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Greatness and Decline sheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was, and still is, a matter of habit, Srdjan Vucetic takes a closer look at the period between Clement Attlee's "New Jerusalem" and Tony Blair's New Labour.

What is the Anglosphere? -- Empire, Venezuela and the "great rapprochement" -- ANZUS, Britain and the "Pacific pact" -- Suez, Vietnam and the "great and powerful friends" -- Empire, Iraq and the "coalition of the willing" -- The Anglosphere identity and its limit

Whatever their inherent shortcomings, self-narratives are a usable method for producing sociologies of knowledge. Focusing on my undergraduate and graduate student days, I look back at my socialization into the field of Canadian Foreign Policy. I then proceed to offer some thoughts about the future of the field.

"Identity and Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

How did the Canadian news media cover the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter purchase, proposed by the Harper government in mid-2010? Under what conditions did the media tend to index government talking points as opposed to providing space to oppositional voices and viewpoints? Content analysis of headlines and full text transcripts in five mainstream newspapers revealed news coverage that was mostly negative and that it became more negative as consensus within official decision circles dissipated. Overall, the findings fit most closely with the predictions of the cascading activation model of government–media relations, while also underscoring the importance of factors specific to the Canadian context.