NOTES 1 Escott Reid , On Duty : A Canadian at the Making of the United Nations , 1945-1949 ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1983 ) ; Time of Fear and Hope : The Making of the North Atlantic Treaty , 1947-1949 ( Toronto ...
Author: Stéphane Roussel
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773527133
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 180
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Escott Reid: Diplomat and Scholar offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada. The authors challenge critics who dismiss Reid as an impractical idealist, demonstrating that his approach to policy-making was sophisticated and his progressive idealism tempered by an astute grasp of the competing interests of a range of national and bureaucratic powers. Reid's reflections on Canada's place in the world remain as relevant and provocative as when he wrote them.
In India DAVID C. REECE Escott Reid and India was a strong and happy mix . Reid chose to go to India in 1952 rather than to accept one of two other important posts on offer at that time . Five years after independence , India under ...
For Reid's analysis on how the special relationship developed, see Chapter 2 of that volume. ... 3 See for example G. Donaghy, “'The Most Important Place in the World': Escott Reid in India, 1952–57,” in Escott Reid: Diplomat and ...
Author: Laura Madokoro
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774834469
Category: History
Page: 332
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How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? In Dominion of Race, leading scholars demonstrate the necessity of placing race at the centre of the narratives of Canadian international history. Destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world, they expose how race-thinking has informed priorities and policies, positioned Canada in the international community, and contributed to a global order rooted in racial beliefs. By demonstrating that race is a fundamental component of Canada and its international history, this book calls for reengagement with the histories of those marginalized in, or excluded from, the historical record.
See also Escott Reid, Radical Mandarin: Memoirs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 989), 34 −2. 35 Interview with Timothy Reid, Toronto, 30 March 2003. 36 LAC, Reid Fonds, vol. 38, Reid to Murray Ross, 20 Nov. 964.
Author: Michiel Horn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773577244
Category: History
Page: 328
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In York University: The Way Must Be Tried, Michiel Horn weaves archival research and interviews into a compelling narrative, documenting the development of an institution committed to helping professors and studies reach across disciplinary boundaries. He covers the challenges York has faced through the years - from the 1963 faculty "revolt," to the troubled search for a successor to founding president Murray Ross, to the budgetary problems that led to the resignation of President David Slater, as well as its many innovations and triumphs - including bilingualism at Glendon College, Osgoode Hall Law School's Parkdale legal clinic, and Canada's first concurrent Bachelor of Education program. The philosophies that guide the faculties of administrative studies, fine arts, and environmental studies, and the ground-breaking research done in science and engineering are explored in detail.
H.V. Evatt, London, to John Curtin, 9.4.45. NAA: A5954, 1821/3. Gerig was associate chief of the division of international organization affairs in the State Department. Escott Reid, London, to Mackenzie King, 24.8.45. Reid/5/7.
Author: Andrew Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780857732330
Category: Political Science
Page: 344
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The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War. Andrew Baker here examines the expansion of US political and economic power and hegemony during this period, and the extent to which smaller states, particularly Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, contested this expansion. Through successfully outlining and defending their own notions of sovereignty, property and commercial rights, they were able to a make a significant contribution towards fashioning a post-war framework more conducive to states than empires. This analysis of the period immediately after World War II will appeal to researchers of history and international relations, as well as those interested in the political economy of the post-war world.
2122, file “External Affairs–Commission on Human Rights, United Nations – If Proposed Terms of Reference Adequate,” “Correspondence between Escott Reid and Deputy Minister of Justice,” August 15, 1946. Reid is generally associated with ...
Author: Andrew Thompson
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774835060
Category: Political Science
Page: 193
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When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians believe that we have always been “on the side of the angels.” This book tells the story of Canada’s contributions – both good and bad – to the development and advancement of international human rights law at the Commission on Human Rights from 1946 to 2006. In it, Canada’s reputation is examined through its involvement in a number of contentious human rights issues – political, civil, racial, women’s, and Indigenous. An in-depth historical overview of six decades of Canadian engagement within the UN human rights system, this book offers new insights into the nuances, complexities, and contradictions of Canada’s human rights policies.
Escott Reid, 'Interview with Sir Raghavan Pillai', 6 January 1954 at LAC, MG31-E46, vol. 8, file. 20, No. Jan 6/54, p. 2. Reid 'Interview with Sir Raghavan Pillai', p. 2. On this matter see Thakur, 'India's Diplomatic Entrepreneurism'.
