Greg Donaghy
Biographic Data
| ID | 2182705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Donaghy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaghy |
| SIGNATURE | DONAGHY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Global Affairs Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Samaritan State Revisited
Canada’s foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada’s 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada’s future foreign aid policy. A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada’s overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideologi…
Pierre Trudeau and Canada’s Pacific tilt, 1945–1984
Canadian international history is currently enjoying an Asian moment. A handful of younger scholars have cast their attention eastward, generating exciting new work on Canadian relations with specific countries and regions across the Pacific region. This article draws on some of their work, as well as the author’s own long-standing research on Canada’s Department of External Affairs, to weigh the Pacific’s changing importance to Canada. The artic…
The politics of accommodation
This paper re-examines Canada’s response to the Suez Crisis within the context of its overall approach to the Middle East in the early 1950s. It reminds contemporary readers that most Canadian policymakers, including Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, viewed the distant and unfamiliar region with reserve, as one better left to the Great Powers to sort out. That view only changed in…
The white paper impulse
Three times in the span of 12 years (1968–1980), the foreign policy of the Canadian government was subjected to review by the Department of External Affairs. Although only the first of these efforts resulted in a white paper formally tabled as such in the House of Commons, subsequent reviews tended to follow the design of the first: a comprehensive examination of all aspects of the country’s foreign policy, led and coordinated by senior officials…
Red China Blues
Like any number of American allies, Canada declined to recognize the revolutionary government of the People’s Republic of China, and helped exclude it from the United Nations in the 1950s. By the early 1960s, there were strong pressures for change. This article examines the efforts of Paul Martin, Sr., Canada’s foreign minister from 1963 to 1968, to respond to those pressures and modernize his country’s approach to the emerging Asian giant. After…
Canadian diplomacy and the Offshore Islands Crisis, 1954–1955
In September 1954 forces from the People’s Republic of China began shelling Chinese Nationalist positions on the tiny offshore islands that lay between the mainland and Formosa (present-day Taiwan). The outsized US response to this routine harassment sparked a Cold War confrontation that soon threatened to escalate out of control. This paper explores Canada’s stake in that crisis. It follows Ottawa’s early reaction to the events in the straits an…
Warlords
Tim Cook Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012. 472pp., $34.00 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0670065219For more than a decade, Canada and its Western allies have been at war with global terrorism, confronting enemies along an uncertain and shifting frontline that has extended through Afghanistan and Iraq, across Asia and into Africa. Though a new kind of conflict for Canadians, this shadowy war raises old questio…
The High Commissioner Who Wouldn't Take Go for an Answer”
This article examines the public diplomacy of one of Canada's first real public diplomats, Paul Martin Sr., who Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed Canada's high commissioner to Britain in 1974, a bittersweet reward for almost 40 years' work in Canada's Parliament. It traces Martin's efforts to stop British authorities from moving Air Canada's landing rights from London's Heathrow Airport to remote, suburban Gatwick. It opens with a discussio…
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Canada's post-war role as a middle power within the UN system and a strong advocate of negotiated settlement of international disputes focuses on Lester Pearson's role in the Suez Crisis of 1956 and dates Canada's new diplomatic stance from that time. This article argues that Canada's emerging diplomatic stance in fact is grounded in the diplomacy surrounding the Korean War at the beginning of that decade
To Know and Be Known
In winter of 1989, five years after his department led effort to establish Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC), secretary of state for external affairs, Joe Clark, met with foundation's board of directors in small meeting room just off reception area on ninth floor of Pearson Building in downtown Ottawa. minister's comments were upbeat and supportive. He was very pleased with foundation's progress. He understood frustrations that accompanied…
The Limits of Alliance
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communi…
The Limits of Alliance
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communi…
“Interests but No Foreign Policy”
Canadians have long delighted in the notion of a diplomatic golden age, whose Pearsonian qualities of selfless and progressive internationalism set them apart as a chosen, if perhaps smug, people. Even today, the notion retains its potency, encouraging pundits and politicians alike to hark back to a simpler age when, in the pithy words of journalist Lawrence Martin, there some idealism around this place. We didn't kneel at the altar of militarism…
Escott Reid
Tests of Global Governance
This book is unique in its use of UN World conferences as a testing ground in the study of global governance. It provides a detailed examination of the conferences with respect to the interface between diplomatic method and new forms of global governance. Because of the complex dynamics involved in these large international conferences, a number of important theoretical debates central to the study of international relations are highlighted. Usin…
All god's children
