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Studies in Canadian
Military History Series
Series editor: Dr. Dean F. Oliver,
Canadian War Museum
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
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best contemporary scholarship to
provide new insights into all aspects
of Canadian military history, from
earliest times to recent events.
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and comparative – to investigate
gaps in the existing historiography.
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Military & Security STudies
Contents
About UBC Press 2
Acknowledgments 2
Military History
The Politics of Procurement 4
Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write 5
Pearson’s Peacekeepers 6
Crisis of Conscience 7
Betrayed 8
Clio’s Warriors 8
Renegades 9
Battle Grounds 9
An Officer and a Lady 10
Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers 10
The Soldiers’ General 11
Fighting from Home 11
Commanding Canadians 12
Prisoners of the Home Front 12
The Red Man’s on the Warpath 12
Hometown Horizons 12
A War of Patrols 12
Fight or Pay 12
Not the Slightest Chance 13
Canadians Behind Enemy Lines,
1939-1945 13
Frigates and Foremasts 13
Avoiding Armageddon 13
Stepping Stones to Nowhere 13
The Halifax Explosion and the
Royal Canadian Navy 13
Another Kind of Justice 13
No Place to Run 13
Death So Noble 13
Security Studies
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN
Peacekeeping, 1960-64 14
The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding
Post-9/11 15
Alliance and Illusion 16
“Here Is Hell” 16
Securing Borders 17
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation 17
Common Sense on Weapons of Mass
Destruction 17
Collective Insecurity 17
Ethics and Security in Canadian
Foreign Policy 17
Index of Authors 18
Ordering Information 18
Why Publish with UBC Press? 19
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MILitary history
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
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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.
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 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

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
Y.A. Bennett is an associate children, and who drew strength from his family
professor of history at Carleton to appreciate life’s simple pleasures. Timmins’s
University. letters offer a rare glimpse into the experiences and
relationships, the quiet heroism, of ordinary soldiers
New
on the Western Front.
April 2009
224 pages, 6 x 9” Table of Contents
978-0-7748-1608-3 hc $85.00 Foreword / Joseph George Houlden
Introduction
978-0-7748-1609-0 PB $32.95
1 “about 35 yds from Fritz”: May–December 1916
(January 2010)
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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MILitary history
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
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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.
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
Military history
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
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
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

Scandal, Politics, and Canadian Canadian Historians and
Naval Leadership the Writing of the World Wars
Richard O. Mayne Tim Cook

Mayne’s exhaus- This isn’t a tale of

tively researched the history of the
and crisply written military. Rather,
Betrayed is the it’s the history of
sorry tale of the history, about
tensions within the the creation of the
navy and between official histories,
the RCN and its and an excellent
government ... The way to help us
cognoscenti will understand the
see Mayne’s book struggles of writing
for the wonderful official military
revelation it is. He has exposed the rich history. For an all-encompassing view of
texture of the navy’s internal politics and how our military’s efforts have helped
shed light on the machinations of some Canada become the nation it is, this work
of the RCN’s key officers during the most is a must read.
difficult years of the war. – Lieutenant Steven Dieter,
– Marc Milner, University of New The Globe and Mail
Brunswick, H-Canada
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction: Writing the World Wars
Introduction: The Game and Its Players 1 Documenting War and Forging Reputations,
1 Confused Seas 1914-18
2 Equal Privileges for Greater Sacrifices 2 The War of Reputations, 1918-39
3 The Strange Interpretation 3 Clio in the Service of Mars, 1939-45
4 Trying to Keep Afloat 4 History Wars and War History, 1945-48
5 Informers, Collaborators, and Promise 5 Official History, Contested Memory,
Breakers 1948-60
6 A Loaded Investigation 6 Forging the Canon of Canadian World War
7 Covering Up the Conspiracy History, 1960-2000
Afterword: Game’s End and the Final Score Conclusion: An Ongoing Dialogue
Appendix A: Senior Appointments: Royal Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Canadian Navy, 1939-45
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Military history

Renegades Battle Grounds

Canadians in the Spanish Civil War The Canadian Military and
Michael Petrou Aboriginal Lands
P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Renegades is In this impeccably

