Review: Canada: Tolerant Allies
| Author | W. Thomas Delworth |
| Published date | 01 June 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800210 |
| Date | 01 June 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
yet
bizarre
relationship
with
its
closest
partner
in
trade, democracy,
and
security,
not
to
mention
its
place
in
the world.
Most
of
the
contribu-
tors
are
frank
and
fair in
their
assessments.
Canada
cannot
go
it
alone.
Moreover,
the
military
is
in
decline
because
the
Liberal
regime
is
a
security
free
rider
and
benefits
politically
from
diverting
resources
from
defence
to
social welfare
programmes. September
11
changed
the
rules,
so
Canada
supported
sending
soldiers
to
Afghanistan.
However,
since
the
book
was
published,
Canada
was
odd-man-out
among
English
speaking
countries
during
the
second Iraq
war,
precisely
because
it
still
worships
at
the
United
Nations
altar
of
multilateralism,
a
strategy
that
will
cost
Canada.
Interoperability
with
the
United
States
must
be
a
Canadian
priority,
and
those
authors who
argue
that
sovereignty will
suffer because
of
it
are
living
in
a
fool's
paradise. Luckily,
a
number
of
the
contributors
make
the
case
that
without
interoperability,
and
a
stronger
Canadian
military, Canada
will
not
be
a
sovereign,
or
even
a
middle,
power
in
defence,
nor
will
it
have
much
effect
in
the
international
system
of
states.
The
book
makes
the
case
that
without
a
modicum
of
hard
power
the
soft
power
game
is
ineffective.
Let
us
hope
that
leaders
in
Ottawa
are
listening.
Joseph
R.
Nunez/United
States
Army
War
College
TOLERANT
ALLIES
Canada
and
the
United
States
1963-1968
Greg
Donaghy
Montreal
&
Kingston:
McGill-Queen's University
Press,
2002,
x,
2
35pp,
$75.00,
ISBN
0-7735-2431-2
TolerantAllies
does
a
fine
job
of
keeping
in
focus
the
often-overlooked
truism
that
any significant
relationship
is
never
problem-free.
If
ever
the
'golden
age'
perspective
on
the study
of
Canada's
international
rela-
tions
seems
tempting
to
students
of
the
mid-century
scene,
Donaghy's
work
provides
a
salutary historiographical
corrective.
The
period
Donaghy
addresses
is
the
five
years
during
which
Lester
B.
Pearson
was
prime minister
(1963-1968).
In
those
five
short but
tumultuous
years
Canada
moved
from
the
declamatory
John
Diefenbaker
era
to
a
more
cerebral
New
Age
under
Pierre
Trudeau.
A
wave
of
euphoria
marked the
Centennial
in
1967
and
it
can be seen
as
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