This article presents an overview of Lloyd Axworthy's efforts as foreign minister to pursue a distinctive Canadian foreign policy that placed human security – the well‐being and security of the individual – at the centre of international politics. It begins by tracing the forces that shaped Axworthy's unique approach to government and diplomacy, challenging the views of those who would dismiss him as a naive and radical idealist. The paper explor…
Documenting the Diplomats
Documenting the Diplomats
This article explores the origins and evolution of Documents on Canadian External Relations, a primary source compilation of historical material published by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. It describes the public policy imperatives that prompted the department to launch its historical series in the period immediately after World War II. More important, it explores how the series was shaped and re-shaped through a …
Foreign Ministries in the European Union
Tolerant Allies
Tolerant Allies
Tolerant Allies
The first detailed behind-the-scenes look at Canada-US relations during the turbulent 1960s, Tolerant Allies draws extensively on recently declassified Canadian and American sources to explore the most important political, economic, and military elements in the bilateral relationship during the 1960s
A Continental Philosophy
The prevailing interpretation of Canadian-American relations in the 1960s emphasizes the fundamental differences that came to divide these close cold war allies during a decade of rapid change. For most historians, relations under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson were typified by mutual hostility, the product of Canadian nationalism and profound differences over the war in Vietnam.(f.1)But this is only part of the sto…
A Continental Philosophy
Domesticating Nato
Foreign Ministries in the European Union
Tolerant Allies
The Limits of Alliance
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communi…
A Continental Philosophy
The prevailing interpretation of Canadian-American relations in the 1960s emphasizes the fundamental differences that came to divide these close cold war allies during a decade of rapid change. For most historians, relations under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson were typified by mutual hostility, the product of Canadian nationalism and profound differences over the war in Vietnam.(f.1)But this is only part of the sto…
Domesticating Nato
Domesticating Nato
FOR THE GENERATION OF POLITICIANS AND DIPLOMATS who shaped Canadian foreign policy in the early years of the cold war, membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was a source of pride and reassurance. Canada had played an important role in negotiating the North Atlantic Treaty in 1948-9 in response to the Soviet Union's aggressive posturing in postwar Europe. As the cold war intensified with the outbreak of war in Korea in 1950, …
Red China Blues
Like any number of American allies, Canada declined to recognize the revolutionary government of the People’s Republic of China, and helped exclude it from the United Nations in the 1950s. By the early 1960s, there were strong pressures for change. This article examines the efforts of Paul Martin, Sr., Canada’s foreign minister from 1963 to 1968, to respond to those pressures and modernize his country’s approach to the emerging Asian giant. After…
Canadian diplomacy and the Offshore Islands Crisis, 1954–1955
In September 1954 forces from the People’s Republic of China began shelling Chinese Nationalist positions on the tiny offshore islands that lay between the mainland and Formosa (present-day Taiwan). The outsized US response to this routine harassment sparked a Cold War confrontation that soon threatened to escalate out of control. This paper explores Canada’s stake in that crisis. It follows Ottawa’s early reaction to the events in the straits an…
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Canada's post-war role as a middle power within the UN system and a strong advocate of negotiated settlement of international disputes focuses on Lester Pearson's role in the Suez Crisis of 1956 and dates Canada's new diplomatic stance from that time. This article argues that Canada's emerging diplomatic stance in fact is grounded in the diplomacy surrounding the Korean War at the beginning of that decade
Tests of Global Governance
This book is unique in its use of UN World conferences as a testing ground in the study of global governance. It provides a detailed examination of the conferences with respect to the interface between diplomatic method and new forms of global governance. Because of the complex dynamics involved in these large international conferences, a number of important theoretical debates central to the study of international relations are highlighted. Usin…
Documenting the Diplomats
A Continental Philosophy
Domesticating Nato
Domesticating Nato
FOR THE GENERATION OF POLITICIANS AND DIPLOMATS who shaped Canadian foreign policy in the early years of the cold war, membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was a source of pride and reassurance. Canada had played an important role in negotiating the North Atlantic Treaty in 1948-9 in response to the Soviet Union's aggressive posturing in postwar Europe. As the cold war intensified with the outbreak of war in Korea in 1950, …
A Continental Philosophy
The prevailing interpretation of Canadian-American relations in the 1960s emphasizes the fundamental differences that came to divide these close cold war allies during a decade of rapid change. For most historians, relations under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and President Lyndon Johnson were typified by mutual hostility, the product of Canadian nationalism and profound differences over the war in Vietnam.(f.1)But this is only part of the sto…
A Continental Philosophy
Tolerant Allies
Tolerant Allies
The first detailed behind-the-scenes look at Canada-US relations during the turbulent 1960s, Tolerant Allies draws extensively on recently declassified Canadian and American sources to explore the most important political, economic, and military elements in the bilateral relationship during the 1960s
All god's children
