Australia, Canada, and Iraq (eBook)

Perspectives on an Invasion

Ramesh Thakur, Jack Cunningham (Herausgeber)

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2015
312 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3153-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. Australia joined in the war, while Canada refused to. Australia, Canada, and Iraq is a collection of essays by world leaders and esteemed academics that offers a fresh review of the war and the critical Australian and Canadian decisions regarding it.

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A collection of essays on the war in Iraq; including pieces by Jean Chrétien and John Howard, the prime ministers during the war.

When it was declared in 2003, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. While a few of America's partners, like Australia, joined in the war, many, including Canada, refused to take part. However the war in Iraq was viewed at the time, though, it is clear that that war and the war in Afghanistan have had a profound and lasting impact on international relations.

Australia, Canada, and Iraq collects essays by fifteen esteemed academics, officials, and politicians, including the prime ministers of Australia and Canada at the time of the war — John Howard and Jean Chretién, respectively. This volume takes advantage of the perspective offered by the decade since the war to provide a clearer understanding of the Australian and Canadian decisions regarding Iraq, and indeed of the invasion itself.

Autoren

Ramesh Thakur is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Responsibility to Protect Commissioner. Currently the director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the Crawford School, Australian National University, he has served as an adviser for governments and international bodies. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Jack Cunningham is the program coordinator of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto.

Inhalt

Contents


Introduction
Jack Cunningham and Ramesh Thakur
1.Staying Out of Iraq
Reflections by the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien 
2.We Were Right to Invade Iraq
The Right Honourable John Howard 
3.Parliamentary Democracies at War: A Panel Discussion 
4.The Shock of the Iraq War, and Awe at the Lingering Effects of the Folly
Ramesh Thakur 
5.The Iraq Invasion and U.S.-U.N. Relations
Roger Coate 
6.The U.S. Alliance of Strategic Cousins
John Blaxland 
7.Australia’s International Deployments in Historical Perspective
William Maley 
8.War and the Canadian Liberal Conscience
John English 
9.Why Australia Invaded Iraq: A Study in Alliance Management
Hugh White 
10.Cheerleaders of Folly: Australia’s Misguided Attempt to be a Good Ally
Charles Sampford 
11.Taking the Off-Ramp: Canadian Diplomacy, Intelligence, and Decision-Making before the Iraq War
Timothy Andrews Sayle 
12.Toujours la Politesse? The “Impolite No” on Iraq in Historical Perspective
Kim Richard Nossal 
13.The Politics of Disarmament: Canada and the Invasion of Iraq, 2002-03
Jack Cunningham

14.Australian Public Opinion Toward the Iraq War
Ian McAllister
Appendix
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Canadian Issues
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Australian defence policy • Australian foreign policy • Australian military history • Australian politics and government • Canadian defence policy • Canadian Foreign Policy • Canadian military history • Canadian politics and government • History of Iraq • Iraq invasion, 2003
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3153-0 / 1459731530
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3153-0 / 9781459731530