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Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67
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Michael Carroll
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 5/21/2009
ISBN: 9780774815819
$29.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2010
ISBN: 9780774815826
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About the Book
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. A crowning achievement in a distinguished career, the award also established Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation. Was this reputation earned, or do accounts of Canadian peacekeeping reside in the realm of national myths that obscure complex historical realities?
Pearson’s Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a comprehensive account of the UN’s first major peacekeeping operation. The UNEF eased tensions and kept peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border for more than a decade. Yet peacekeeping has never been easy, and this mission was no exception: it faced tremendous challenges in its creation, its funding, and during daily operations. And the UN’s inability to imagine, let along manage, the withdrawal of peacekeeping paved the way for further hostilities between Israel and Egypt during the Six Day War.
By providing a nuanced account of Canada’s participation in the UNEF, this book not only challenges perceived notions of Canada’s past, it helps to more accurately evaluate international peacekeeping efforts in the present. It will appeal to students of history and political science and to veterans and general readers interested in peacekeeping, the Middle East, international diplomacy, and Canadian military and diplomatic history.
About the Author(s)
Michael K. Carroll is an SDF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Pearson’s Ambiguous Legacy / Robert Bothwell
Acronyms
Introduction
1 Prelude to Suez
2 The Steep Hill of Suez
3 Blessed Are the Peacekeepers ... Even the Canadians
4 Let the Fun(ding) Begin: Financing UNEF, 1956-63
5 Ad Hoc Ad Infinitum: Financing UNEF, 1963-67
6 Peace by Piece: UNEF on the Ground
7 The Forgotten Army
8 Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen: The Withdrawal of UNEF, May-June 1967
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Pearson’s Peacekeepers brilliantly sums up the significance of the UNEF experience, which was both a failure and a wonderful achievement. Carroll’s book is a major original contribution to the field. He shows that, although a so-called "classic" example of peacekeeping, UNEF has far more relevance to current Canadian operations in response to international crises than is generally thought.
-- W.A.B. Douglas, official historian of the Canadian Armed Forces and author of the historical report for the Department of National Defence, in 1973, on the evacuation of the UNEF
The creation of UNEF, especially Pearson’s role, recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize, is an important episode in the history of Canadian foreign policy that has entered national mythology. Carroll’s engagingly written book-- the first devoted to the subject -- not only addresses the politics and diplomacy of UNEF in the various world capitals and New York, but also provides a strong overview of the nuts and bolts of raising and sustaining the force, as well as a good look at what the peacekeepers in the desert faced.
-- Joseph Jockel, author of Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007: A History
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
History > Canada
History > Military
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