Robert Teigrob . Warming Up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea . Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press . 2009 . Pp. viii, 288. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robert Teigrob's book attempts to put Canada's early Cold War history and the relationship between Canada and the United States in the context of popular culture. Five major and readable chapters concentrate on the atomic bomb, espionage (the Igor Gouzenko affair), the Third World (Philippines and India), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and finally the Korean War (or at least the issue of Canadian participation in the Korean War in 1950). With background information also provided, the chapters concentrate on the importance of newspaper and magazine analysis from 1945 to 1950. Two strong academic views have been evident in histories of Canadian foreign policy of the period: Canadian politicians rather tamely followed the leadership of the United States in like-minded strategies of containment; or Canada worked within international organizations and utilized diplomacy to constrain or influence the more adventurous foreign policies of the United States (i.e., containing the United States as much as the Soviet Union). Teigrob's book accepts Canada's subservience in foreign policy matters to the United States but highlights the Canadian domestic environment of this support. Canada provided its own rationale for sitting alongside the United States in the containment of the Soviet Union. For Teigrob, the explanation lies in aspects of popular culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".