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Eayrs, James George If you have images associated with this Person, please contact us at admin@nauticapedia.ca

Title	Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
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Birth	13/10/1926	Death	(nk)
Place	London	Place	(nk)
Area	UK	Area	(nk)
Country	Canada	Country	(nk)

Titles
Honours	OC.
Awards	FRSC;
Qualifications	PhD;

Biography
He a professor at Dalhousie University, he is a pioneer in the study and teaching of Canadian military-political history. The author of the series In Defence of Canada, considered the most authoritative published works on post-1914 Canadian foreign policy, he is best known as the former long-time co-editor of the International Journal of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He was educated at U of T, Columbia and London School of Economics, Eayrs was Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Political Science and Government at Dalhousie. He taught at U of T 1952-1980 and Dalhousie U 1980-1992 and was editor of International Journal, 1959-1984.

Biography

He a professor at Dalhousie University, he is a pioneer in the study and teaching of Canadian military-political history. The author of the series In Defence of Canada, considered the most authoritative published works on post-1914 Canadian foreign policy, he is best known as the former long-time co-editor of the International Journal of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He was educated at U of T, Columbia and London School of Economics, Eayrs was Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Political Science and Government at Dalhousie. He taught at U of T 1952-1980 and Dalhousie U 1980-1992 and was editor of International Journal, 1959-1984.

Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1944. (He was demobilized.)

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Anecdotes
He is described as "A superb stylist and an influential pioneer in the study of 20th-century Canadian foreign and defence policy, his major scholarly publications include The Art of the Possible (1961) and In Defence of Canada (5 vols, 1964-83). Eayrs's reputation outside the university world rests upon his controversial journalism and public commentary on Canadian and international affairs, selections of which are collected in Northern Approaches (1961), Minutes of the Sixties (1968) and Greenpeace and her Enemies (1973). His early journalism displays a pro-NATO, Cold War liberal sympathetic to the US. The 1960s and 1970s saw him an opponent of NATO, an advocate of Canadian neutrality and a harsh critic of diplomats and diplomacy. He received the MOLSON PRIZE in 1984. "

Anecdotes

He is described as "A superb stylist and an influential pioneer in the study of 20th-century Canadian foreign and defence policy, his major scholarly publications include The Art of the Possible (1961) and In Defence of Canada (5 vols, 1964-83). Eayrs's reputation outside the university world rests upon his controversial journalism and public commentary on Canadian and international affairs, selections of which are collected in Northern Approaches (1961), Minutes of the Sixties (1968) and Greenpeace and her Enemies (1973). His early journalism displays a pro-NATO, Cold War liberal sympathetic to the US. The 1960s and 1970s saw him an opponent of NATO, an advocate of Canadian neutrality and a harsh critic of diplomats and diplomacy. He received the MOLSON PRIZE in 1984. "

References
Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD);
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2015-06-08 00:00:00

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Eayrs, James George