Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Food for Thought: Multilateral Humanitarianism and the Somalia Crisis to March 1992

2 The Canadian Forces and the Recommendation to Stay out of Somalia

3 “Do Something Significant”: Government Reconsideration of the Somalia Crisis

4 The Humanitarian Airlift Takes Flight

5 Sticking with the (Wrong) Peacekeeping Mission

6 Problems with the Expanded UN Operation

7 Robust Multilateralism: Support for the Unified Task Force

8 Unified Task Force: Canada's First Post-Cold War Enforcement Coalition

9 Stay or Go? Weighing a Role in the Second UN Mission

10 The Canadian Joint Force Somalia: In the Field

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

An engaging read for scholars and those in the military, this book will also have wide appeal, especially since the events described were so controversial at the time (and arguably still now). It will likely be among the touchstone works in the evolving debate in the field, both challenging and challenged by other writers and historians. -- Chris Madsen, author of Another Kind of Justice: Canadian Military Law from Confederation to Somalia This is a first class study and an excellent resource for those interested in contemporary peace and security issues. The subject matters a great deal, not only because of the impact of the Somalia experience (and the ensuing inquiry) on subsequent Canadian military policies, but also because the Somalian operation posed challenges that since then have proven to be increasingly typical of 'peace enforcement' operations. -- Denis Stairs, founding Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University

About the Author

Grant Dawson has worked as a committee analyst at the Library of Parliament and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He teaches political science at Carleton and history at the University of Ottawa.