Author: Alexander E. Davis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351185691
Category: Social Science
Page: 200
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India has become known in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia as ‘the world’s largest democracy’, a ‘natural ally’, the ‘democratic counterweight’ to China and a trading partner of ‘massive economic potential’. This new foreign policy orthodoxy assumes that India will join with these four states and act just as any other democracy would. A set of political and think tank elites has emerged which seek to advance the cause of a culturally superior, if ill-defined, ‘Anglosphere’. Building on postcolonial and constructivist approaches to international relations, this book argues that the same Eurocentric assumptions about India pervade the foreign policies of the Anglosphere states, international relations theory and the idea of the Anglosphere. The assertion of a shared cultural superiority has long guided the foreign policies of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and this has been central to these states’ relationships with postcolonial India. This book details these difficulties through historical and contemporary case studies, which reveal the impossibility of drawing India into Anglosphere-type relationships. At the centre of India-Anglosphere relations, then, is not a shared resonance over liberal ideals, but a postcolonial clash over race, identity and hierarchy. A valuable contribution to the much-needed scholarly quest to follow a critical lens of inquiry into international relations, this book will be of interest to academics and advanced students in international relations, Indian foreign policy, Asian studies, and those interested in the ‘Anglosphere’ as a concept in international affairs.
See Escott Reid, “Canada and the Creation of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1948–1949,” in Michael Fry, ed., Freedom and Change: Essays in Honour of Lester B. Pearson: 106–35. Isabel Campbell, “Canadian Insights into nato Maritime ...
Author: Nicholas Tracy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773587816
Category: History
Page: 488
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In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy's contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective defence as a means of avoiding subordination to other countries. Created in 1910 to support Canadian autonomy, the Royal Canadian Navy has played an important role in defining Canada's relationship with the United Kingdom, the United States, and NATO. Initially involved with participation in Imperial and Commonwealth defence, the RCN's role shifted following the Second World War to primarily ensuring the survival of the NATO alliance and deflecting American influence over Canada. Tracy demonstrates the ways in which the Navy's priorities have realigned since the end of the Cold War, this time partnering with the US and NATO navies in global policing. Insightful, detailed, and grounded in solid historical scholarship, A Two-Edged Sword presents a complete portrait of the shifting relevance and future of a cornerstone of Canadian defence.
LAC, MG 31, E 46, Escott Reid Papers, vol. 27, file 7, CIIA 1939–1941, letter from John Baldwin to Escott Reid, 14 September 1939, and CIIA Policy Memorandum, 18 July 1940. See also Greg Donaghy and Stephane Roussel, Escott Reid, ...
Author: Franco David Macri
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 9780700621088
Category: History
Page: 480
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Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent--a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations. In the first book to cover this southern theater in detail, David Macri closely examines strategic decisions, campaigns, and operations and shows how they affected Allied grand strategy. Drawing on documents of U.S. and British officials, he reveals for the first time how the Sino-Japanese War served as a "proxy war" for the Allies: by keeping Japan's military resources focused on southern China, they hoped to keep the enemy bogged down in a war of attrition that would prevent them from breaching British and Soviet territory. While the most immediate concern was preserving Siberia and its vast resources from invasion, Macri identifies Hong Kong as the keystone in that proxy war-vital in sustaining Chinese resistance against Japan as it provided the logistical interface between the outside world and battles in Hunan and Kwangtung provinces; a situation that emerged because of its vital rail connection to the city of Changsha. He describes the development of Anglo-Japanese low-intensity conflict at Hong Kong; he then explains the geopolitical significance of Hong Kong and southern China for the period following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Opening a new window on this rarely studied theater, Macri underscores China's symbolic importance for the Allies, depicting them as unequal partners who fought the Japanese for entirely different reasons-China for restoration of its national sovereignty, the Allies to keep the Japanese preoccupied. And by aiding China's wartime efforts, the Allies further hoped to undermine Japanese propaganda designed to expel Western powers from its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As Macri shows, Hong Kong was not just a sleepy British Colonial outpost on the fringes of the empire but an essential logistical component of the war, and to fully understand broader events Hong Kong must be viewed together with southern China as a single military zone. His account of that forgotten fight is a pioneering work that provides new insight into the origins of the Pacific War.
By extension the Western industrialized democracies would be called “the First World,” and the Communist bloc “the Second World.” The original reference is to the three estates of prerevolutionary France. Escott Reid, memorandum of 30 ...
Author: Robert Bothwell
Publisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 9780143181262
Category: History
Page: 432
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Canada is in many ways a country of limits, a paradox for a place that enjoys virtually unlimited space. Most of that space is uninhabited, and much of it is uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge north but with most of its population in the south, hugging the U.S. border. An uneasy and difficult country, Canada has nevertheless defied the odds: it remains, in the 21st century, a haven of peace and a beacon of prosperity. Erudite yet accessible and marked by narrative flair, The Penguin History of Canada paints an expansive portrait of a dynamic and complex country.