Called to Account
As Liebnitz passed the doors of the Centre’s highly regarded journal, Aide mémoire, he overheard the far-from-dulcet tones of its subeditor, Rialto Sleazewagon, in mid-tirade. “And whose brainless idea was it to make Jimmy the Turk our treasurer in the first place?…
Sandino: The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934; After the Fire’s Gone Out: The Legacy of a Revolution; Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega; Intervention or Neglect: The United States and Central American Beyond the 1980s
L’Amérique centrale et son prolongement : le Panama a été par excellence une terre d’intervention des Etats-Unis durant ce siècle. Les quatre livres que nous examinons, si différents soient-ils, s’inscrivent dans cette réalité.
Sherwood Lett. His Life and Times
La biographie, un exercice difficile que peu parviennent à maîtriser, est à la mode. Du côté de la pire mixture dans le genre, les lecteurs rencontreront l’amateurisme partisan d’un Michel Vastel, traitant d’un Pierre E. Trudeau. Par contre, le travail sur Sherwood…
The Changing Soviet Union: Implications for Canada and the World; Soviet Economic Policy Under Perestroika; The Soviet High Command 1967-1989: Personalities and Politics; The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy and the Disintegration of the USSR; The Changing Western Analysis of the Soviet Threat
Writing in The New York Review of Books last November, Peter Reddaway suggested that works of Sovietology published before the failed August coup would now invariably be judged by how far they pointed to, or least allowed for, perestroika’s abrupt dénouement in…
The People of Nowhere
Danny Rubinstein’s recently-published The People of Nowhere will be a valuable source of information and analysis on a contentious subject. Books on the Middle East tend to have strong emotional content reflecting their authors’ political convictions. It is refreshing that Rubinstein has…
Back to Basics
Senior management at External Affairs and International Trade Canada has embraced a “back to basics” approach to foreign policy. This means that frivolous add-on overseas programs, such as immigration, sports, culture and wine-tasting, which do not correspond to the Department’s core function…
Seriez-vous un bon diplomate
Êtes-vous bien dans votre peau, cher collègue? Quelle est votre véritable vocation? Découvrez-la à travers le test qui suit. Il a d’abord été conçu par des professionnels de divers rangs diplomatiques dont à l’origine l’ambassadeur portugais, Luis Da Cunha, personnage au pseudonyme…
John Alexander McCordick
Jack was an accomplished linguist in Russian, German, Spanish and French. He served in the Intelligence Corps in World War II. Joining External Affairs in 1943, he was posted immediately to the Embassy in Kuibyshev, to which diplomatic missions had been evacuated…
Sydney David Pierce, O.B.E.
Syd trained at McGill in economics and was a runner on the Canadian team on the 1925 Olympics. After a career as a journalist and businessman, he served with the Department of Munitions and Supply in Washington from 1940-44. He then joined…
Petits croquis de Beijing
Le monde a changé : le marché de la soie de Beijing (qui se répand continuellement dans les allées et sur les trottoirs d’un quartier central), est régulièrement pris d’assaut par de jeunes capitalistes russes à l’allure déterminée et armés d’énormes sacs.…
