Canadian Policy and Opinion during the Suez Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5883570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Eayrs (Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto: member of the CIIA., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97 |
| Publication date | 1957-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/40198266 |
| OpenAlex | W4229658525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Middle East is not a part of the world in which Canadians have in the past taken much interest. Only a few Canadian troops fought there in the first world war; none fought there in the second. The two occasions in peacetime when Canada was called upon to intervene in the area in 1885, when Sir John A. Macdonald refused to get Gladstone & Co. out of the hole, and in 1922, when Mackenzie King turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of Lloyd George and Winston Churchill to help hold the line at Chanak are remembered today less as significant dates in the history of Canadian foreign policy than as milestones along the path of constitutional development. Some quickening of interest may be discerned since 1945, chiefly because of Canada's role as midwife's helper at the birth of the state of Israel. But on the whole the Middle East has not seemed, even in recent years, to be a region for which the Canadian people and their government have felt a distinctively Canadian policy ought to be evolved. At the Commonwealth Defence Ministers' Conference of 1951, for example, when Middle Eastern questions dominated the agenda, Canada chose to be represented by an observer. Until recently Canada lacked the means for playing an influential part in Middle Eastern affairs. Before the establishment of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in 1952 no comparable facilities existed in Canada for training specialists in the area. And, perhaps consequently, it was not until 1954 that Canada was represented in the Middle East by its own diplomatic missions
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2022 (61) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |