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Mike’s World

Mike’s World

Lester B. Pearson and Canadian External Affairs

Edited by Asa McKercher and Galen Roger Perras

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

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9780774835305
Published: October 2017

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9780774835312
Published: October 2017

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This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, political science, and international relations. Accessibly written, it will appeal also to a more general audience.

Foreword / John English

Introduction: Lester Pearson and Canadian External Affairs / Asa McKercher and Galen Roger Perras

Part 1: The Pearsonian World

1 Pearson and Pearsonianism / Robert Bothwell

2 Pragmatic Peacekeeping: The Pearson Years / Michael K. Carroll

3 Pearson and the United Nations: Tracking the Stoicism of a Frustrated Idealist / Adam Chapnick

4 C’est la Guerre: The Diplomacy of Mike Pearson and Paul Martin / Greg Donaghy

5 Lester Pearson and the Substance of the Sixties / Stephen Azzi

Part 2: Pearson the Pragmatist

6 Lester Pearson, Human Rights, and the United Nations / Jennifer Tunnicliffe

7 Lester Pearson and Arctic Sovereignty: A Case of Un-Pearsonian Diplomacy / Peter Kikkert, Adam Lajeunesse, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

8 Not So Nobel: Arab Perceptions of Lester Pearson and Canada / Maurice Jr. M. Labelle

9 Friendly Noises but Distant Neighbours: Pearson, Latin America, and the Caribbean / John Dirks

10 A Long Goodbye: Pearson and Britain / Lara Silver

Part 3: Pearson the Idealist

11 A Cold Warrior? Pearson and the Soviet Bloc / Timothy Andrews Sayle

12 Commonwealth Conundrums: Canada and South Asia during the Pearson Era / Ryan Touhey

13 Pearson’s Promises and the NATO Nuclear Dilemma / Isabel Campbell

14 Pearson, France, and Quebec’s International Personality / Brendan Kelly

15 Pearson and Environmental Diplomacy / Norman Hillmer, Daniel Macfarlane, and Michael W. Manulak

Publications by Lester B. Pearson; Index

Asa McKercher is an assistant professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including Diplomatic History, International History Review, and Canadian Historical Review. He is also the author of Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era.

Galen Roger Perras is an associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His books include Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945 and Franklin Roosevelt and the Origins of the Canadian-American Security Alliance, 1933-1945: Necessary but Not Necessary Enough.

The essay format, where the authors are able to drill down deeply into many specific areas, helps illustrate many elements of Mr Pearson’s career which are likely unknown to even the most expert reader.
~Thomas S. Axworthy, Public Policy, Massey College, University of Toronto, International Journal