Editors’ Introduction
| Date | 01 March 2015 |
| Author | Mairi MacDonald,Adam Chapnick |
| Published date | 01 March 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020702014565067 |
| Subject Matter | Editors’ Introduction |
International Journal
2015, Vol. 70(1) 3
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Editors’ Introduction
This issue of International Journal considers, among other things, how present
international statecraft reflects policymakers’ understandings and legacies of the
past. The essays by Michael Manulak and Don Munton are explicitly historical,
drawing from extensive archival sources to reinterpret popular understandings of
elements of Canada’s diplomatic history. Marat Grebennikov, along with the
authors of our two Lessons of History essays, Ruth Compton Brouwer and Heike
Wieters, uses a historical lens to interrogate contemporary questions in international
relations. Grebennikov explores the lessons of late British colonial counter-
insurgency operations for present-day Russian policy in the North Caucasus,
while Compton Brouwer and Wieters examine non-governmental organizations
involved in international development. Andreas Bock, Ingo Henneberg, and
Friedrich Plank complement Grebennikov’s exploration of contemporary Russian
politics with a policy brief on Ukraine, while Franc¸ ois Audet and Rebecca Tiessen
flesh out the discussion of international development through their examinations of
the emergency aid-development continuum and gender essentialism in Canadian
foreign aid policy. Michael Charokopos presents a detailed analysis of European
Union aviation policy, and Jeremy Youde contributes an insightful introduction to
global health governance in our teaching tools section. Academics who plan to deal
with Ebola in their courses next year will find Youde’s article particularly helpful.
The issue concludes, as always, with an extensive selection of book reviews.
The publication of this issue also provides us with an opportunity to acknowledge
the winners of IJ’s three article prizes for 2014. Youngwon Cho’s article ‘‘Method to
the madness of Chairman Kim: The instrumental rationality of North Korea’s pur-
suit of nuclear weapons’’ (vol. 69, no. 1: 5–25) is the latest winner of the SAGE award
for international scholarship. We congratulate Claire Turenne Sjolander, who wins
this year’s Marcel Cadieux award for the best article on Canadian foreign policy for
‘‘Through the looking glass: Canadian identity and the War of 1812’’ (vol. 69, no. 2:
152–167). And we salute Peter Harris, the latest recipient of the Marvin Gelber Prize,
which recognizes the best article by a new scholar, for his ‘‘Environmental protection
as international security: Securing the Pentagon’s island bases in the Asia-Pacific’’
(vol. 69, no. 3: 377–393).
Adam Chapnick
achapnick@internationaljournal.ca
Mairi MacDonald
mmacdonald@internationaljournal.ca
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