Denis Stairs
Biographic Data
| ID | 738137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Stairs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Stairs |
| SIGNATURE | STAIRS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Life in a Canadian Foreign Policy generation long ago: The early evolution of a professorial sample of one
In response to the editors’ request, this article attempts to identify the developmental factors that have influenced the way the author has approached the study of Canadian Foreign Policy. It begins with some comments on the post-World War II international environment and on how it was regarded within his family household. His later exposures to the study of international affairs while an undergraduate at Dalhousie and subsequently at Oxford are…
John W. Holmes and the Diplomacy of Lesser Powers: Do his Guidelines Still Apply
Do his guidelines still apply?It is necessary to bear in mind.. .that the diplomacy of lesser powers is a diplomacy not of pressure but of influence, with certain rules:You need negotiators of first-class personal stature.You can achieve more by quiet influence in the corridors than by loud language.It seldom pays to stick out your tongue to prove your virility.You should be committed to your friends but not to any blocs, Eastern, Western, or Neu…
Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond
Intellectual on Watch: James Eayrs and the Study of Foreign Policy and International Affairs
The editors of the International Journal decided some time ago that they would like to recognize the extraordinary contribution of James Eayrs to the study of Canadian foreign policy and related subjects by devoting a special section of one of their issues to articles on questions related to the substance of his work. I was delighted to have the opportunity to act as guest editor for this purpose, and Daryl Copeland, Daniel Madar, and Kim Richard…
Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Foreign Policy in the Paul Martin Era
THE PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLES in this special issue of the International Journal is to offer suggestions on foreign policy for the new prime minister. In this context, my own task is to review, in very broad terms, some of the challenges and opportunities that he and his colleagues in the Cabinet will be confronting. Other contributors consider similar sorts of questions, but in reference to more specific issues or to particular regions of the worl…
Myths, Morals, and Reality in Canadian Foreign Policy
Denis Stairs is McCulloch Professor in Political Science at Dalhousie University and a Faculty Fellow in its Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. This article is a slightly modified version of a lecture delivered at Concordia University in Montreal on 14 March 2003INTRODUCTIONThe discussion in this article is premised on a series of unabashedly subjective assertions with which other observers are almost certain to disagree. If, however, there is ev…
Canada and the Security Problem: Implications as the Millennium Turns
THE CONTEXTBROADLY DEFINED, THE CIRCUMSTANCES that we all face as we approach the millennium are well known (or at least widely assumed) and those most commonly cited can be reduced to a series of recurrently trumpeted propositions. Most are blindingly obvious. Some may be a trifle vacuous. And a few are probably misleading or even dead wrong. But to set a context for the discussion that follows it may be useful to run quickly through them noneth…
Of medium powers and middling roles
Social scientists who apply their craft to the study of international affairs sometimes display disconcerting habits. One of them comes from their love of conceptual order and their impatience with the untidiness of the real world. Commentators on the roles played by 'middle powers' in world affairs too often exhibit precisely this unrestrained search for relief from eclecticism. Hence they assume, or they try artfully to demonstrate, that patter…
The Media and the Military in Canada: Reflections on a Time of Troubles
The media and the military in Canada are at Loggerheads. No consumer of Canadian newspapers or television in recent months could reasonably conclude otherwise. However much the two adversaries may seek to submerge their anger with one another in the prudent code of civility that commonly governs Canadian public discourse, it is hard for them to conceal the fact that such mutual trust as they might once have enjoyed has largely broken down. This m…
Will and Circumstance and the Postwar Study of Canada's Foreign Policy
Denis Stairs, Will and Circumstance and the Postwar Study of Canada's Foreign Policy, International Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, The Study of International Relations in Canada (Winter, 1994/1995), pp. 9-39
Liberalism, Methodism, and Statecraft: The Secular Life of a Canadian Practitioner
The Pedagogics of John W. Holmes
Canada
The Political Culture of Canadian Foreign Policy
On prétend souvent que les élites politiques du Canada, plus qu'ailleurs, établissent leur leadership, guidées par une combinaison conjugueé de principes et d'adaptation aux circonstances. Cette thèse est fort étayée par la politique étrangère canadienne; l'on trouve des exemples dans l'approche d'Ottawa à la formation des Nations Unies, dans la manière de résoudre les conflits internationaux et dans l'administration des relations bilatérales ave…
Negotiating While Fighting. The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference
Public Opinion and External Affairs: Reflections on the Domestication of Canadian Foreign Policy
