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About UBC Press Acknowledgments
The Canadian War Museum, Canada’s national museum of military history, has a threefold mandate: to remember, to preserve, and to educate. Studies in Canadian Military History series, published by UBC Press in association with the Canadian War Museum, extends this mandate by presenting the best contemporary scholarship to provide new insights into all aspects of Canadian military history, from earliest times to recent events. The work of a new generation of scholars is especially encouraged and the books employ a variety of approaches – cultural, social, intellectual, economic, political, and comparative – to investigate gaps in the existing historiography. The books in the series feed immediately into future exhibitions, programs, and outreach efforts by the Canadian War Museum.
Military History The Politics of Procurement Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write Pearson’s Peacekeepers Crisis of Conscience Betrayed Clio’s Warriors Renegades Battle Grounds An Officer and a Lady Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers The Soldiers’ General Fighting from Home Commanding Canadians Prisoners of the Home Front The Red Man’s on the Warpath Hometown Horizons A War of Patrols Fight or Pay Not the Slightest Chance Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945 Frigates and Foremasts Avoiding Armageddon Stepping Stones to Nowhere The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy Another Kind of Justice No Place to Run Death So Noble
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Security Studies Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 Alliance and Illusion “Here Is Hell” Securing Borders Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction Collective Insecurity Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy Index of Authors Ordering Information Why Publish with UBC Press?
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MILitary history
The Politics of Procurement
Military Acquisitions in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter Aaron Plamondon
The procurement of military weapons and equipment in Canada has often been controlled by partisan political considerations – not by a clear desire to increase the capability of the military. As a result, Canada has often failed to be effective in the design, production, or even the purchase, of weapons and equipment. The Sea King helicopter is a case in point. The Politics of Procurement outlines the history of failed attempts to replace this helicopter. Officially commissioned in 1975, only to be cancelled (to the tune of $478 million), then re-commissioned again, the new helicopters are still years away.
Aaron Plamondon teaches military history at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College and is a research fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
New December 2009 288 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1714-1 hc $85.00 978-0-7748-1715-8 PB $32.95 (July 2010)
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This book is the first to provide a clear description and analysis of the procurement process in Canada. More than a saga about a poorly executed military acquisition, it is about why the Canadian military has always been under-equipped and often embarrassed on the world stage. It will be of interest to students and practitioners of public policy and political science and a resource for anyone seeking information on defence spending in Canada. Table of Contents
Preface Introduction 1 A Brief History of Procurement in Canada 2 Early Helicopter Operations in Canada 3 The Procurement of the Sea King: Slow But Solid 4 The Sea King in Canada: Time Is the Enemy of Us All 5 The Sea King Replacement and the New Shipborne Aircraft Project 6 The Weaknesses of the NSA: The Optimism of Regional Benefits 7 The 1993 NSA Cancellation: Money for Nothing 8 The 1994 White Paper and the New Statement of Requirement: The Ghost of Procurements Past 9 The Maritime Helicopter Project: Procuring on Eggshells 10 The Cyclone Decision: Caveat Emptor Conclusion Selected Bibliography; Index
Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Military history
Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write
The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916-18 Edited by Y.A. Bennett Kiss the Kids for Dad offer us new insight into the multiple themes and narratives that underpin the First World War experience: the role of the civilian-soldier in war, the horror and brutality of trench warfare, the boredom and banality of military service. Timmins’s letters, framed within a solid historical background, also reveal his personal struggle with having left his family behind to fend for themselves in Canada. – Tim Cook, author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918
Y.A. Bennett is an associate professor of history at Carleton University.
