Aronsen, Larry
Dr Larry Aronsen
(Professor)
Ph.D. University of Toronto
M.A. Simon Fraser University
B.A. University of British Columbia
2-50 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-5312
| Expertise & Research Interests |
20th Century American Foreign Policy
After working for the Department of National Defence on a recent leave my current research interests have shifted to Canadian intelligence history and intelligence relations with the United States. My most recent publication in "Intelligence and National Security" examines Canadian threat assessments of the Soviet Union in the late 1940s.
I am currently editing a collection of essays to be published as the "Canadian Intelligence Reader."
| Teaching |
HIST 112: Modern World History
HIST 220: World History Since 1750
HIST 350: American History to 1865
HIST 351: American History since 1865
HIST 355: History of United States Foreign Relations
HIST 359: Twentieth Century America
HIST 453 American History: The 1960s Revolt
HIST 458: Topics in American Foreign Relations:
Cold War National Security Policy
HIST 498: Directed Readings
HIST 658: American Nuclear Weapons Doctrine, 1945-1991
HIST 659: American National Security Policy and
Economic Relations with Canada, 1941-1953
| Publications |
Books/Monographs:
American National Security and Economic Relations with Canada, 1945-1954 (Praeger Press, 1997), 234 pp.
The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: American,British, and Canadian Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941-1948 (with Martin Kitchen) Macmillan, 1988, 232 pp.
Books edited:
with Brian McKercher, The North Atlantic Triangle in a Changing World : Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1902-1956 (University of Toronto Press, 1986, 303 pp.
Refereed articles and book chapters:
“Seeing Red: U.S. Air Force Assessments of the Soviet Union, 1945-1949,” Intelligence and National Security 16 (Summer 2001), 35 ms. Pages
“The Economic Foundations of the Cold War Alliance Systems, 1945-1953,” in
Brian McKercher and Michael Hennessy, eds., 20th Century War: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the fin de siecle (New York, Praeger Press, 2000), pp. 36 ms.
“The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance and the Origins of the Cold War,” in Lloyd Lee, ed., World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the Postwar World, (Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 436-453.
“From World War to Cold War: Cooperation and Competition in the North Atlantic Triangle, 1945-1949,” in B.J.C. McKercher and Lawrence Aronsen eds., The North Atlantic Triangle in a Changing World, 1996, pp. 184-219.
“Conclusion” in above cited work, pp. 256-266.
“Canadian-American Relations, 1914-1918,” in Anne Cipriano Venzon, ed., Garland Encyclopedia of American War: The First World War, 1995, pp. 122-25.
“A Leading Arsenal of Democracy: American Re-armament and the Continental Integration of the Canadian Aircraft Industry, 1948-1953,” International History Review (Fall 1991),pp. 481-501.
“An Open Door to the North: The Liberal Government and American Foreign Investment, 1945-1953,” The American Review of Canadian Studies (Winter 1991),pp. 167-198.
“Peace, Order, and Good Government During the Cold War: The Origins and Organization of Canada’s Internal Security Program,” Intelligence and National Security I (September 1986), pp. 357-80.
“Canada's Economic Planning for War: The Industrial Defence Board, 1948-1951,” American Review of Canadian Studies XV (Spring 1985), pp. 38-58.
“American National Security and the Defence of the Northern Frontier, 1945-1951,” Canadian Review of American Studies 14 (Fall 1983), pp. 259-77.
“The 'New Frontier': Postwar Perceptions of the China Market, 1943- 1950,” Mid-America 64 (January 1982), pp. 17-32.
“From World War to Limited War: Canadian-American Industrial Mobilization for Defence,” Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire (Spring 1982), pp. 208-45.
“Canada's Postwar Rearmament: Another Look at American Theories of the Military-Industrial Complex,” Canadian Historical Association Papers, 1981, pp. 175-96.
“Imperialism and Dependency: Some Reflections on Canadian-American Economic Relations,1945-1957,” Bulletin of Canadian Studies IV (Spring 1980), pp. 23-37.