Review: Canada: Over Here and over There
| Date | 01 December 2002 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200205700423 |
| Published date | 01 December 2002 |
| Author | Andrew Richter |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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policy-making
process.
It
will
also
undoubtedly
provoke
debate about
the
relevance
of
trade
to
domestic
and
external
policies generally.
This
is
a
model
work
of
international
history.
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McKenzie/University
of
Western
Ontario
OVER
HERE
AND
OVER
THERE
Canada-us
defence
cooperation
in
an
era
of
interoperability
Edited
by
David
G.
Haglund
Kingston
ON:
Queen's
Quarterly
for
Centre
for
International
Relations,
Queen's
University,
2001,
2
79pp,
$15.00,
ISSN
0033-6041
Over
the
past
several years,
much
has
been
written
about
interoper-
ability,
which
can
be
defined
as
the
ability
of
military
forces
from
dif-
ferent
countries
to
share
common
defence
systems,
doctrines,
and
training
techniques
that
allow
them
to
co-operate
seamlessly
on
the
battlefield. Given
the
intimacy
of
the
Canada-United
States
defence
relationship,
interoperability
with
the
American
military
has
long
been
a
goal
of
Canada's
Department
of
National
Defence
(DND).
However,
despite
this
objective,
little
has
been
written
about
how
the
Canadian
Forces
will achieve
interoperability
with their
American
counterparts,
particularly
because
the
disparities
in
size,
power,
and capabilities
between
the
two
will
almost
certainly
continue
to
grow.
A
new
book
edited
by
David
Haglund
tackles
this
subject
head
on, and
it
takes
a
surprisingly
broad
view
of
how
interoperability is
to
be
achieved
and
the
potential
roadblocks
that
may
hinder
its
fulfilment.
According
to
the
argument
put
forward
most
succinctly
in
David
Haglund's
introductory
chapter
and
in
chapter
one
(which
focuses
on
DND's
1999
document
Shaping
the
Future
of
Canadian
Defence:
A
Strategy
for
2020),
Canada-United
States defence
co-operation
in
North
America
hinges
not
only on
compatible notions
of
'continen-
talism,'
but
also
and
to
a
large
extent
on
broader
issues
occurring
in
the
external
environment. Thus,
the
book
features
chapters
on
a
wide
array
of
topics,
ranging
from
Joel Sokolsky's
examination
of
Canadian
foreign
policy
when
Lloyd
Axworthy
was
foreign
minister,
to
James
Helis
on how the
Canadian
and
United
States
governments
approached
the
ongoing
Haiti
crisis
in
the
1990s,
to
Charles
Pentland
on
recent
developments
regarding the
European
Security
and
Defence
Identity
(ESDI).
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