ABSTRACT
The preferred course of action has thus been to facilitate, and to temper, the management of the bilateral relationship by submerging at least some of the issues that bear upon it within a multilateral context. The Canadians insisted on describing it, however, not as a mechanism for bilateral military management, but as a component of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The diversification strategy is not unrelated to multilateralism, in the sense that multilateral institutions were often perceived as one of the vehicles through which the strategy could be pursued. It is certainly possible to discern in the post–war period a number of practices that have been persistently evident in the daily management of the Canada–U.S. relationship. The success of such strategies depends not only on the cooperation of third parties including other governments, nongovernmental organizations and private sector enterprises. The principal manifestation of fundamental change in the management of the Canada–U.S. relations.
