American National Security And Economic Relations With Canada 1945 1954

Author : Lawrence R. Aronsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313388231

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American National Security and Economic Relations with Canada, 1945-1954 by Lawrence R. Aronsen Pdf

Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. Toward this end, detailed new information is provided about Canada's contribution to the creation of the postwar economic order from the Bretton Woods Agreement to GATT. Canada's cooperation was rewarded by special economic concessions including the extension of the Hyde Park agreement in 1945, the inclusion of the off-shore purchases clause to the Marshall Plan, and Article II of the NATO Treaty. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Canada's resources played a crucial role in the production of weapons systems for the new air/atomic strategic doctrine. Several policies were adopted to facilitate the expansion of Canadian defense production, notably the relaxation of regulations on technology transfer; the encouragement of private sector investment; and the negotiation of long-term contracts at above-market prices. In the midst of these unprecendented peacetime developments Time Magazine observed that Canada had become America's Indispensable Ally.

Author : Robert Alexander MacKay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015027074866

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Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 by Robert Alexander MacKay Pdf

Author : Edelgard Mahant,Graeme S. Mount
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774842242

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Invisible and Inaudible in Washington by Edelgard Mahant,Graeme S. Mount Pdf

Edelgard Mahant and Graeme Mount examine details of White House policy from 1945 to the 1980s to assess the extent to which the United States could be said to have had a Canada policy. They challenge the popular nationalist view that Canada has been treated as peripheral and dependent, but also counter the opposing view that Washington has respected Canadian advice and benefitted from it. Instead, they argue that for the most part Canada has mattered little in Washington and that America's Canada policy is largely an ad hoc affair.

Author : Asa McKercher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605063

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Camelot and Canada by Asa McKercher Pdf

In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts proclaimed at the University of New Brunswick that "Canada and the United States have carefully maintained the good fences that help make them good neighbours." He could not have foreseen that his presidency would be marked not just by some of the tensest moments of the Cold War but also by the most contentious moments in the Canadian-American relationship. Indeed, the 1963 Canadian federal election was marked by charges that the US government had engineered a plot to oust John Diefenbaker, Canada's nationalist prime minister. Camelot and Canada explores political, economic, and military elements in Canada-US relations in the early 1960s. Asa McKercher challenges the prevailing view that US foreign policymakers, including President Kennedy, were imperious in their conduct toward Canada. Rather, he shows that the period continued to be marked by the special diplomatic relationship that characterized the early postwar years. Even as Diefenbaker's government pursued distinct foreign and economic policies, American officials acknowledged that Canadian objectives legitimately differed from their own and adjusted their policies accordingly. Moreover, for all its bluster, Ottawa rarely moved without weighing the impact that its initiatives might have on Washington. At the same time, McKercher illustrates that there were significant strains on the bilateral relationship, which occurred as a result of mounting doubts in Canada about US leadership in the Cold War, growing Canadian nationalism, and Canadian concern over their country's close economic, military, and cultural ties with the United States. While personal clashes between the two leaders have become mythologized by historians and the public alike, the special relationship between their governments continued to function.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0160872421

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Multinational Operations, Alliances, and International Military Cooperation Past and Future by Anonim Pdf

Center of Military History Publication 70-101- 1.

Author : Kristina Obecny,Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442280229

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U.S.-Canadian Defense Industrial Cooperation by Kristina Obecny,Gregory Sanders Pdf

This study evaluates the health of the U.S.-Canadian defense industrial relationship, which is critically important as the U.S. Department of Defense expands the national technology and industrial base.

Author : Daniel MacFarlane
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774826457

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Negotiating a River by Daniel MacFarlane Pdf

A megaproject half a century in the making, the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history. Possibly the largest construction undertaking in Canadian history, and one of the most ambitious borderlands projects ever embarked upon by two countries, it also required decades of negotiation and the controversial relocation of thousands of people. Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of this megaproject, from the complex diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvring, and environmental diplomacy to the implications on national identities and transnational relations.

Author : Daniel Macfarlane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228018070

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Natural Allies by Daniel Macfarlane Pdf

No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both countries’ economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years. Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations through an environmental lens. From fisheries in the late nineteenth century to oil pipelines in the twenty-first century, Daniel Macfarlane recounts the scores of transborder environmental and energy arrangements made between the two nations. Many became global precedents that influenced international environmental law, governance, and politics, including the Boundary Waters Treaty, the Trail Smelter case, hydroelectric megaprojects, and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements. In addition to water, fish, wood, minerals, and myriad other resources, Natural Allies details the history of the continental energy relationship – from electricity to uranium to fossil fuels –showing how Canada became vital to American strategic interests and, along with the United States, a major international energy power and petro-state. Environmental and energy relations facilitated the integration and prosperity of Canada and the United States but also made these countries responsible for the current climate crisis and other unsustainable forms of ecological degradation. Looking to the future, Natural Allies argues that the concept of national security must be widened to include natural security – a commitment to public, national, and international safety from environmental harms, especially those caused by human actions.

Author : Michael Derek Behiels,Reginald C. Stuart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773537620

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Transnationalism by Michael Derek Behiels,Reginald C. Stuart Pdf

Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States rather than Canadian-American relations.

