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JACK GRANATSTEIN
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Jack
Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto on 21 May 1939. He attended
Toronto public schools, Le College militaire royal de St-Jean (Grad.
Dipl., 1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A., 1961), the
University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University (Ph.D., 1966).
He served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined the History
Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where, after taking
early retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor of History
Emeritus. He was the Rowell Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute
of International Affairs (1996-2000) and is a member of the Royal
Military College of Canada Board of Governors (1997- ). From 1 July
1998 to 30 June 2000, he was the Director and CEO of the Canadian War
Museum in Ottawa. He was then Special Adviser to the Director of the
Museum (2000-01) and is now chair of the Museum’s Advisory Council
(2001- ).
Granatstein has held
the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-4, 1991-3),
was editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1981-84), and was
a founder of the Organization for the History of Canada. He has been a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1982 and in 1992 was
awarded the Society’s J.B. Tyrrell Historical Gold Medal "for
outstanding work in the history of Canada." His book, The Generals
(1993), won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian
Biography. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by Memorial
University of Newfoundland (1993), the University of Calgary (1994),
Ryerson Polytechnic University (1999), the University of Western
Ontario (2000), McMaster University (2000), and Niagara University
(2004). He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College (2000- ). The
Conference of Defence Associations Institute named him winner of the
Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field of Canadian
defence and security” (1996). Canada’s National History Society named
him the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004),
and he has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1997.
Granatstein writes
on 20th Century Canadian national history--the military, defence and
foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service,
politics, and the universities. He comments regularly on historical
questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and
television; he provided the historical commentary on the CBC's
coverage of the 50th and 60th anniversaries of D-Day (1994,
2004), V-E Day (1995), and V-J Day (1995); and he speaks frequently
here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films,
most recently “Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004).
In
1995 he served as one of three commissioners on the Special Commission
on the Restructuring of the Canadian Forces Reserves (chaired by the
Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada), and in 1997,
he advised the Minister of National Defence on the future of the
Canadian Forces. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the
Dominion Institute, an adjunct fellow of the University of Calgary’s
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (1997- ), and Chair of the
Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century (2001-4).
He is both a Board member (2004- ) and the Chair of the Advisory
Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-
).
His many scholarly
and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The
Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967), Peacekeeping:
International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), Canada's
War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-45 (1975,
1990), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime
(1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada
(1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A
Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981),
The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982,
1998), Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign (1984,
1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road
to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the
Conservative Party in Power (1985), Canada 1957-1967: The
Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The Collins
Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain's Weakness
Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989),
Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989), A
Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War (1989),
Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
(1990,1991) Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to
Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese
in World War II (1990; Japanese ed., 1994), For Better or For
Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (1991, 1992; new
expanded edition, Thomson Nelson, 2006), War and Peacekeeping:
From South Africa to the Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991),
Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The
Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World
War (1993, 1995; new edition, University of Calgary Press, 2005),
Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994),
Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995), The Good
Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home?
Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996, 1997), Petrified Campus:
Canada’s Universities in Crisis (1997, 1998), The Canadian 100:
The Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century
(1997, 1998), The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
(1998, 1999), Who Killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999),
Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998,
1999), Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers (1999,
2000), Our Century: The Canadian Journey (2000, 2001),
Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002, 2004),
First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Past (2003, 2004),
Canada and the Two World Wars (2003), The Importance of
Being Less Earnest: Promoting Canada’s National Interests through
Tighter Ties with the U.S. (2003), Who Killed the Canadian
Military? (2004; paper ed., 2004), Hell’s Corner: An
Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004), and Battle
Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004). He is
publishing The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada’s
Second World War (2005).
Granatstein is
married and lives in Toronto.
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JAMES
FERGUSSON
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Dr.
