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JACK GRANATSTEIN

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.
 

JAMES FERGUSSON

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.
 

FRANK HARVEY

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).
 

April 2008
Stephen Harper is Mackenzie King

  by Jack Granatstein

Now Available:
Spring 2008 Edition of
"The Dispatch"

 

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