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Canadian Gunboat Diplomacy: The Canadian Navy & Foreign Policy


  Edited by Ann Griffiths, Richard Gimblett and Peter Haydon

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies
November 2000
CDN $25.00


Table of Contents

  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction
    Richard H. Gimblett
  • Keynote Address
    Wagging the Dog: How Canada has
    Influenced the Exercise of Sea Power
    W.A.B Douglas

Part One

  • In Whose Interests? The Royal Canadian Navy
    and Naval Diplomacy in El Salvador, 1932

    Serge Durflinger
  • Canada's Pacific Carriers: A Study of
    Manipulation and Neglect, 1943-1950

    Michael A. Hennessy
  • Canadian Gunboat Cresent and the Chinese Civil War, 1949
    Richard H. Gimblett
  • The Evolution of the Canadian Naval Task Group
    Peter T. Haydon
  • Foreign Policy and Naval Forces: A Canadian Perspective
    Bruce Fenton
  • Maple Leaf Over the Caribbean: Gunboat Diplomacy Canadian Style?
    Sean M. Maloney
  • The Canadian Maritime Contribution to Peace-Support Operations
    Douglas S. Thomas

Part Two

  • Canada's Naval Strategy: The Record and the Prospects
    Nicholas Tracy
  • The Political Uses of Medium Power Navies
    Fred Crickard and Gregory L. Witol
  • The Canadian Naval Task Group
    David Morse
  • The Politics of Arctic Security: In Search of a Canadian Arctic
    Maritime Security Policy

    Rob Huebert
  • Confidence Building at Sea
    David Griffiths
  • The Roles of Navies in the 21st Century
    John H. Noer
  • Toward a New Balance for the Canadian Forces
    Peter Jones
  • The New Naval Vision and Instruments of Foreign Policy
    John Dewar
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