American Allies in Times of War: The Great Asymmetry

198 Pages·2013·1.48 MB·English

by  Stefanie von Hlatky

AMERICAN ALLIES IN TIMES OF WAR
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American Allies in

Times of War
Th e Great Asymmetry
STÉFANIE VON HLATKY
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À Phil, Ian, et Zac
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Acknowledgments

On September 11, 2001, my mother happened to be on assignment in
New York for Radio-Canada, while I was anxiously waiting for news at home.
On a personal level and as an aspiring political scientist, I was consumed with
thoughts about what that day would mean. It turns out that I spent more time
thinking about it than anticipated, way beyond my mother’s safe return to
Montréal. I began to study allied responses to 9/11 in graduate school, during
my postdoctoral fellowship, and continue to do so today, as a political studies
professor at Queen’s University in Canada. Completing this book is my big-
gest professional accomplishment to date. It is the culmination of an incred-
ible journey that allowed me the luxury of reading, teaching, and writing for
a living. I off er sincere thanks to my colleagues and friends who helped me
with the manuscript: T. V. Paul, Michel Fortmann, Jessica Trisko, Frédéric
Mérand, Walter Ladwig III, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Jim Doig, Lucia Antalova
Seybert, Jennifer Erickson, Richard Ned Lebow, William C. Wohlforth, Chris
Wohlforth, Stephen G. Brooks, James T. McHugh, Pierre Martin, Norrin
Ripsman, Steve Saideman, Marina Henke, Evan Resnick, Jason Davidson,
Christophe Chowanietz, Djallil Lounnas, Ginger DiGaetano, Andreas
Wenger, Alex Wilner, Jennifer Giroux, as well as the anonymous reviewers
whose feedback proved crucial. I have been fortunate to work with excep-
tional graduate students, namely Gaëlle Rivard Piché, Raphaël Zaff ran,
Aaron Ettinger, Véronique Dumais, Simon Hogue, and Audrey Reeves. I am
also grateful to all those whom I have interviewed in Ottawa, Canberra, and
London in 2008 and 2009.
Finally, I must acknowledge the precious support from the Fonds de
recherche du Québec, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, the Canadian Department of National Defence’s Security and Defence
Forum, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth
College, the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars, Women in International Security, the Center for Peace and
Security Studies at Georgetown University, the Center for Security Studies at
ETH Zürich, and the McGill–Université de Montréal Centre for International
Peace and Security. Over the years, I have leaned on close friends and fam-
ily. I can always rely on Katherine Porowski, Justine Laurier, and Véronique
Malo. I have great admiration for my mother, Kristina von Hlatky, and my
late grandmother, Dr Esther Leser, for their strength of character. I thank my
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father, John Udvarhelyi, for serious advice that is always delivered humor-
ously. I would like to express gratitude to Paul Jutras for looking aft er me, and
Lise Éthier for lively discussions and great food on de l’Esplanade. I dedicate
this book to my husband, Philippe Lacoursière, who is perfect in my eyes, and
our sons Ian and Zac, who are just like their father.
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Contents

List of Figures x i
List of Tables x iii
List of Abbreviations xv
1. Introduction: Why are Allies so Unpredictable? 1
2. A Th eory of Asymmetric Security Cooperation 26
3. Exceeding Expectations: Th e UK and the War on Terror 59
4. Canada–US Relations and the War on Terror 86
5. Australia: Regional Power, Global War 113
6. Conclusion: Overcoming the Great Asymmetry 138
Bibliography 1 53
Index 175
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