Robert Bothwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1222941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Bothwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Bothwell |
| SIGNATURE | BOTHWELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Gray to Davos: A Tale of Two Speeches
Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World . Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen
Celebrating Greg Donaghy
Three colleagues pay tribute to Greg Donaghy, who at the time of his death on 1 July 2020 was the co-editor of International Journal and Director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. Dr Donaghy’s imaginative international history expanded the canvas of Canadian foreign policy beyond the traditional limits of the North Atlantic Triangle. As an author, editor, and mentor, he redefined the wa…
Strangers with Memories: The United States and Canada from Free Trade to Baghdad by John Stewart
Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony by Kori Schake
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution; The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies; The Internal E…
Trudeau’s World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84
Pierre Trudeau and most of his contemporaries at home and abroad are now dead. This book offers reflections on Canadian foreign, trade, and defence policies from interviews conducted more than three decades ago with key policy makers, diplomats, and military officers in the Trudeau government and of that era. The interviews are informative and revealingly frank. There is much on the enormous difficulties in dealing with the United States, Europe,…
Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada--US Relations par Stephen Azzi
Reviewed by: Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada--US Relations par Stephen Azzi Robert Bothwell Azzi, Stephen–Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada--US Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 312. In Reconcilable Differences, Stephen Azzi faced two challenges: writing a textbook, and writing a book on Canadian-American relations. These two goals pull in opposite directions. Texts are highly prescriptive, even formu…
Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium Company
A Colonial Nation, Its Neighbor, and Its Empire
In the 1850s and after, the United States was absorbed first by the question of slavery and then by the Civil War. During the Civil War, Canadians divided on the issue, most favoring the Union cause. The Confederates wanted to drag Great Britain into the war, which would have been disastrous for Canada, but peace was preserved. Relations remained peaceful after the war. Americans who thought about Canada believed that actual conquest was not nece…
Whose Man in Havana: Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy
Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada
"Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessi…
Whose Man in Havana: Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy
s memoir is a joyous guide to a life in the Canadian foreign service, and reassuringly he also shows that there is a life after bureaucracy.Graham joined the foreign service when becoming a Canadian diplomat was thought to be a Good Thing.Canada's Department of External Affairs managed to look glamorous from the outside, and proved to be interesting and often strenuous from the inside.Though the foreign service had its share of clunks and incompe…
Pierre Trudeau on His Foreign Policy: A Conversation in 1988
In the summer of 1988, Robert Bothwell and Jack Granatstein were pursuing their research for the final volume in the Canadian Institute of International Affairs' series Canada in World Affairs. As the concluding volume in the long-lived series, the ordinary two-year time span was abandoned; instead, the book was to cover the 1968 to 1984 period, or, in other words, all of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's foreign policy (as well as the Joe Clark in…
Canada and the British Empire
One of the more unexpected developments in recent politics or political thought has been a renewed interest in Empire and, more particularly, the British Empire. Much of that derives from the sudden gust of forceful enthusiasm that swept through right-wing circles in the United States, as Americans geared up for War and Empire, and groped around for models and precedents. Which, it must be admitted, interested academics were not slow to offer fro…
Getting It Done: A Memoir
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
COLOSSUS: The Price of America's Empire Niall Ferguson New York: Penguin Press, 2004. 384pp, $38.00 cloth (ISBN 1-59420-013-0)One of the problems with current history is how swiftly it becomes dated. Historians have never been particularly good at the prognostication business, but they are no better than anybody else at resisting the blandishments of fame and the temptations of fortune. Fame is of course less fickle than fortune, and so it is wit…
Back to the Future: Canada and Empires
ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, the Anglo-American scholar Paul Kennedy published a book on the fate of empires, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.(1) Kennedy's special field was the British Empire and, not surprisingly, the British imperial experience, rising and falling, occupied a central position in his analysis. Non-professional readers might have been surprised at how long the rise had taken, and how rapid and how recent the fall had been.Ther…
Canada-United States Relations: Options for the 1970s
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU in the 1970s, no foreign policy issue was more important, or more elusive, than relations with the United States. Previous governments had tried to tackle that thorny relationship, most recently in the Merchant-Heeney Report of 1965 (named for the two diplomats who wrote it), which stimulated more heat than light when it suggested that 'quiet diplomacy' was the best way to deal with differences between…
Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future
Lloyd AxworthyToronto: Knopf Canada, 2003, xiii, 450pp, $37.95 cloth (ISBN 0-676-97463-5)Lloyd Axworthy was Canadian foreign minister for four and a half years, from early 1996 to fall of 2000. It was in many respects a good time to be foreign minister, especially from a Canadian point of view. Canadians are always unusually preoccupied with Great Neighbour, and Great Neighbour, in those days, was governed by Bill Clinton and Democrats, generally…
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
An Inside Look at External Affairs during the Trudeau Years: The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
Canada's Early Nuclear Policy: Fate, Chance, and Character
In Canada's Early Nuclear Policy Brian Buckley weaves information from a number of disciplines to shed new light on Canada's early policies. Filling a longstanding gap in the national story, he explores the country's role in the early post-war period, cautioning against simplistic explanations and pointing to the continuing roles of contingency and personality in decision making. While the threat of nuclear war has receded in recent years, the nu…
Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93
CANADAEdited by Nelson Michaud and Kim Richard NossalVancouver: UBC Press, 2001, xviii, 326pp, $85.00, ISBN 0774808640It is a truism that no period in history is as mysterious as the recent past - colours but not images, facts sensed but beyond immediate recall, just outside the useful grasp of memory. In terms of history there is often a bridging operation, in which memoirs or authorized biographies carry us to the point where archives are opene…
The Further Shore: Canada and Vietnam
IN CANADA THE VIETNAM WAR is primarily remembered as an episode in domestic politics - riots, protests, dissent - or as a peculiarly unfortunate period in Canadian-American relations. In some ways, this is appropriate. The war was, above all, a public phenomenon, in which diplomacy came up against the force of public opinion and lost. 'Quiet diplomacy,' as far as Canadian-American relations were concerned, was a lost cause, as politicians despera…
A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
An hour and a man the first 15 months 1970 - a troubled year 1971 -progress and preparation the triumphs of 1972 peace comes to Indochina under pressure the Middle East war and the oil crisis what came after summing up
Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition 1953-1969
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
Canada and the British Empire
One of the more unexpected developments in recent politics or political thought has been a renewed interest in Empire and, more particularly, the British Empire. Much of that derives from the sudden gust of forceful enthusiasm that swept through right-wing circles in the United States, as Americans geared up for War and Empire, and groped around for models and precedents. Which, it must be admitted, interested academics were not slow to offer fro…
Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future
Lloyd AxworthyToronto: Knopf Canada, 2003, xiii, 450pp, $37.95 cloth (ISBN 0-676-97463-5)Lloyd Axworthy was Canadian foreign minister for four and a half years, from early 1996 to fall of 2000. It was in many respects a good time to be foreign minister, especially from a Canadian point of view. Canadians are always unusually preoccupied with Great Neighbour, and Great Neighbour, in those days, was governed by Bill Clinton and Democrats, generally…
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Canadian Trade Policy in the Age of American Dominance and British Decline, 1943-1947
Canadian trade with both the United Kingdom and the United States is of a complementary nature, and is a classic example of a basically sound division of labour," the Rowell-Sirois Commission wrote in 1940. It continued: "Canada's position is similar to that of a small man sitting in a big poker game. He must play for the full stakes, but with only a fraction of the capital resources of his two substantial opponents; if he wins, his profits in re…
The Big Chill: Canada and the Cold War
The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism
Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93
CANADAEdited by Nelson Michaud and Kim Richard NossalVancouver: UBC Press, 2001, xviii, 326pp, $85.00, ISBN 0774808640It is a truism that no period in history is as mysterious as the recent past - colours but not images, facts sensed but beyond immediate recall, just outside the useful grasp of memory. In terms of history there is often a bridging operation, in which memoirs or authorized biographies carry us to the point where archives are opene…
Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics and Provincialism
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States after the Cold War
The Commanding Heights: The Battle between Government and Marketplace That Is Reshaping the Modern World
Taking a worldwide perspective, including that of Britain (where the process began under Margaret Thatcher), Europe, the former USSR, China, Latin America and the USA, this is a study of the redefinition of the relationship between state and marketplace. This is the process known as privatization - a term which inadequately expresses the phenomenon's far-reaching changes. The authors set out to show how a revolution in ideas is transforming the w…
Canada's Early Nuclear Policy: Fate, Chance, and Character
In Canada's Early Nuclear Policy Brian Buckley weaves information from a number of disciplines to shed new light on Canada's early policies. Filling a longstanding gap in the national story, he explores the country's role in the early post-war period, cautioning against simplistic explanations and pointing to the continuing roles of contingency and personality in decision making. While the threat of nuclear war has receded in recent years, the nu…
