Australia, Canada, and Iraq (eBook)

Ramesh Thakur is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Responsibility to Protect Commissioner. Currently the director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the Crawford School, Australian National University, he has served as an adviser for governments and international bodies. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Jack Cunningham is the program coordinator of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto.

Contents


Introduction
Jack Cunningham and Ramesh Thakur
1.Staying Out of Iraq
Reflections by the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien 
2.We Were Right to Invade Iraq
The Right Honourable John Howard 
3.Parliamentary Democracies at War: A Panel Discussion 
4.The Shock of the Iraq War, and Awe at the Lingering Effects of the Folly
Ramesh Thakur 
5.The Iraq Invasion and U.S.-U.N. Relations
Roger Coate 
6.The U.S. Alliance of Strategic Cousins
John Blaxland 
7.Australia’s International Deployments in Historical Perspective
William Maley 
8.War and the Canadian Liberal Conscience
John English 
9.Why Australia Invaded Iraq: A Study in Alliance Management
Hugh White 
10.Cheerleaders of Folly: Australia’s Misguided Attempt to be a Good Ally
Charles Sampford 
11.Taking the Off-Ramp: Canadian Diplomacy, Intelligence, and Decision-Making before the Iraq War
Timothy Andrews Sayle 
12.Toujours la Politesse? The “Impolite No” on Iraq in Historical Perspective
Kim Richard Nossal 
13.The Politics of Disarmament: Canada and the Invasion of Iraq, 2002-03
Jack Cunningham

14.Australian Public Opinion Toward the Iraq War
Ian McAllister
Appendix
Index