This book examines Canada Among Nations over the last year and projects forward into the year 2022. 2021 was a year of challenges for Canada and a watershed in its engagement with the global political economy. Beset by a pandemic, hemmed-in by an America-first administration in Washington and punitive recrimination from a Chinese government with global ambitions, the shrinking horizons of a foreign economic policy premised on liberal internationalism and multilateral institutionalism have sapped Canada's global ambitions.

Part-1: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Introduction: No Middle Place In a Tight Space.- Chapter 2: The Crisis in Sino-Canadian Relations: How Middle-Power Dissolves.- Chapter 3: Canada's Strategic Dilemma: The United States, China, and the World.- Chapter 4: Grey Zone Conflict: The Political and Economic Consequences of Geopolitical Rivalry.- Chapter 5: Lessons drawn from managing Canada-China agricultural trade and Canada-Cuba relations.- Chapter 6: Canada-US economic relations and the Green New deal- Canada-U.S. relations within a decarbonizing North America.- Part 2: The Political Economy of Canada's Place in the World.- Chapter 7: Canadian trade and investment policy: Path dependency, adaptation, and the decline of the rules based international order.- Chapter 8: Canada and the Global Knowledge Economy: Between Knowledge Feudalism and Digital Economic Nationalism.- Chapter 9: Canada's Changing Foreign Investment Regime in a time of Global Crisis and Transition.- Chapter 10: International Financial Institutions.- Chapter 11: Canada's Feminist Trade Policy.- Part 3: The Path Ahead in a World of Rivals.- Chapter 12: Risk Governance as a Guide to Canadian Policy Responses to a Global Health Emergency.- Chapter 13: Canada as an Energy Middle Power: Some Implications for the Energy-Environment Policy Nexus.- Chapter 14: Trade and Culture: Rival Nations and Rival Socioeconomic Objectives.- Chapter 15: Canada in the World of Development Finance: No Middle Place in a Tight Space Sculpted by Big Infrastructure.- Conclusion.