ABSTRACT

The application of systemism, an innovative and user-friendly technique for generating lucid, graphic summaries of analytical arguments, can enhance the study of Canadian foreign policy. As research and pedagogy on Canada and international relations move forward, its content becomes increasingly vast and intellectually diverse. Systemism offers both a means and a method toward enhanced communication in the face of challenges posed by the rapid expansion of topics and the proliferation of new theories and terminology in the fast-paced world of the new millennium. This is the motivation for a special issue of CFPJ that will show systemism in action across a wide range of issues and locations. This introductory article will proceed in four sections. The first section provides an overview of the project as a whole. Section two introduces systemism as a graphic approach toward the communication of ideas. The third section applies systemism to convey the framework for analysis from the standard textbook in the field – The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy (Nossal, K. R., Roussel, S., & Paquin, S. The politics of Canadian Foreign Policy. Queen’s policy studies series (4th ed.). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). Section four outlines the articles that follow in making up the special issue.

摘要

系统主义是一种创新且用户友好的技术，用于生成清晰、图形化的分析论据摘要，可以加强对加拿大外交政策的研究。随着有关加拿大和国际关系的研究和教学法的发展，其内容变得越来越广泛，而且在知识上也越来越多样化。在新千年的快节奏世界中，面对话题的迅速扩展以及新理论和术语的激增所带来的挑战，系统主义提供了一种增强交流的手段和方法。这就是CFPJ特刊的动机这将显示系统主义在广泛的问题和地点的行动中。这篇介绍性文章将分为四个部分。第一部分概述了整个项目。第二部分介绍了系统主义，作为交流思想的一种图形方法。第三部分应用系统主义来传达该领域标准教科书的分析框架 -加拿大外交政策的政治（Nossal，KR，Roussel，S.，＆Paquin，S 。加拿大外交政策的政治。女王的政策研究系列（第 4 版）。蒙特利尔：麦吉尔女王大学出版社，2015 年）。第四部分概述了组成特刊的后续文章。