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Hector Mackenzie
Bio: Hector Mackenzie is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internationalism (politics) & Diplomatic history. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 15 citations.
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Journal Article•
8 citations
TL;DR: The notion of a bygone lustrous period in the history of Canada's international relations permeates memoirs and biographies of Canadian diplomats, scholarly literature, journalism and popular commentary.
Abstract: The notion of a bygone lustrous period in the history of Canada's international relations permeates memoirs and biographies of Canadian diplomats, scholarly literature, journalism and popular commentary. This image has become a central icon in a nationalist pantheon, a vital myth about Canada's exceptionalism, its purported international mission and its supposed primordial internationalism. Moreover, the greater past has become the standard by which the lesser present has been judged and found wanting. This paper raises doubts about the validity of this depiction of the past, particularly the characterisation of Canadian motives and achievements in world affairs during and after the Second World War, and poses questions about the purposes to which this misrepresentation of Canada's diplomatic history has been put in more recent times.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a co-authorship statement, acknowledgements, and a table of the authors' co-authors' coauthors and acknowledgements for their work.
Abstract: ............................................................................................................................. ii Co-Authorship Statement .................................................................................................. iv Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................. v Table of
105 citations
Dissertation•
02 Sep 2014
TL;DR: Acknowledgements and dedications are given in this paper, with a Table of Table of Contents... Table 1.., Table 2, Table 3, and Table 4.
Abstract: .................................................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................ iv Dedication .............................................................................................................................................. vii Table of
18 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the Trudeau government's response to the 1969-70 voyages of the oil tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage and reveal the promise of re-examining Canadian international history through the prism of environmental history.
Abstract: This essay brings environmental and diplomatic history into conversation in order to examine the Trudeau government’s response to the 1969-70 voyages of the oil tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage. By passing the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act and extending Canada’s territorial sea to 12 miles, Ottawa successfully instrumentalized the heightened environmental concern of the period in order to press Canadian claims to sovereignty in the Arctic. The essay demonstrates that this custodial approach was consistent with the functionalist tradition in Canadian liberal internationalism. More broadly, it reveals the promise of re-examining Canadian international history through the prism of environmental history.
15 citations
TL;DR: The early twenty-first century witnessed a shift in Canadian international action, how such action is portrayed, and how Canada's international history is deployed to understand Canada and its evolution as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The early twenty-first century witnessed a shift in Canadian international action, how such action is portrayed, and how Canada's international history is deployed to understand Canada and its evolution. This shift has contributed to a growing awareness of the intellectual and political significance of Canada's international history and a heightened awareness of the need for a re-engagement with this history to produce more complex narratives. Demonstrating and encouraging such a re-engagement is the purpose of this historiographical article, which traces the writing of Canadian international history from its origins to a period of crisis in the last three decades of the twentieth century. In so doing, it explores how “empire” and its legacy run through this historiography's various overlapping currents. Flowing from this discussion, the article highlights three “tragedies” that have marked the historiography and that are reflective of, and linked to, tragedies in the history of Canadian encounters with t...
15 citations