This article presents an overview of Lloyd Axworthy's efforts as foreign minister to pursue a distinctive Canadian foreign policy that placed human security – the well‐being and security of the individual – at the centre of international politics. It begins by tracing the forces that shaped Axworthy's unique approach to government and diplomacy, challenging the views of those who would dismiss him as a naive and radical idealist. The paper explor…
Documenting the Diplomats
Documenting the Diplomats
This article explores the origins and evolution of Documents on Canadian External Relations, a primary source compilation of historical material published by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. It describes the public policy imperatives that prompted the department to launch its historical series in the period immediately after World War II. More important, it explores how the series was shaped and re-shaped through a …
Foreign Ministries in the European Union
Tolerant Allies
Tests of Global Governance
This book is unique in its use of UN World conferences as a testing ground in the study of global governance. It provides a detailed examination of the conferences with respect to the interface between diplomatic method and new forms of global governance. Because of the complex dynamics involved in these large international conferences, a number of important theoretical debates central to the study of international relations are highlighted. Usin…
Escott Reid
“Interests but No Foreign Policy”
Canadians have long delighted in the notion of a diplomatic golden age, whose Pearsonian qualities of selfless and progressive internationalism set them apart as a chosen, if perhaps smug, people. Even today, the notion retains its potency, encouraging pundits and politicians alike to hark back to a simpler age when, in the pithy words of journalist Lawrence Martin, there some idealism around this place. We didn't kneel at the altar of militarism…
To Know and Be Known
In winter of 1989, five years after his department led effort to establish Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC), secretary of state for external affairs, Joe Clark, met with foundation's board of directors in small meeting room just off reception area on ninth floor of Pearson Building in downtown Ottawa. minister's comments were upbeat and supportive. He was very pleased with foundation's progress. He understood frustrations that accompanied…
The Limits of Alliance
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communi…
The Limits of Alliance
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communi…
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Canada's post-war role as a middle power within the UN system and a strong advocate of negotiated settlement of international disputes focuses on Lester Pearson's role in the Suez Crisis of 1956 and dates Canada's new diplomatic stance from that time. This article argues that Canada's emerging diplomatic stance in fact is grounded in the diplomacy surrounding the Korean War at the beginning of that decade
The High Commissioner Who Wouldn't Take Go for an Answer”
This article examines the public diplomacy of one of Canada's first real public diplomats, Paul Martin Sr., who Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed Canada's high commissioner to Britain in 1974, a bittersweet reward for almost 40 years' work in Canada's Parliament. It traces Martin's efforts to stop British authorities from moving Air Canada's landing rights from London's Heathrow Airport to remote, suburban Gatwick. It opens with a discussio…
Red China Blues
Like any number of American allies, Canada declined to recognize the revolutionary government of the People’s Republic of China, and helped exclude it from the United Nations in the 1950s. By the early 1960s, there were strong pressures for change. This article examines the efforts of Paul Martin, Sr., Canada’s foreign minister from 1963 to 1968, to respond to those pressures and modernize his country’s approach to the emerging Asian giant. After…
Canadian diplomacy and the Offshore Islands Crisis, 1954–1955
In September 1954 forces from the People’s Republic of China began shelling Chinese Nationalist positions on the tiny offshore islands that lay between the mainland and Formosa (present-day Taiwan). The outsized US response to this routine harassment sparked a Cold War confrontation that soon threatened to escalate out of control. This paper explores Canada’s stake in that crisis. It follows Ottawa’s early reaction to the events in the straits an…
Warlords
Tim Cook Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012. 472pp., $34.00 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0670065219For more than a decade, Canada and its Western allies have been at war with global terrorism, confronting enemies along an uncertain and shifting frontline that has extended through Afghanistan and Iraq, across Asia and into Africa. Though a new kind of conflict for Canadians, this shadowy war raises old questio…
The white paper impulse
Three times in the span of 12 years (1968–1980), the foreign policy of the Canadian government was subjected to review by the Department of External Affairs. Although only the first of these efforts resulted in a white paper formally tabled as such in the House of Commons, subsequent reviews tended to follow the design of the first: a comprehensive examination of all aspects of the country’s foreign policy, led and coordinated by senior officials…
The politics of accommodation
This paper re-examines Canada’s response to the Suez Crisis within the context of its overall approach to the Middle East in the early 1950s. It reminds contemporary readers that most Canadian policymakers, including Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, viewed the distant and unfamiliar region with reserve, as one better left to the Great Powers to sort out. That view only changed in…
A Samaritan State Revisited
Canada’s foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada’s 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada’s future foreign aid policy. A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada’s overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideologi…
Political science (25 works) · Canadian Identity and History (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (13 works) · History (13 works) · History (11 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Political economy (9 works)