Review: Canada among Nations 2008 <i>100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy</i>
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Abstract
CANADA AMONG NATIONS 200 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy Robert Bothwell and Jean Daudelin, editors Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. 4????, $29.95 paper ISBN 978-0773534384Since 1984 the Canada Among Nations series has established itself as a central and indispensible source for research and analysis on Canada's international policy. Over the years, through numerous editorial teams and several publishers, the series, produced by and for the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University, has been remarkably consistent in fulfilling its central mission: to provide an annual survey of key events and themes in foreign policy.The volume for is a departure for this series: co-edited by Robert Bothwell, a preeminent historian of Canada's international relations, and Jean Daudelin, a political scientist at NPSIA, it is devoted to marking the 100th anniversary of the Department of External Affairs (since 1993, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade).To be sure, using the volume of Canada Among Nations to celebrate an event that occurred in 2009 may end up causing a little confusion to the incognescenti, who will not necessarily make the connection that each volume of Canada Among Nations generally appears in the year after the one to which it is devoted. (Certainly the McGill-Queen's University Press staff person who wrote the blurb for the back cover took the title literally: as a result, the back cover declares that 2008 marked the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Department of External Affairs.)But departing from the usual structure of Canada Among Nations to mark this anniversary is welcome given that the Department of External Affairs is truly an institution of national importance. (In the interests of full disclosure, Greg Donaghy, head of the historical section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and I have just co-edited a collection of essays that also marks External's iooth birthday. It should be noted that Both well contributed a chapter to our collection and that Donaghy was one of the contributors to the Bothwell/Daudelin collection.)Canada Among Nations is also a departure in another way: for the first time, a volume sought to gather together a series of expressly historical essays on Canadian foreign policy, looking, just as the subtitle suggests, at the last century rather than a single year. Indeed, never has a volume in this series featured so many historians and historically minded political scientists.The result is a very special collection. The Canada Among Nations series has always been the premier reference source on Canada's international policies for particular years; this volume will be a reference of a broader sort, since it provides readers with a comprehensive historical perspective on the evolution of different aspects of Canadian foreign policy.Bothwell leads off with an excellent historical reflection on the importance of independence in Canadian thought and practice over the course ofthe 20th century. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".