New April 2009 224 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1608-3 hc $85.00 978-0-7748-1609-0 PB $32.95 (January 2010)
Between 1916 and 1918, Lance-Corporal George Timmins, a British-born soldier who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote faithfully to his wife and children. Sixty-three letters and four fragments survived. These letters tell the compelling story of a man who, while helping his fellow Canadians make history at Vimy, Lens, Passchendaele, and Amiens, used letters home to remain a presence in the lives of his wife and children, and who drew strength from his family to appreciate life’s simple pleasures. Timmins’s letters offer a rare glimpse into the experiences and relationships, the quiet heroism, of ordinary soldiers on the Western Front. Table of Contents Foreword / Joseph George Houlden Introduction 1 “about 35 yds from Fritz”: May–December 1916 2 “He was killed by my side”: January–June 1917 3 “I’m still fine”: July–November 1917 4 “It’s hell, kiddo, hell”: December 1917–April 1918 5 “Keep on hoping, sweetheart”: May–December 1918 Epilogue “Don’t forget to write to Grandpa” Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Pearson’s Peacekeepers
Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67 Michael K. Carroll
Pearson’s Peacekeepers brilliantly sums up the significance of the UNEF experience, which was both a failure and a wonderful achievement. Carroll’s book is a major original contribution to the field. He shows that, although a so-called “classic” example of peacekeeping, UNEF has far more relevance to current Canadian operations in response to international crises than is generally thought. – W.A.B. Douglas, official historian of the Canadian Armed Forces In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez Crisis. The award established Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation, but it also launched a national love affair with peacekeeping that has obscured more complex historical realities.
Michael K. carroll is a SDF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
New May 2009 254 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1581-9 hc $85.00 978-0-7748-1582-6 pb $29.95 (January 2010)
Pearson’s Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a comprehensive account of the UN’s first major peacekeeping operation. The UNEF eased tensions and kept peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border for more than a decade, yet it faced tremendous challenges from its creation and its abrupt withdrawal paved the way for further hostilities between Israel and Egypt during the Six Day War. By providing a nuanced account of Canada’s participation in the UNEF, this book not only challenges perceived notions of Canada’s past, but it will also help students, policy-makers, and concerned citizens to more accurately evaluate international peacekeeping efforts in the present. Table of Contents Foreword: Pearson’s Ambiguous Legacy / Robert Bothwell Introduction 1 Prelude to Suez 2 The Steep Hill of Suez 3 Blessed Are the Peacekeepers ... Even the Canadians 4 Let the Fun(ding) Begin: Financing UNEF, 1956-63 5 Ad Hoc Ad Infinitum: Financing UNEF, 1963-67 6 Peace by Piece: UNEF on the Ground 7 The Forgotten Army 8 Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen: The Withdrawal of UNEF, May-June 1967 Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Military history
Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War Amy J. Shaw
Crisis of Conscience is essential reading for anyone who wants a greater understanding of not only conscientious objection but of the entire Canadian experience during the First World War. It is an original and balanced examination of a contentious issue and an important contribution to an often neglected area of scholarship. – Thomas P. Socknat, co-editor of Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945
Amy J. Shaw is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge.
2009 264 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1594-9 pb $32.95
Studies in Canadian Military History
The First World War’s appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada’s first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building. This book will appeal to readers interested in Canadian military and peace history. The book is also relevant to those concerned with questions of voluntarism and obligation in a democratic society, and issues of gender history and minority freedom and identity. Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Responsibilities of Citizenship: Conscientious Objection and the Government 2 Days of Anxiety: Conscientious Objection within the Historic Peace Churches 3 An Insidious Enemy within the Gates: Objection among the Smaller Sects 4 Exemption from Religion on Religious Grounds: Conscientious Objection outside Pacifist Denominations 5 Holier than Thou: Images of Conscientious Objectors Conclusion Appendix: Lists of Conscientious Objectors Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Military history
Betrayed
Clio’s Warriors
Richard O. Mayne
Tim Cook
