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Editors' Introduction

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AuthorDavid G. Haglund,Joseph T. Jockel
Published date01 September 2008
DOI10.1177/002070200806300301
Date01 September 2008
Subject MatterCanada-Germany RelationEssays in Honour of Robert Spencer
David G. Haglund &
Joseph T. Jockel
Editors’ introduction
| International Journal | Summer 2008 | 525 |
We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to professors Veronica Kitchen and
Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp for having provided the intellectual leadership for
this special issue on Canada and Germany, intended to pay tribute to one of
our long-serving editorial predecessors at the
International Journal
, Profes-
sor Robert Spencer of the University of Toronto. Bob Spencer served from
1959 to 1984 as co-editor of the
Journal
, with James Eayrs. In spring 2007,
we acknowledged the contributions of Professor Eayrs, in a special theme
issue dedicated to his scholarship and published as our fourth annual John
W. Holmes issue on Canadian foreign policy.
Spencer and Holmes worked together as director and research director
respectively of the Centre for International Studies at the University of
Toronto. This is our fifth annual Holmes issue on Canada’s foreign policy,
and we have chosen to honour Bob Spencer by focusing on an aspect of
Canada’s foreign policy that was so central to his scholarship: Canada’s rela-
tionship with Germany, and more generally its participation in the transat-
lantic community. Not only did Canadian-German relations figure
prominently in the work of Bob Spencer, but they also played a leading role
in Canadian foreign policy during the long decades of the Cold War, and con-
tinue to constitute an important element in this country’s diplomacy in the
early 21st century.

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