In the study of politics and the political process there are few subjects more maddeningly elusive than the role played by public opinion in the making of public policy. The very concept itself is ill defined. What, after all, is a 'public/ and what does it mean to say that it has an 'opinion? If such opinions there be, they cannot be seen or touched (although sometimes not always they can be heard). How, then, are they to be known and measured? …
Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs
Daniel Madar, Denis Stairs, Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs, International Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, Planning and Prediction (Autumn, 1977), pp. 727-755
Embassy at War
The Diplomacy of Constraint. Canada, The Korean War, and the United States
Present in Moderation: Lester Pearson and the Craft of Diplomacy
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea
Publics and Policy-Makers: The Domestic Environment of Canada's Foreign Policy Community
The United Nations and the Politics of the Korean War
Only a small portion of the voluminous literature on the Korean War has devoted serious attention to the role played in the conflict by the United Nations, or to its effect upon the diplomacy and politics to which the outbreak of the hostilities gave rise. A handful of studies are, however, available, and it is my purpose to suggest that their authors have tended to overlook an important dimension of the organization's impact upon international p…
The Korean Decision: June 24-30, 1950
Canada and Three Crises
Public Opinion and External Affairs: Reflections on the Domestication of Canadian Foreign Policy
In the study of politics and the political process there are few subjects more maddeningly elusive than the role played by public opinion in the making of public policy. The very concept itself is ill defined. What, after all, is a 'public/ and what does it mean to say that it has an 'opinion? If such opinions there be, they cannot be seen or touched (although sometimes not always they can be heard). How, then, are they to be known and measured? …
The Political Culture of Canadian Foreign Policy
On prétend souvent que les élites politiques du Canada, plus qu'ailleurs, établissent leur leadership, guidées par une combinaison conjugueé de principes et d'adaptation aux circonstances. Cette thèse est fort étayée par la politique étrangère canadienne; l'on trouve des exemples dans l'approche d'Ottawa à la formation des Nations Unies, dans la manière de résoudre les conflits internationaux et dans l'administration des relations bilatérales ave…
Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs
Daniel Madar, Denis Stairs, Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs, International Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, Planning and Prediction (Autumn, 1977), pp. 727-755
Myths, Morals, and Reality in Canadian Foreign Policy
Denis Stairs is McCulloch Professor in Political Science at Dalhousie University and a Faculty Fellow in its Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. This article is a slightly modified version of a lecture delivered at Concordia University in Montreal on 14 March 2003INTRODUCTIONThe discussion in this article is premised on a series of unabashedly subjective assertions with which other observers are almost certain to disagree. If, however, there is ev…
Present in Moderation: Lester Pearson and the Craft of Diplomacy
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea
Canada and Three Crises
The Media and the Military in Canada: Reflections on a Time of Troubles
The media and the military in Canada are at Loggerheads. No consumer of Canadian newspapers or television in recent months could reasonably conclude otherwise. However much the two adversaries may seek to submerge their anger with one another in the prudent code of civility that commonly governs Canadian public discourse, it is hard for them to conceal the fact that such mutual trust as they might once have enjoyed has largely broken down. This m…
Negotiating While Fighting. The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference
The United Nations and the Politics of the Korean War
Only a small portion of the voluminous literature on the Korean War has devoted serious attention to the role played in the conflict by the United Nations, or to its effect upon the diplomacy and politics to which the outbreak of the hostilities gave rise. A handful of studies are, however, available, and it is my purpose to suggest that their authors have tended to overlook an important dimension of the organization's impact upon international p…
The Korean Decision: June 24-30, 1950
Strange Battlefield. The Operations in Korea and Their Effects on the Defence Policy of Canada
The Korean Decision: June 24-30, 1950
Canada and Three Crises
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea
Publics and Policy-Makers: The Domestic Environment of Canada's Foreign Policy Community
The United Nations and the Politics of the Korean War
Only a small portion of the voluminous literature on the Korean War has devoted serious attention to the role played in the conflict by the United Nations, or to its effect upon the diplomacy and politics to which the outbreak of the hostilities gave rise. A handful of studies are, however, available, and it is my purpose to suggest that their authors have tended to overlook an important dimension of the organization's impact upon international p…
Present in Moderation: Lester Pearson and the Craft of Diplomacy
The Diplomacy of Constraint. Canada, The Korean War, and the United States
Embassy at War