Mayne’s exhaustively researched and crisply written Betrayed is the sorry tale of tensions within the navy and between the RCN and its government ... The cognoscenti will see Mayne’s book for the wonderful revelation it is. He has exposed the rich texture of the navy’s internal politics and shed light on the machinations of some of the RCN’s key officers during the most difficult years of the war. – Marc Milner, University of New Brunswick, H-Canada
This isn’t a tale of the history of the military. Rather, it’s the history of the history, about the creation of the official histories, and an excellent way to help us understand the struggles of writing official military history. For an all-encompassing view of how our military’s efforts have helped Canada become the nation it is, this work is a must read. – Lieutenant Steven Dieter, The Globe and Mail
Scandal, Politics, and Canadian Naval Leadership
Table of Contents Introduction: The Game and Its Players 1 Confused Seas 2 Equal Privileges for Greater Sacrifices 3 The Strange Interpretation 4 Trying to Keep Afloat 5 Informers, Collaborators, and Promise Breakers 6 A Loaded Investigation 7 Covering Up the Conspiracy Afterword: Game’s End and the Final Score Appendix A: Senior Appointments: Royal Canadian Navy, 1939-45 Appendix B: Naval Service Headquarters Organizational Charts Appendix C: Official and Unofficial Command Arrangements, 1942-43 Notes; Bibliography; Index
2007, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1296-2 pb $29.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars
Table of Contents Introduction: Writing the World Wars 1 Documenting War and Forging Reputations, 1914-18 2 The War of Reputations, 1918-39 3 Clio in the Service of Mars, 1939-45 4 History Wars and War History, 1945-48 5 Official History, Contested Memory, 1948-60 6 Forging the Canon of Canadian World War History, 1960-2000 Conclusion: An Ongoing Dialogue Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
2007, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1257-3 pb $29.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
Military history
Renegades
Canadians in the Spanish Civil War Michael Petrou
Battle Grounds
The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Renegades is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War ... Michael Petrou draws on many new archival sources to present a vivid, rounded, and illuminating account of the almost 1,700 Canadians who served in Spain. While essentially a group biography, there are also some fascinating vignettes of individual volunteers – notably Dr Norman Bethune. – Tom Buchanan, author of Britain and the Spanish Civil War Table of Contents Preface: Spanish Tinderbox Introduction Part 1. Origins of the Volunteers 1 Who Were the Canadian Volunteers? 2 Why Did They Fight? Part 2. International Brigades 3 Going to War 4 Protecting Madrid 5 Aragón Battles; 6 Retreats 7 Back to the Ebro 8 Leaving Spain Part 3. Discipline in the International Brigades 9 Crimes 10 Punishments Part 4. Renegades 11 The Photographer: Bill Williamson 12 T he Idealist: William Krehm 13 T he Doctor: Norman Bethune Part 5. Aftermath 14 Undesirables 15 Conclusion Postscript; Appendix; Bibliography
2008, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1418-8 pb $24.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
In this impeccably researched and sensitively written study, Whitney Lackenbauer provides valuable insights into how Canada’s military had used, and misused, aboriginal lands through the twentieth century. But it is not just for military historians – anyone who wants to understand the current state of Native-government relations will benefit from reading this ground-breaking book. – Jonathan Vance, author of Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation Table of Contents Introduction 1 A Road to Nowhere? The Search for Sites in British Columbia, 1907-30 2 Governmental Uncertainty: The Militia and the Sarcee Reserve, 1908-39 3 “Pay No Attention to Sero”: Imperial Flying Training at Tyendinaga, 1917-18 4 The Thin Edge of a Wedge? The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and Aboriginal Lands, 1940-45 5 Combined Operation: Creating Camp Ipperwash, 1942-45 6 The Cold War at Cold Lake: The Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range, 1951-65 7 Into the Driver’s Seat? The Department of National Defence and the Sarcee Band, 1945-82 8 Renegotiating Relationships: Competing Claims in the 1970s and 1980s 9 Closing Out the Century Reflections Appendices; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
2007, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1316-7 pb $29.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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An Officer and a Lady
Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War
Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers Canada’s Second World War Jeffrey A. Keshen
Cynthia Toman During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers’ rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. They served in all three armed force branches and all the major theatres of war, yet nursing as a form of war work has long been under-explored. An Officer and a Lady fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies.” Table of Contents Introduction 1 “Ready, Aye Ready”: Enlisting Nurses 2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military 3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as “Officers” and “Ladies” 4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work 5 “The Strain of Peace”: Community and Social Memory Conclusion Appendix: Biographical Profiles of Interviewed Nursing Sisters Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
