Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribution to the creation of the United Nations in the mid-1940s, while David Haglund and Stephane Roussel examine Reid's crucial role in the negotiations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greg Donaghy, Bruce Muirhead, and Alyson King write, respectively, about Reid as high commissioner to India, as an important influence on World Bank policy in the early 1960s, and, finally, as founding principal of York University's Glendon...
Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribu...
Canada's early participation in the Asia-Pacific region was hindered by ?contradictory impulses.? For over half a century, racist restrictions curtailed immigration from Japan, even as Canadian entrepreneurs, missionaries, and diplomats manoeuvred for access to the Orient. Since then, Canada's relations with Japan have changed profoundly, and the two countries' political, economic, and diplomatic interests are now more closely aligned and wrapped up in a web of reinforcing cultural and social ties.
Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive and richly documented study of the...
Canada's early participation in the Asia-Pacific region was hindered by ?contradictory impulses.? For over half a century, racist restrictions curt...
Building the Department of Foreign and International Trade, 1909-2009/le developpement du ministere des Affaires etrangeres et du Commerce international, 1909-2009
Building the Department of Foreign and International Trade, 1909-2009/le developpement du ministere des Affaires etrangeres et du Commerce internation...
Building the Department of Foreign and International Trade, 1909-2009/le developpement du ministere des Affaires etrangeres et du Commerce international, 1909-2009
Building the Department of Foreign and International Trade, 1909-2009/le developpement du ministere des Affaires etrangeres et du Commerce internation...
Cutting a broad swath through the history of twentieth-century Canada, Greg Donaghy uses extensive interviews and untapped archival sources to challenge the prevailing view of Martin as simply an ambitious Windsor ward heeler and party operator. Rather, Donaghy shows that Martin drew from the liberalism of John stuart Mill and the contemporary social teachings of his Catholic Church and its key thinkers to fashion a reformist politics that defended the individual against both unbridled capitalism and the authoritarian state .
Cutting a broad swath through the history of twentieth-century Canada, Greg Donaghy uses extensive interviews and untapped archival sources to challen...
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, and Afghanistan underlines the commitment of successive Canadian governments to addressing the threats posed to Western security by state fragility.
From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canada and Fragile States in...
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They a...
