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Despite the fact that both Canada and the United States are North American countries, neither state has whole-heartedly embraced the ‘North’ as the key, defining element of its national identity or foreign policy. The United States as a trend-setting, global power has been hesitant to constrain its image or interests to any geographical reference point. Canada, in recent years, has done more to address elements of the ‘northerners’ of its national character and approach to foreign relations, but it has done so tentatively and without a lasting sense of commitment. As more than one observer has noted, Canada has discovered its own northern dimension rather belatedly and without great enthusiasm. The United States, for its part, has yet to discover it.
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Nord, D.C. (2003). Northern Foreign Policies: Tensions Between Canadian and American Visions — Past and Present. In: Hedegaard, L., Lindström, B., Joenniemi, P., Eskelinen, H., Peschel, K., Stålvant, CE. (eds) The NEBI Yearbook 2003. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59341-3_19
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