Canadian - Historian | December 23, 1943 -
Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner.
Margaret MacMillan
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History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
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The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.
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I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.
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It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with the wider world.
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American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.
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The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
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Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
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As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.
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It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.
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The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.
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Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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