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The article discusses and examines both the historiography and history of Canadian foreign policy, the interest in the field, and overall growth in writing. The author poses the question regarding self-containment of the field, one in English, and two, by the second solution through the French co-contemporaries. Then the author discusses key scholars in the Canadian foreign policy field today (see Table 1) and introduce each of the ten authors, providing a mini-abstract of each featured book, which are: R.A. Mackay and E.B. Rogers, 'Canada Looks Abroad' (1938); James Eayrs, 'The Art of the Possible: Government and Foreign Policy in Canada' (1963); Stephen Clarkson, Ed., 'An Independent Foreign Policy For Canada?' (1968); John Holmes, 'The Better Part of Valour: Essays on Canadian Diplomacy' (1970); Bruce Thordarson, 'Trudeau: A Study in Decisionmaking' (1972); Denis Stairs, 'The Diplomacy of Constraint: Canada, the Korean War and the United States' (1974); Peyton and Brian Tomlin, 'Canada as an International Actor' (1979); Charles Doran, 'Forgotten Partnership: US-Canada Relations Today' (1984); Andrew Fenton Cooper, Richard Higgott, and Kim Richard Nossal, 'Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order' (1993); and finally, Kim Richard Nossal, Stephane Roussel, and Stephane Pacquin, 'Politique Internationale et Defense au Canada et au Quebec' (2007). Adapted from the source document.

Successful Ageing A Survey of the Most Important Theories
The issues of good and successful ageing are the subject of scientific research. Successful ageing is the attempt to achieve a state of inner satisfaction and happiness in spite of the negative effects associated with old age: loss, external and internal destabilization, etc. Successful development in old age has many forms. It can generally be defined as an attempt to achieve the greatest profit with the smallest loss. The problem is establishing the universal criteria of successful ageing. It is possible to restrict the study to the observation of individual factors which are either objective or subjective, long-term or short-term, specific or universal or static versus dynamic. The problem is creating a theory that will explain all the processes and consequences of old age—none of the theories has so far succeeded in doing this. Life satisfaction as a subjective criterion of successful ageing has been most emphasized in two contradictory theories: activity theory and disengagement theory. Other theories are: growth theories, cognitive theories, dynamic theories, SOC model, cultural anthropological theories, the interaction model of longevity, etc.

The article begins by reconstructing the just distribution of the social bases of self-respect, a principle of justice that is covert in Rawls's writing. I argue that, for Rawls, justice mandates that each social basis for self-respect be equalized (and, as a second priority, maximized). Curiously, for Rawls, that principle ranks higher than Rawls's two more famous principles of justice - equal liberty and the difference principle. I then recall Rawls's well-known confusion between self-respect and another form of self-appraisal, namely, confidence in one's determinate plans and capacities. Correcting that confusion forces Rawls to accept objectionable and illiberal politics. Surprisingly, a consistent Rawls must endorse absolute economic equality, deny liberty any priority whatsoever, or sponsor still other illiberal political views - evidence of a flaw in the ethical basis of Rawls's politics.

This book emphasizes that Nietzsche was still working on an unfinished manuscript until the last weeks before his collapse. It is unlikely that he would have returned to and continued Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but he considered publishing the fourth part (which had not yet been published) as a bridge between Zarathustra and the unfinished Revaluation of All Values. More importantly, during his last years he worked hard on revaluing values, often in line with what he had written in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This present study performs detailed analyses of Nietzsches texts and late notes to examine the direction of that unfinished work; it will function as a stimulus to further research on the direction, interpretation and consequences of Nietzsches late thought. Thomas Brobjer is a professor in the Department of the History of Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has written several books on Nietzsche: Nietzsches Ethics of Character (1995), Nietzsche and the 'English': The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy (2008), Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography (2008) and Nietzsches Ecce Homo and the Revaluation of All Values (2021). He has also written a large number of articles on different aspects of Nietzsches thought and on his influences, especially emphasizing Nietzsches reading and his library. Together with Gregory Moore he has edited the book Nietzsche and Science (2004). He is at present working on different aspects of the late Nietzsches thought