{"title":"Sovereignty Sensitivities and the Kosovo Crisis: The Impact of Domestic Considerations on Canada's Foreign Policy","authors":"Krenare Recaj","doi":"10.3138/cjh-56-2-2020-0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh-56-2-2020-0076","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1999, Canada participated in NATO's Operation Allied Force, a seventy-eight-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia meant to end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. Officially, Canada's interests in developing its foreign policy toward Kosovo were humanitarian and regional stability considerations. These were shared with the rest of its NATO allies. Thus, on the surface, it would seem that Canada and its NATO allies had similar concerns during the decision-making process around Kosovo. Digging deeper, an analysis of the primary sources available suggests that Canada did, in fact, have additional and unique considerations during the Kosovo crisis, namely national unity. This analysis amply illustrates the close interconnection between domestic issues and Canadian foreign policy. During the Kosovo War, Canada had to balance sovereignty sensitivities with humanitarian concerns. From the first time Kosovo was mentioned in Parliament on 18 November 1991 to the end of the Kosovo War on 11 June 1999, Canadian parliamentarians attempted to distinguish what Canada's views on Kosovo were. Historians have likewise been occupied with the same task: distinguishing the Canadian contribution and position. Like the parliamentarians, not one of the Canadian historians who has written on the topic has questioned the official government version of what motivated Canada's policy in Kosovo. They all credit a combination of humanitarian and regional concerns. Therefore, there was consensus at the time, and has been since, about what motivated Canada's policy toward Kosovo. However, an analysis of the primary sources reveals that Canada did in fact have an additional and unique consideration during the Kosovo crisis: national unity. Canada's domestic national unity issue influenced Canadian foreign policy toward Kosovo at every stage.Résumé:En 1999, le Canada a participé à l'opération Force alliée de l'OTAN, une campagne de bombardement de 78 jours contre la Yougoslavie visant à mettre fin au nettoyage ethnique des Albanais du Kosovo. Officiellement, les intérêts du Canada en développant sa politique étrangère envers le Kosovo reposaient sur des considérations humanitaires et de stabilité régionale, lesquelles étaient partagées par ses alliés de l'OTAN. Ainsi, à première vue, le Canada et ses alliés aurait eu des préoccupations semblables au cours du processus décisionnel concernant le Kosovo. Or en y regardant de plus près, des sources primaires disponibles laissent entendre qu'en fait, le Canada avait en outre une autre préoccupation pendant la crise du Kosovo, soit l'unité nationale. La présente analyse illustre amplement les liens entre les questions internes et la politique étrangère du Canada. Pendant la guerre du Kosovo, le Canada a dû trouver un équilibre entre la corde sensible de la souveraineté et les préoccupations humanitaires. Depuis la première mention du Kosovo au Parlement, le 18 novembre 1991, jusqu'à la fin de la guerre, le 11 juin","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"56 1","pages":"136 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46189013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Luanda e Sua Gente, Cidade Feiticeira: Representations of an Eternal Empire","authors":"A. Ramos","doi":"10.3138/cjh-56-2-2021-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh-56-2-2021-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After World War I, cinema emerged as a powerful instrument of (counter) information for the colonial cause in the service of the European colonial powers, and Portugal was no exception. In fact, the use of cinema by the Portuguese authorities for colonial propaganda is the subject of this article. The aim of this study is to show how the post-war \"winds of change\" shifted the paradigm of the Portuguese colonial cinema by comparing the representation of Luanda in two colonial films about Angola produced in the 1950s and 1970s: Luanda, Cidade Feiticeira, (1950) and Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectively.Résumé:Après la Première Guerre mondiale, le cinéma est devenu un puissant instrument de (contre-) information pour la cause coloniale au service des puissances coloniales européennes, y compris au Portugal. Le présent article porte sur l'utilisation du cinéma par les autorités portugaises comme outil de la propagande coloniale. Il vise à montrer comment les « vents du changement » de l'après-guerre ont modifié le paradigme du cinéma colonial portugais en comparant la représentation de Luanda dans deux films coloniaux sur l'Angola produits dans les années 1950 et 1970 : Luanda Cidade Feiticeira (1950) et Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectivement.","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"56 1","pages":"110 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41371186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"M. Hunter, The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment","authors":"K. Morris","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41441484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A. Prosperi; translated by J. Carden, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe","authors":"C. Neville","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br01","url":null,"abstract":"Rubin offers a compact review of recent turns in urban history. Yet she makes a strong argument for an engaged history that traces lines and parallels while steering clear of a diluted and delusional uniformity across time, and her casting of women as migrants in both urbs and civitas picks up brilliantly on Christine Klapisch-Zuber ’ s characterization of them as “ passing guests ” in their households. The rich apparatus of notes and bib-liography is almost as long as the book ’ s text, testifying to the scholarly weight of research undergirding it and underscoring the current realities that have drawn a host of scholars to the challenge of understanding medieval and early modern migrations.","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48522127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C. Harris, A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada","authors":"B. Hoy","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46151047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R. Mesch, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"Todd W. Reeser","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44644987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L.R. Zarnow, Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug","authors":"Tamar W Carroll","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47861838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A. Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago","authors":"David Moffette","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46198567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R.R. Reese, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917","authors":"J. Lalande","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43415270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"P.H.D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era","authors":"Lacey Baradel","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56.2-br13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56.2-br13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45705171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}