Public Opinion and External Affairs: Reflections on the Domestication of Canadian Foreign Policy
In the study of politics and the political process there are few subjects more maddeningly elusive than the role played by public opinion in the making of public policy. The very concept itself is ill defined. What, after all, is a 'public/ and what does it mean to say that it has an 'opinion? If such opinions there be, they cannot be seen or touched (although sometimes not always they can be heard). How, then, are they to be known and measured? …
Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs
Daniel Madar, Denis Stairs, Alone on Killers' Row: The Policy Analysis Group and the Department of External Affairs, International Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, Planning and Prediction (Autumn, 1977), pp. 727-755
Negotiating While Fighting. The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference
The Political Culture of Canadian Foreign Policy
On prétend souvent que les élites politiques du Canada, plus qu'ailleurs, établissent leur leadership, guidées par une combinaison conjugueé de principes et d'adaptation aux circonstances. Cette thèse est fort étayée par la politique étrangère canadienne; l'on trouve des exemples dans l'approche d'Ottawa à la formation des Nations Unies, dans la manière de résoudre les conflits internationaux et dans l'administration des relations bilatérales ave…
Canada
The Pedagogics of John W. Holmes
Liberalism, Methodism, and Statecraft: The Secular Life of a Canadian Practitioner
Will and Circumstance and the Postwar Study of Canada's Foreign Policy
Denis Stairs, Will and Circumstance and the Postwar Study of Canada's Foreign Policy, International Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, The Study of International Relations in Canada (Winter, 1994/1995), pp. 9-39
Of medium powers and middling roles
Social scientists who apply their craft to the study of international affairs sometimes display disconcerting habits. One of them comes from their love of conceptual order and their impatience with the untidiness of the real world. Commentators on the roles played by 'middle powers' in world affairs too often exhibit precisely this unrestrained search for relief from eclecticism. Hence they assume, or they try artfully to demonstrate, that patter…
The Media and the Military in Canada: Reflections on a Time of Troubles
The media and the military in Canada are at Loggerheads. No consumer of Canadian newspapers or television in recent months could reasonably conclude otherwise. However much the two adversaries may seek to submerge their anger with one another in the prudent code of civility that commonly governs Canadian public discourse, it is hard for them to conceal the fact that such mutual trust as they might once have enjoyed has largely broken down. This m…
Canada and the Security Problem: Implications as the Millennium Turns
THE CONTEXTBROADLY DEFINED, THE CIRCUMSTANCES that we all face as we approach the millennium are well known (or at least widely assumed) and those most commonly cited can be reduced to a series of recurrently trumpeted propositions. Most are blindingly obvious. Some may be a trifle vacuous. And a few are probably misleading or even dead wrong. But to set a context for the discussion that follows it may be useful to run quickly through them noneth…
Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Foreign Policy in the Paul Martin Era
THE PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLES in this special issue of the International Journal is to offer suggestions on foreign policy for the new prime minister. In this context, my own task is to review, in very broad terms, some of the challenges and opportunities that he and his colleagues in the Cabinet will be confronting. Other contributors consider similar sorts of questions, but in reference to more specific issues or to particular regions of the worl…
Myths, Morals, and Reality in Canadian Foreign Policy
Denis Stairs is McCulloch Professor in Political Science at Dalhousie University and a Faculty Fellow in its Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. This article is a slightly modified version of a lecture delivered at Concordia University in Montreal on 14 March 2003INTRODUCTIONThe discussion in this article is premised on a series of unabashedly subjective assertions with which other observers are almost certain to disagree. If, however, there is ev…
Intellectual on Watch: James Eayrs and the Study of Foreign Policy and International Affairs
The editors of the International Journal decided some time ago that they would like to recognize the extraordinary contribution of James Eayrs to the study of Canadian foreign policy and related subjects by devoting a special section of one of their issues to articles on questions related to the substance of his work. I was delighted to have the opportunity to act as guest editor for this purpose, and Daryl Copeland, Daniel Madar, and Kim Richard…
Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond
John W. Holmes and the Diplomacy of Lesser Powers: Do his Guidelines Still Apply
Do his guidelines still apply?It is necessary to bear in mind.. .that the diplomacy of lesser powers is a diplomacy not of pressure but of influence, with certain rules:You need negotiators of first-class personal stature.You can achieve more by quiet influence in the corridors than by loud language.It seldom pays to stick out your tongue to prove your virility.You should be committed to your friends but not to any blocs, Eastern, Western, or Neu…
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