlock are common descriptors of the current domestic policymaking landscape in Washington, DC; readers of Brian Bow’s admirable study will find that these circumstances are not new, nor are their effects contained within American borders. The Politics of Linkage provides a survey of some of the more fractious episodes in Canada-United States relations since the Second World War, and concludes that a once-productive relationship built on shared norms, personal relationships, and “quiet diplomacy” has in recent decades been subverted by the disintegration, primarily on the American side of the border, of the diplomatic culture that marked the first years of the Cold War.