Author : Gregory C. Kennedy,Keith Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313010552

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Incidents and International Relations by Gregory C. Kennedy,Keith Neilson Pdf

Historians often ignore, treat cursorily, or relegate to footnotes specific incidents in international relations in order to facilitate the construction of a larger narrative. The contributors to this volume argue that researchers do so to their peril, as individual or seemingly isolated incidents can play significant roles in the overall course of history. Incidents are crucial in determining the mental maps that decision makers form regarding the countries and individuals with whom they interact. Incidents can either initiate or block new policies with consequences that are both far-reaching and unexpected. People make foreign policy and an understanding of what elements of an incident were important to these individuals at key points essential to an appreciation of policies subsequently advocated. How individuals view other cultures and nations, how they react to the actions of such nations, and their perceptions of such actions all form key components in this study. Using a variety of examples, these essays show the value of detailed examinations of events, illuminating such matters as British policy in the Far East, French imperial policy, Italian military actions in the interwar period, British attitudes toward Hitler, and the effect of the Soviet Union on British thinking in the 1930s.

Author : Partnership for Peace. Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. Military History Working Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015075641780

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Multinational Operations, Alliances, and International Military Cooperation by Partnership for Peace. Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. Military History Working Group Pdf

Author : Sasha Mullally,David Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780228004929

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Foreign Practices by Sasha Mullally,David Wright Pdf

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other important aspects of the construction of Canada's national health insurance - especially its longstanding dependence on immigrant doctors. Foreign Practices reconsiders the early history of Medicare through the stories of foreign-trained doctors who entered the country in the three decades after the Second World War. By making strategic use of oral history, analyzing contemporary medical debates, and reconstructing doctors' life histories, Sasha Mullally and David Wright demonstrate that foreign doctors arrived by the hundreds at a pivotal moment for health care services. Just as Medicare was launched, Canada began to prioritize "highly skilled manpower" when admitting newcomers, a novel policy that drew thousands of professionals from around the world. Doctors from India and Iran, Haiti and Hong Kong, and Romania and the Republic of South Africa would fundamentally transform the medical landscape of the country. Charting the fascinating history of physician immigration to Canada, and the ethical debates it provoked, Foreign Practices places the Canadian experience within a wider context of global migration after the Second World War.

Author : J. Paul D. Taillon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313012228

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Hijacking and Hostages by J. Paul D. Taillon Pdf

Terrorism and its manifestations continue to evolve, becoming deadlier and more menacing. This study considers the evolution of terrorism since 1968 and how airlines and governments have attempted to deal with this form of violence through a series of nonforce strategies. Using historical examples, we see how governments, particularly the United States, attempted to counter politically motivated aerial hijacking with metal detectors, legal means, and, finally, in frustration, counterviolence operations to subdue terrorists. As nations witnessed aerial hijacking and sieges, the requirement for paramilitary and military counterterrorist forces became a necessity. Through use of examples from Israel (Entebbe 1976), West Germany (Mogadishu 1977), and Egypt (Malta 1985), Taillon concludes that cooperation—ranging from shared intelligence to forward base access and observers—can provide significant advantages in dealing with low-intensity operations. He hopes to highlight those key aspects of cooperation at an international level which have, at least in part, been vital to successful counterterrorist operations in the past and, as we witnessed again in the campaign in Afghanistan, are destined to remain so in the future.

Author : Robert Teigrob
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442693258

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Warming Up to the Cold War by Robert Teigrob Pdf

When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by the powerful influence of American media and culture, demanded a more vigorous response. Warming up to the Cold War shows how American cultural influence helped to undermine waning Canadian nationalism. Comparing Canadian and American responses to events such as the atomic bomb, the Gouzenko Affair, the creation of NATO, and the Korean War, Robert Teigrob traces the role that culture and public opinion played in shaping responses to international affairs. With penetrating political and cultural insight, he examines the Cold War consensus between the two countries to reveal the ways that Canada cited "home-grown" rationales to justify its increasing subservience to American strategy and posturing. Full of fascinating insights, Warming up the Cold War is essential reading for anyone interested in the Cold War, the role of culture in politics, and the history of U.S.-Canada relations.

Author : Francis M. Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313012518

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Money for Ireland by Francis M. Carroll Pdf

Raising money was one of the great successes of the Irish government, as the funds provided the sinews of war with which to fight Britain. This book details the history of the financing of the Irish revolution from both domestic and international loans. Divisions in Irish society over the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of the Irish Free State led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Free State's ability to deny the anti-Treaty forces access to the loan funds through a ten-year court battle would prove a powerful weapon in defeating the Republicans. The Dáil government depended on the loans to finance their operations, and the failure of the anti-Treaty forces was due in part to their shortage of funds. International complications arose for the Free State when courts in Dublin and New York disagreed over dispersal of the money. Upon his return to government office, Eamon de Valera appealed to bond holders, particularly those in the United States, to give the loan money to him to found an opposition newspaper. Only when de Valera himself formed a government would all of the bond money be repaid. These events would raise questions of international law, and the results would shape Irish relations with the United States for a decade.