2008, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1448-5 PB $32.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
Winner, 2007 C.P. Stacey Award, The Canadian Historical Committee for the History of the Second World War and for Military History The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes, and the fears they generated, precipitated numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in law and society. From labour conflicts to prostitution and beyond, Keshen demonstrates that World War II was a complex tapestry of social forces – not all of them above reproach. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Patriotism 2 Growth, Opportunity, and Strain 3 The Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the Accommodation Crisis 4 Black Market Profiteering: “More than a fair share” 5 (Im)moral Matters 6 Civilian Women: “Two steps forward and one step back” 7 Women Warriors: “Exactly on a par with the men” 8 The Children’s War: “Youth run wild” 9 The Men Who Marched Away: “Everyone here is optimistic” 10 A New Beginning: “A very clear tendency to improve upon pre-enlistment status” Notes; Index
2007, 416 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0924-5 PB $29.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Military history
The Soldiers’ General Bert Hoffmeister at War Douglas E. Delaney
Fighting from Home
The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec Serge Durflinger
Winner, 2007 C.P. Stacey Award, The Canadian Historical Committee for the History of the Second World War and for Military History This biography is outstanding and will set the standard for future studies. It should be read by all those interested in Canadian military history, but will have an especially strong appeal to serving and recently retired members of the Canadian Forces because of the discussion of leadership and command issues. – Terry Copp, author of Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy Table of Contents Foreword / J.L. Granastein 1 Looking at Command 2 A Young Man before the War 3 The Years of Company Command and Personal Turmoil 4 Battalion Command: Training For War 5 Battalion Command: The Battlefield Test 6 Brigade Command 7 Division Command and the Liri Valley 8 The Lessons From Liri 9 Gothic Line to the End in Italy 10 Northwest Europe and After 11 Hoffmeister and Command Notes; Bibliography; Index
2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1149-1 pb $32.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada’s war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War. Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Studying War at the Local Level 1 Forging a Community 2 Once More into the Breach 3 City Hall Goes to War 4 The People’s Response 5 Institutions and Industry 6 Family and Social Dislocation 7 The Political War 8 Peace and Reconstruction Conclusion Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
2006, 296 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1261-0 pb $32.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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Commanding Canadians
Hometown Horizons
Edited by Michael Whitby
Robert Rutherdale
The Second World War Diaries of A.F. C. Layard
Local Responses to Canada’s Great War
2006 416 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1194-1
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Prisoners of the Home Front
German POWs and “Enemy Aliens” in Southern Quebec, 1940-46
A War of Patrols
Canadian Army Operations in Korea William Johnston
Martin F. Auger 2006 240 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1224-5
2004 448 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1009-8
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Studies in Canadian Military History
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The Red Man’s on the Warpath
The Image of the “Indian” and the Second World War R. Scott Sheffield 2005 240 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1095-1 pb $32.95
Fight or Pay
Soldiers’ Families in the Great War Desmond Morton
2004 368 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1109-5 hc $39.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Military history
Not the Slightest Chance
The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941
The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy
Tony Banham
Inquiry and Intrigue
2004, 452 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1045-6 pb $32.95
John Griffith Armstrong
Roy MacLaren
Winner, 2003 John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Naval and Maritime History, the North American Society for Oceanic History Honourable Mention, 2003 Keith Matthews Prize, The Canadian Nautical Research Society Shortlisted, 2003 Dartmouth Book Award, Non-fiction Shortlisted, John and Mary Savage First Book Award, Atlantic Book Awards
2004, 352 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1100-2 pb $29.95
