Two-Edged Sword
Author: Nicholas Tracy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0773540512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the Royal Canadian Navy and its promotion of sovereignty through collective defence.
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Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1954-2009
Author: James G. Fergusson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0774859458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have grappled with the issue of Canada’s role in US ballistic missile defence programs. Until Paul Martin’s government finally said no, policy-makers responded to US initiatives with fear and uncertainty as they endlessly debated the implications – at home and abroad – of participation. However, whether this is the end of the story remains to be seen. Drawing on previously classified government documents and interviews with senior officials, James Fergusson examines Canada’s policy deliberations during five major US initiatives. He reveals that a combination of factors such as weak leadership and a tendency to place uncertain and ill-defined notions of international peace and security before national defence resulted in indecision on what role Canada would play in ballistic missile defence. In effect, policy-makers have failed to transform debates about the issue into an opportunity to define Canada’s strategic interests at home and on the world stage. Canada and Ballistic Missile Defense is the first comprehensive account of Canada’s response and indecision regarding US ballistic missile defence initiatives, and the implications of this inaction.
Dilemmas in Defence Decision-Making
Author: A. Crosby
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-05-13
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0230374026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cold War produced a matrix of Canadian/US extra-governmental military and economic relationships which significantly shaped Canadian political decision-making as it related to the defence of the continent under the auspices of the North American Air/Aerospace Defence Agreement (NORAD). In the post-cold War era, these relationships continue to effectively support a traditional security agenda for the Canadian government. The rewritten NORAD Agreement, signed in March 1996, is the vehicle for Canadian participation in US missile defence programs worldwide. Paying particular attention to the decisions to adopt a nuclear weapons role for Canada's continental air defence forces, to test the US air-lunched cruise missile in the Canadian North, and to become increasingly involved in active missile and space-based defence programs, the author examines: · the Cold War construction of Canadian/US military and economic relationships · the effects of these relationships on political decision-making · the public discourse as a site of alternative understandings of Canada's role in the Cold War. Ann Denholm Crosby provides a challenging analysis of Canadian defence decision-making in both its Cold war and post-Cold War contexts.
A National Force
Author: Peter Kasurak
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0774826428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanadians consider the period between the Second World War and the unification of the armed services in 1968 as a “golden age,” a time when their army dropped the shackles of its imperial past and emerged as a truly national peacekeeping force. In this landmark book, Peter Kasurak draws on recently declassified documents to show that this era was in fact clouded by the army’s failure to loosen the grasp of British army culture, produce its own doctrine, and advise political leaders effectively. The discrepancy between the army’s goals and the Canadian state’s aspirations as a peacemaker in the postwar world resulted in a series of civilian-military crises that ended only when the scandal of the Somalia Affair in 1993 forced reform. Kasurak offers an illuminating account of the organizational growing pains that wracked the Canada’s army as it evolved into a force that could reflect the aspirations of both its country and military leadership.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanada, Scandinavia, and Southern Africa
Author: Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789171061430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSalt Water Neighbors
Author: Ted L McDorman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-02-17
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0199771065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States and Canada are salt water neighbors on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Despite the general closeness of the political, economic and social relationship, the two States have approached their offshore areas from different perspectives. Canada has long supported expansion of exclusive national control over its adjacent offshore; whereas the United States has been concerned with the balance between national authority and international navigation rights. Canada has tended to view maritime disputes with the United States as local matters; whereas the United States has tended to see the disputes with Canada in global terms. Against this background, Salt Water Neighbor's examines both the international ocean law disagreements that exist between the United States and Canada respecting maritime boundaries, fisheries and navigation rights (e.g., the Northwest Passage) and the numerous cooperative bilateral arrangements that have prevented these disputes from being significant causes of friction between the neighbors. There has not been a comprehensive book-length study of United States-Canada international ocean relations since the early 1970s. Much has changed in the last 30 years. Most importantly, the law and the nature of the disputes between the two States have changed as a result of the adoption of 200 nautical mile zones in the late 1970s.
Canada Among Nations, 1990-91
Author: Fen Osler Hampson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1991-05-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0773573704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the seventh volume on Canada in international affairs produced by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University .As in the past, the book is organized around the most recent calendar year and contains an analysis and assessment of Canadian foreign policies as well as the environment that constrains and shapes them. Our intention is to contribute to the continuing debate about appropriate policy choices for Canada.
Aid and Ebb Tide
Author: David R. Morrison
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0889206759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance examines Canada’s mixed record since 1950 in transferring over $50 billion in capital and expertise to developing countries through ODA. It focuses in particular on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the organization chiefly responsible for delivering Canada’s development assistance. Aid and Ebb Tide calls for a renewed and reformed Canadian commitment to development co-operation at a time when the gap between the world’s richest and poorest has been widening alarmingly and millions are still being born into poverty and human insecurity.
Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism
Author: Stephen Azzi
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1999-05-25
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0773567763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism is an examination of the origins of Walter Gordon's nationalist ideology and its impact on Canada. It traces his ideas from his family influences and the intellectual currents present in his early years to his work as a chartered accountant, public servant, and head of a small conglomerate. Drawing on extensive interviews and impressive research, Azzi provides not only a biography of an important political figure but a significant study of the political and intellectual controversies that Gordon and his ideas created, shedding light on the larger political and economic questions of the postwar era.
