Why Canada Goes to War
Explaining Combat Participation in US-led Coalitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6235876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenne Massie (0000-0003-3255-0026, Université du Québec à Montréal, corresponding author), Justin Massie |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 575-594 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423919000040 |
| OpenAlex | W2943712860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 50 |
Canada has taken part in six wars since 1945, all of which have been conducted under US leadership. Despite such military interventionism, there have been no systematic comparative analyses of Canada's decisions to take part in US-led wars. The objective of this article is to develop and test a theoretical framework about why Canada goes to war. More specifically, it seeks to account for variations in Canada's provision of combat forces to multinational interventions led by the United States. It assesses leading theoretical explanations by examining five post–Cold War cases: the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya; the war against ISIS; and the refusal to take part in the invasion of Iraq. The article concludes that Canada's willingness to go to war is shaped primarily by a desire to maintain transatlantic alliance unity and enhance Canada's alliance credibility. Threats to national security, the legitimacy of the intervention, government ideology and public opinion are not found to consistently or meaningfully shape Canadian decisions to take part in US-led wars
Alliance · Credibility · Government (linguistics · Ideology · International relations · Interventionism (politics · Legitimacy · Multinational corporation · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Public Administration
America's Allies and War
Mapping Policy Preferences
Disarmed Democracies
From Middle Power to Peacebuilder
Allies That Count
Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe
Partisan Interventions
Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict
Francosphère
Collective Action
Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe
Democratic Participation in the Air Strikes Against Islamic State
Why Democratic Allies Defect Prematurely
Alliance Value and Status Enhancement
Obama’s leadership style
Why do states join US-led military coalitions
Ideology, ballots, and alliances
Nato Burden-Sharing Redux
What's Stopping You
In or out? Canada, the Netherlands, and support to the invasion of Iraq
Friends in Need
Bringing democracy back in
Explaining states’ burden-sharing behaviour within Nato
National Behaviour in Multilateral Military Operations
Nato Burden Sharing in Libya
Public critic or secretive monitor
Time to Fight
Hierarchy and Community at Home and Abroad
Politics or the Economy? Domestic Correlates of Dispute Involvement in Developed Democracies
Explaining Wars of Choice
Burden-sharing in the Persian Gulf War
Government Responsiveness and Political Competition in Comparative Perspective
Left/Right Ideology and Canadian Politics
Canada and the Kosovo Crisis
War and the Survival of Political Leaders
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
A Seat at the Table
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |