Canada- a 'Global" Middle Power

Middle powers are said to be those states occupying the middle point in a range of bigness to smallness- usually measured by quantifiable attributes as area, population, size, complexity and strength of economy, military capability, and other comparable factors (Cooper, 1993). Canada is a middle power, as defined by the preceding quotation, but to a greater extent as well. But it wasn't always this way. After World War I, Canada adopted an autonomous, quite isolationist stance …

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