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Science Marine Biology

Icy Battleground

Canada the IFAW and the Seal Hunt

by (author) Donald Barry

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Apr 2005
Category
Marine Biology, Environmental Science, Environmental Policy
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550812947
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing protests, the emergence of the Inte ational Fund for Animal Welfare, its vigorous and unrelenting campaign to end commercial sealing, and its strategies in mobilising pressure in Canada and abroad. It also assesses the Canadian gove ment's counter-strategies to continue the hunt as well as the challenges that emotionally targeted campaigns like the seal hunt pose for gove ment decision-makers.

About the author

Donald Barry is a professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He holds a B.A. from St. Francis Xavier University, an M.A. from Dalhousie University, and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His books include Canada's Department of External Affairs: Coming of Age, 1946-1968, with John Hilliker (1995); Toward a North American Community? Canada, the United States, and Mexico (1995), and Regionalism, Multilateralism, and the Politics of Global Trade, with Ronald C. Keith (1999).

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