The Further Shore: Canada and Vietnam
IN CANADA THE VIETNAM WAR is primarily remembered as an episode in domestic politics - riots, protests, dissent - or as a peculiarly unfortunate period in Canadian-American relations. In some ways, this is appropriate. The war was, above all, a public phenomenon, in which diplomacy came up against the force of public opinion and lost. 'Quiet diplomacy,' as far as Canadian-American relations were concerned, was a lost cause, as politicians despera…
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism
The View from inside Out: Canadian Diplomats and Their Public
Robert Bothwell, John English, The View from Inside out: Canadian Diplomats and Their Public, International Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, Domestic Sources of Canada's Foreign Policy (Winter, 1983/1984), pp. 47-67
Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic
Minister of Everything
In the last month of his life the Right Honourable CD. Howe was tendered a banquet by his friends. After listening to speeches praising his life and accomplishments the guest of honour stood up to reply. In the audience sat men he had known for years, as students, as clients in the grain business, as civil servants, as wartime administrators, as political colleagues, and as friends. The former prime minister, Louis St Laurent, was there. So was t…
The Canadian Public Service: A Physiology of Government 1967-1970
Canadian Representation at Washington: A Study in Colonial Responsibility
Policy by Other Means: Essays in Honour of C. P. Stacey
A self‐evident national duty’: Canadian foreign policy, 1935–1939
(1975). ‘A self‐evident national duty’: Canadian foreign policy, 1935–1939. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 212-233
Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition 1953-1969
The Canadian Public Service: A Physiology of Government 1967-1970
Minister of Everything
In the last month of his life the Right Honourable CD. Howe was tendered a banquet by his friends. After listening to speeches praising his life and accomplishments the guest of honour stood up to reply. In the audience sat men he had known for years, as students, as clients in the grain business, as civil servants, as wartime administrators, as political colleagues, and as friends. The former prime minister, Louis St Laurent, was there. So was t…
Some Frank Words about the Canadian Historical Review
"Some Frank Words about the Canadian Historical Review." Canadian Historical Review, 58(2), pp. 131–132
Canadian Trade Policy in the Age of American Dominance and British Decline, 1943-1947
Canadian trade with both the United Kingdom and the United States is of a complementary nature, and is a classic example of a basically sound division of labour," the Rowell-Sirois Commission wrote in 1940. It continued: "Canada's position is similar to that of a small man sitting in a big poker game. He must play for the full stakes, but with only a fraction of the capital resources of his two substantial opponents; if he wins, his profits in re…
The Canadian Historical Review and the State of the Profession: A View on our Sixtieth Birthday
"The Canadian Historical Review and the State of the Profession: A View on our Sixtieth Birthday." Canadian Historical Review, 61(1), pp. 1–2
Canada and the Wartime Negotiations over Civil Aviation: The Functional Principle in Operation
Nicholas Mansergh noted that the Canadian Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King had at the very fibre of his being a Gladstonian feel for 'the politics of virtuous passion'. The Virtuous passion' which he felt, Mansergh remarked in The Commonwealth Experience, 'was for Canada and against imperialism'.1 That was certainly true, as was the emphasis given by Mansergh to King's self-proclaimed creed that 'My first duty is to Canada.' 'My view,' …
Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic
Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism
Power, Politics, and Provincialism: Canada since 1945
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics and Provincialism
Radium and Uranium: Evolution of a Company and a Policy
JUST BEFORE NOON, Ottawa time, on Monday, 6 August, x945, the British high commissioner sent a note to the minister of munitions and supply in his own handwriting. 'The thing has gone off,' Malcolm MacDonald wrote to C.D. Howe. Howe moved quickly. Dictating a hasty message for Prime Minister Mackenzie King, he sent his secretaries into the files to pull out a press release which the president of the National Research Council, C.J. Mackenzie, had …
The View from inside Out: Canadian Diplomats and Their Public
Robert Bothwell, John English, The View from Inside out: Canadian Diplomats and Their Public, International Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, Domestic Sources of Canada's Foreign Policy (Winter, 1983/1984), pp. 47-67
Recent American Diplomatic History: A Mouse's Eye View
Gregg Herken. The Winning Weapon : The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York: Knopf, 1980.425 + xiv pp. Timothy P. Ireland. Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.264 pp. Akira Iriye. Power and Culture : The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.336 pp. William W. Stueck. The Road to Confrontation : Amer…
The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin
Canada 1900-1945
As in their earlier work, the highly acclaimed Canada since 1945, the authors focus on the political context of events. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder
Canada Since 1945: Revised Edition
Nucleus: The History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Nucleus: The History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Canada since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism
Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
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