Make Geo-Economics Great Again
The literature on Canada-us relations neglects works on geo-economics to understand Donald Trump’s unpopularity in Canada during his term in the White House. Defining geo-economics as the importation of the logic of military conflict into the vocabulary and implementation of a state’s economic and trade policies (Luttwak 1990), we draw on the work on “tabloid geopolitics” by François Debrix (2008) to characterize Trump’s policy towards Canada as “tabloid geo-economics.” After describing the main pillars of this doctrine, including Trump’s tendency to use the language and style of tabloid newspapers to describe Canada-us issues, we show how the billionaire transforms Canada-us relations by importing into the White House a vision of Canada that may not disappear entirely after he steps down as President.