2002, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0891-0 PB $32.95
Frigates and Foremasts
Studies in Canadian Military History
Studies in Canadian Military History
Published in association with the Canadian War Museum North American rights only
Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945
The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815 Julian Gwyn Winner, 2004 John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History Honourable Mention, Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society
2004, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0911-5 pb $34.95
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Another Kind of Justice
Canadian Military Law from Confederation to Somalia Chris Madsen 2000, 248 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0719-7 pb $32.95
Studies in Canadian Military History
No Place to Run
Published in association with the Canadian War Museum
The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
Avoiding Armageddon
Tim Cook
Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-63 Andrew Richter 2003, 224 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0889-7 pb $32.95 Studies in Canadian Military History
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Stepping Stones to Nowhere The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945 Galen Perras 2004, 288 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0989-4 pb $32.95
US pb rights held by the Naval Institute Press
Winner, 2002 C.P. Stacey Award
2000, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0740-1 pb $32.95
Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War Jonathan F. Vance Honourable Mention, 2000 François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Foundation Winner, 1998 C.P. Stacey Award, Canadian Historical Foundation Winner, 1998 Dafoe Book Prize, John Wesley Dafoe Foundation Winner, 1998 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Foundation
1999, 336 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0600-8 pb $32.95
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Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 Kevin A. Spooner
This is a complex story involving a large cast, whose individual and collective conduct are often questionable and whose motivations are almost invariably contradictory and self-interested. In this definitive study, Spooner meets the challenge of presenting such a thorny subject clearly and persuasively. This is a superb book on a difficult topic that tells us much about UN peacekeeping and Canada’s part in it. – Hector Mackenzie, Senior Departmental Historian, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? Kevin A. Spooner is an assistant
professor of North American studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. New August 2009 320 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1636-6 hc $85.00 978-0-7748-1637-3 PB $32.95 (January 2010)
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By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenged cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Prelude to Crisis: Setting the Stage for Canadian Involvement 2 Decision Time: Diefenbaker and the Dispatch of Peacekeepers 3 Deployment: Trials and Tribulations in ONUC’s Early Days 4 Constitutional Crisis: Peacekeeping in a Political Vacuum 5 Continued Chaos: Balancing Peacekeeping and Politics 6 The Challenge of Katanga: Peacekeeping and the Use of Force 7 Preparing for Withdrawal: ONUC’s Final Months Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
security studies
The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 Edited by Stephen Baranyi
What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? What would it take to achieve durable peace in contexts as different as Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Sri Lanka? Grappling with these questions, this book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies. The studies address two cases of relative success (Guatemala and Mozambique), three cases of renewed but deeply fraught efforts (Afghanistan, Haiti, and the Palestinian Territories), and the case of Sri Lanka, where peacebuilding was aborted but where the outlines of a new peace process can be discerned.
Stephen Baranyi is principal researcher on conflict prevention at the North-South Institute in Ottawa. Contributors: Wenche Hauge,
Carolina Hunguana, Hérard Jadotte, Gabriel Aguilera Peralta, Yves-François Pierre, Kristiana Powell, Pamela Scholey, Khalil Shikaki, Eduardo J. Sitoe, Arne Strand, Jane Murphy Thomas, Beate Thoresen, Jayadeva Uyangoda, and Omar Zakhilwal. 2008 392 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1452-2 pb $34.95
Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction: What Kind of Peace is Possible in the Post-9/11 Era? / Stephen Baranyi 2 Peace in Guatemala: Settling for What Seems Possible of Aiming for What is Desirable / Gabriel Aguilera Peralta 3 Decentralization and Sustainable Peacebuilding in Mozambique: Bringing the Elements Together Again / Eduardo J. Sitoe and Carolina Hunguana 4 Local governance and Sustainable Peace: the Haitian Case / Hérard Jadotte and Yves-François Pierre 5 Palestine 1993-2006: Failed Peacebuilding, Insecurity and Poor Governance / Khalil Shikaki 6 Afghanistan: What Kind of Peace? The Role of Rural Development in Peacebuilding / Omar Zakhilwal and Jane Murphy Thomas 7 Transition from Civil War to Peace: Challenges for Peace-building in Sri Lanka / Jayadeva Uyangoda 8 The Fate of Former Combatants in Guatemala: Spoilers or Agents for Change? / Wenche Hauge and Beate Thoresen 9 Fighting for Peace? Former Combatants and the Afghan Peace Process / Arne Strand 10 Considering the International DDR Experience and Spoiling: Lessons for Palestine / Pamela Scholey and Khalil Shikaki 11 Conclusions / Stephen Baranyi and Kristiana Powell Notes; References; Contributors; Index
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Security STudies
Alliance and Illusion
“Here Is Hell”
Robert Bothwell
Grant Dawson
Canada and the World, 1945-1984
Honourable Mention, 2008 Sir
John A. Macdonald Book Award,
Canadian Historical Association Alliance and Illusion is the definitive assessment of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era. A nuanced study of Canada’s political leaders and the international influences that have driven external affairs, it gives invaluable context to today’s policy dilemmas. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Construction and Reconstruction: Canada in 1945 2 Real Prosperity and Illusory Diplomacy 3 Realigning Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945-1947 4 Dividing the World, 1947-1949 5 Confronting a Changing Asia, 1945-1950 6 From Korea to the Rhine 7 The Era of Good Feeling, 1953-1957 8 Diefenbaker and the Dwindling British Connection 9 Nuclear Nightmares, 1957-1963 10 Innocence at Home: Economic Diplomacy in the 1960s 11 Innocence Abroad: Fumbling for Peace in Indochina 12 Vietnam and Canadian-American Relations 13 National Unity and Foreign Policy 14 Changing the Meaning of Defence 15 National Security and Social Security 16 The 1970s Begin 17 Parallel Lives: Nixon Meets Trudeau 18 The Pursuit of Promises 19 Canada First, 1976-1984 20 Returning to the Centre Conclusion: Multilateral by Profession, Muddled by Nature Notes; Further Reading; Index
2008, 480 pages, 6.5 x 9” 978-0-7748-1369-3 pb $34.95
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Military & Security Studies 2009-2010
Canada’s Engagement in Somalia
For many Canadians, events during the mission to Somalia in the early 1990s remain a stain on our reputation as one of the world’s most respected peacekeeping nations. Grant Dawson’s analysis of political, diplomatic, and military decision making avoids a narrow focus on the shocking offences of a few Canadian soldiers, deftly investigating the broader context of the deployment. Drawing on interviews with key participants and documents made available under the Access to Information Act, Dawson shows how media pressure, government optimism about the United Nations, and the Canadian traditions of multilateralism and peacekeeping all helped to determine the level, length, and tenor of the country’s operations in Somalia. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Food for Thought: Multilateral Humanitarianism and the Somalia Crisis to March 1992 2 The Canadian Forces and the Recommendation to Stay out of Somalia 3 “Do Something Significant”: Government Reconsideration of the Somalia Crisis 4 The Humanitarian Airlift Takes Flight 5 Sticking with the (Wrong) Peacekeeping Mission 6 Problems with the Expanded UN Operation 7 Robust Multilateralism: Support for the Unified Task Force 8 Unified Task Force: Canada’s First Post-Cold War Enforcement Coalition 9 Stay or Go? Weighing a Role in the Second UN Mission 10 The Canadian Joint Force Somalia: In the Field Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
2007, 240 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1298-6 pb $29.95
security studies
Securing Borders
Collective Insecurity
Anna Pratt
Ikechi Mgbeoji
Detention and Deportation in Canada
The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order
2006 304 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1155-2
2004 200 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1037-1
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Law and Society
Law and Society
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy Edited by Rosalind Irwin
Catherine Dauvergne 2005 248 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-1113-2
2002 304 pages, 6 x 9” 978-0-7748-0863-7
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Law and Society
Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction Thomas Graham Jr. 2004 200 pages, 5.5 x 8.5” 978-0-7748-1147-7 pb $19.95 Canadian rights only
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Armstrong, John Griffith Auger, Martin F. Banham, Tony Baranyi, Stephen Bennett, Y.A. Bothwell, Robert Carroll, Michael K. Cook, Tim Dauvergne, Catherine Dawson, Grant Delaney, Douglas E. Durflinger, Serge Gwyn, Julian Irwin, Rosalind Johnston, William Thomas, Graham Jr. Keshen, Jeffrey A. Lackenbauer, P. Whitney MacLaren, Roy Madsen, Chris Mayne, Richard O. Mgbeoji, Ikechi Morton, Desmond Perras, Galen Petrou, Michael Plamondon, Aaron Pratt, Anna Richter, Andrew Rutherdale, Robert Shaw, Amy J. Sheffield, R. Scott Spooner, Kevin A. Toman, Cynthia Vance, Jonathan F. Whitby, Michael
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