the fullest and researched and
most authoritative sensitively written
account yet written study, Whitney
of Canadian Lackenbauer
volunteers in the provides valuable
Spanish Civil War insights into how
... Michael Petrou Canada’s military
draws on many new had used, and
archival sources misused, aboriginal
to present a vivid, lands through the
rounded, and twentieth century.
illuminating account of the almost 1,700 But it is not just for military historians
Canadians who served in Spain. While – anyone who wants to understand
essentially a group biography, there are also the current state of Native-government
some fascinating vignettes of individual relations will benefit from reading this
volunteers – notably Dr Norman Bethune. ground-breaking book.
– Tom Buchanan, author of Britain and the – Jonathan Vance, author of Building
Spanish Civil War Canada: People and Projects that
Shaped the Nation
Table of Contents
Preface: Spanish Tinderbox Table of Contents
Introduction  Introduction
Part 1. Origins of the Volunteers 1 A Road to Nowhere? The Search for Sites in
1 Who Were the Canadian Volunteers? British Columbia, 1907-30
2 Why Did They Fight? 2 Governmental Uncertainty: The Militia and
Part 2. International Brigades the Sarcee Reserve, 1908-39
3 Going to War 3 “Pay No Attention to Sero”: Imperial Flying
4 Protecting Madrid Training at Tyendinaga, 1917-18
5 Aragón Battles; 6 Retreats  4 The Thin Edge of a Wedge? The British
7 Back to the Ebro Commonwealth Air Training Plan and
8 Leaving Spain Aboriginal Lands, 1940-45
Part 3. Discipline in the International Brigades  5 Combined Operation: Creating Camp
9 Crimes Ipperwash, 1942-45
10 Punishments 6 The Cold War at Cold Lake: The Primrose
Part 4. Renegades  Lake Air Weapons Range, 1951-65
11 The Photographer: Bill Williamson 7 Into the Driver’s Seat? The Department
12 T he Idealist: William Krehm of National Defence and the Sarcee Band,
13 T he Doctor: Norman Bethune 1945-82
Part 5. Aftermath  8 Renegotiating Relationships: Competing
14 Undesirables Claims in the 1970s and 1980s
15 Conclusion 9 Closing Out the Century
Postscript; Appendix; Bibliography Reflections
Appendices; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
2008, 304 pages, 6 x 9”
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978-0-7748-1316-7 pb $29.95
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Military History Studies in Canadian Military
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Military history

An Officer and a Lady Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers

Canadian Military Nursing and the Canada’s Second World War
Second World War Jeffrey A. Keshen
Cynthia Toman

During the Second Winner, 2007 C.P.

World War, more Stacey Award, The
than 4,000 civilian Canadian Historical
nurses enlisted as Committee for
Nursing Sisters, a the History of the
specially created Second World War
all-female officers’ and for Military
rank of the History
Canadian Armed
The first-ever
Forces. They
synthesis of both
served in all three
the patriotic and
armed force
the problematic
branches and all the major theatres of war,
in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and
yet nursing as a form of war work has long
Soldiers shows how moral and social
been under-explored. An Officer and a
changes, and the fears they generated,
Lady fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes
precipitated numerous, and often
how gender, war, and medical technology
contradictory, legacies in law and society.
intersected to create a legitimate role for
From labour conflicts to prostitution and
women in the masculine environment of
beyond, Keshen demonstrates that World
the military and explores the incongruous
War II was a complex tapestry of social
expectations placed on military nurses as
forces – not all of them above reproach.
“officers and ladies.”
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction
1 Patriotism
1 “Ready, Aye Ready”: Enlisting Nurses
2 Growth, Opportunity, and Strain
2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military
3 The Wartime Prices and Trade Board and
3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as “Officers”
the Accommodation Crisis
and “Ladies”
4 Black Market Profiteering: “More than a
4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work
fair share”
5 “The Strain of Peace”: Community and
5 (Im)moral Matters
Social Memory
6 Civilian Women: “Two steps forward and
Conclusion
one step back”
Appendix: Biographical Profiles of Interviewed
7 Women Warriors: “Exactly on a par with
Nursing Sisters
the men”
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
8 The Children’s War: “Youth run wild”
9 The Men Who Marched Away:
2008, 272 pages, 6 x 9” “Everyone here is optimistic”
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Studies in Canadian to improve upon pre-enlistment status”
Military History Notes; Index

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Military history

The Soldiers’ General Fighting from Home

Bert Hoffmeister at War The Second World War in Verdun,
Douglas E. Delaney Quebec
Serge Durflinger