James Fergusson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and
Security Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of
Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. He received his
BA(Hons) and MA Degrees from the University of Manitoba, and his Ph.D.
from the University of British Columbia in 1989. He teaches a range of
courses in the areas of international relations, strategic studies,
and foreign and defence policy, with an emphasis on Canada. He has
published numerous articles in these areas, most recently "The
Coupling Paradox: Nuclear Weapons, Ballistic Missile Defence and the
Future of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship". NATO and European
Security: Alliance Politics from the End of the Cold War to the Age of
Terrorism Alexander Moens, et.al. ed.s Westport: Praeger:2003;
“Getting to 2020: The Canadian Forces and Future Force Structure and
Investment Considerations” Canadian Foreign Policy 9:3, Spring
2002. He is also one of the principal authors of To Secure a
Nation: The Case for a New Defence White Paper. Council for
Canadian Security in the 21st Century. November 2001. Dr. Fergusson is
a former NATO research fellow, who examined the implications of
ballistic missile defence for NATO and the trans-Atlantic
relationship.
In addition to his academic publications, Dr Fergusson has been
commissioned to write several reports for the Department of National
Defence and Department of Foreign Affairs. Among these reports, he has
written on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and co-authored
with Steve James the 2000 Space Appreciation for the
Directorate of Space Development. He annually participates in the
General and Senior Officer Space Indoctrination Course, the Canadian
Forces’ College Staff Officer and National Security Courses, and the
Air Force Staff Course in Winnipeg, and most recently addressed the
Canadian Air Force Symposium on Expeditionary Forces held at the
Canadian Forces' College in Toronto. Dr. Fergusson has testified on
several occasions to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and
International Trade and the Standing Committee on National Defence and
Veteran's Affairs, most recently on Canada and the question of
participation in the U.S. ballistic missile defence program for North
America.. He has also served on several panels of the Defence Science
Advisory Board, and is a member of the Defence Industrial Advisory
Committee.
Dr. Fergusson is currently completing a manuscript entitled Deja Vu
All Over Again: Canadian Policy from ABM and SDI, to NMD and Beyond.
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FRANK
HARVEY
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Frank P. Harvey is a Fulbright Scholar and the 2007
J. William Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Canadian Studies
at the State University of New York (Plattsburg). He is a Professor
of Political Science and International Relations and former Director
of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. His
books include Smoke and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the
Illusion of Multilateral Security (University of Toronto Press,
2004) — Shortlisted for the 2004/2005 Donner Book Prize; Millennial
Reflections on International Studies (co-edited with Michael
Brecher, University of Michigan Press, 2002), Using Force to
Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence
(with David Carment, Praeger, 2001), The International Politics of
Quebec Secession: State Making and State Breaking in North America
(co-edited with John Stack and David Carment, Greenwood Press, 2000),
Information Warfare and Security Policy (co-edited with Ann
Grifiths, 1999), Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study
of Crisis, War and Peace (with Ben Mor, Macmillan Press, 1998),
The Future's Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory and Crisis
Stability after The Cold War (McGill-Queen's, 1997).
He has published numerous articles on nuclear and conventional
deterrence, strategic stability, coercive diplomacy, crisis
decision-making, protracted ethnic conflict and national missile
defence in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict
Resolution, Journal of Politics, International Journal, Security
Studies, International Political Science Review, Conflict Management
and Peace Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian
Military Journal and others. His commentaries have appeared in
The Globe and Mail, National Post and Chronicle Herald
(Halifax). His current research interests include globalization and
terrorism, unilateral vs. multilateral approaches to security,
comparative multilateralism, WMD proliferation, U.S. and Canadian
foreign, security and defence policy, homeland and continental
security, ballistic missile defence, nuclear and conventional
deterrence, NATO military strategy and third-party intervention,
peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention. Professor Harvey received
Dalhousie's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence
in Teaching in 1998 and the Burgess Research Award in 2000. He was a
NATO Fellow from 1998-2000 and has received several research grants
from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the
Department of National Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade. He is the co-author of "To Secure a Nation:
Canadian Defence and Security in the 21st Century: The Case for a New
Defence White Paper" (prepared with Jim Fergusson and Rob Huebert for
the Council for Canadian Security).
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