Winner, 2007 C.P. Stacey In Verdun, English

Award, The Canadian and French speakers
Historical Committee lived side by side.
for the History of the Through their
Second World War and home-front activities
for Military History as much as through
enlistment, they proved
This biography is themselves partners
outstanding and will set in the prosecution of
the standard for future Canada’s war. Shared
studies. It should be experiences and class
read by all those interested in Canadian similarities shaped responses based first
military history, but will have an especially and foremost in a sense of local identity.
strong appeal to serving and recently
Fighting from Home paints a compre-
retired members of the Canadian Forces
hensive, at times intimate, portrait of
because of the discussion of leadership
Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger
and command issues.
offers an innovative interpretive approach
– Terry Copp, author of Fields of Fire: to wartime Canadian and Quebec social
The Canadians in Normandy and cultural dynamics. It will appeal to
Table of Contents anyone interested in the history of the
Foreword / J.L. Granastein Canadian home front during the Second
1 Looking at Command World War.
2 A Young Man before the War
3 The Years of Company Command and Table of Contents
Personal Turmoil Preface
4 Battalion Command: Training For War Introduction: Studying War at the Local Level
5 Battalion Command: The Battlefield Test 1 Forging a Community
6 Brigade Command 2 Once More into the Breach
7 Division Command and the Liri Valley 3 City Hall Goes to War
8 The Lessons From Liri 4 The People’s Response
9 Gothic Line to the End in Italy 5 Institutions and Industry
10 Northwest Europe and After 6 Family and Social Dislocation
11 Hoffmeister and Command 7 The Political War
Notes; Bibliography; Index 8 Peace and Reconstruction
Conclusion
2006, 320 pages, 6 x 9” Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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Commanding Canadians Hometown Horizons

The Second World War Diaries of Local Responses to Canada’s
A.F. C. Layard Great War
Edited by Michael Whitby Robert Rutherdale

2006 2005
416 pages, 6 x 9” 360 pages, 6 x 9”
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pb $32.95 pb $32.95
Studies in Canadian
Military History
Published in association
with the Canadian War
Museum

Prisoners of the Home Front A War of Patrols

German POWs and “Enemy Aliens” Canadian Army Operations in Korea
in Southern Quebec, 1940-46 William Johnston
Martin F. Auger
2006 2004
240 pages, 6 x 9” 448 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1224-5 978-0-7748-1009-8
pb $32.95 HC $34.95
Studies in Canadian Studies in Canadian
Military History Military History
Published in association Published in association
with the Canadian War with the Canadian War
Museum Museum

The Red Man’s on the Warpath Fight or Pay

The Image of the “Indian” and the Soldiers’ Families in the Great War
Second World War
Desmond Morton
R. Scott Sheffield

2005 2004
240 pages, 6 x 9” 368 pages, 6 x 9”
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pb $32.95 hc $39.95

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Not the Slightest Chance
The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941
Tony Banham
2004, 452 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1045-6 pb $32.95
Studies in Canadian Military History
Published in association with the
Canadian War Museum
North American rights only
Canadians Behind Enemy Lines,
1939-1945
Roy MacLaren
2004, 352 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1100-2 pb $29.95
Frigates and Foremasts
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
Studies in Canadian Military History
Published in association with the Canadian
War Museum
Avoiding Armageddon
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
Published in association with the Canadian
War Museum
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
The Halifax Explosion and the
Royal Canadian Navy
Inquiry and Intrigue
John Griffith Armstrong
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
2002, 256 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-0891-0 PB $32.95
Studies in Canadian Military History
Published in association with the Canadian
War Museum
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
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas
Warfare in the First World War
Tim Cook
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”
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security studies 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?

By offering one of the first detailed accounts of

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)
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

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security studies
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
Published in association with the
North-South Institute
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.
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
Canada and the World, 1945-1984
Robert Bothwell
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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“Here Is Hell”
Canada’s Engagement in Somalia
Grant Dawson
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

Detention and Deportation The Liberian Crisis,
in Canada Unilateralism, and Global Order
Anna Pratt Ikechi Mgbeoji

2006 2004
304 pages, 6 x 9” 200 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1155-2 978-0-7748-1037-1
pb $32.95 pb $32.95

Law and Society Law and Society

Humanitarianism, Identity, Ethics and Security in Canadian

and Nation Foreign Policy
Migration Laws in Canada Edited by Rosalind Irwin
and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne

2005 2002
248 pages, 6 x 9” 304 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1113-2 978-0-7748-0863-7
pb $32.95 pb $32.95
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

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Index of Authors
Armstrong, John Griffith 13
Auger, Martin F. 12
Banham, Tony 13
Baranyi, Stephen 15
Bennett, Y.A. 5
Bothwell, Robert 16
Carroll, Michael K. 6
Cook, Tim 8, 13
Dauvergne, Catherine 17
Dawson, Grant 16
Delaney, Douglas E. 11
Durflinger, Serge 11
Gwyn, Julian 13
Irwin, Rosalind 17
Johnston, William 12
Thomas, Graham Jr. 17
Keshen, Jeffrey A. 10
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney 9
MacLaren, Roy 13
Madsen, Chris 13
Mayne, Richard O. 8
Mgbeoji, Ikechi 17
Morton, Desmond 12
Perras, Galen 13
Petrou, Michael 9
Plamondon, Aaron 4
Pratt, Anna 17
Richter, Andrew 13
Rutherdale, Robert 12
Shaw, Amy J. 7
Sheffield, R. Scott 12
Spooner, Kevin A. 14
Toman, Cynthia 10
Vance, Jonathan F. 13
Whitby, Michael 12
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