Qui a tué Jacques Noir?
When Effie came to say that Jacques Noir was dead, I was looking at a 3-D version of Magritte’s “Trahison des Images,” Paradox always gives me a headache, but at least I could still feel the pain.
Into the Raucous Caucasus
They are names synonymous with the ethnic conflict, terrorism and violence which exploded in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War – Nagorno-Karabakh, Abhkhazia, Chechnya, North and South Ossetia, Beslan. While the collapse of the Soviet Union was calamitous economically…
Alexander (of Macedon) in Afghanistan
With Canada engaged in what seems like a long-term commitment in Afghanistan, comparisons have been drawn with the past experience of other western armies in this now poor and always warlike country. The examples most readily at hand are the unhappy experiences…
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
There is virtually no foreign affairs content in the latest, and by far the best, book about professor Harold Innis. Nevertheless Innis life profoundly affected Canada’s political and economic development. His influence will be as permanent on our lives as anything can…
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
Michael Gunter began his review of this book in The Middle East Journal by saying:
The Berlin Assignment
Adrian de Hoog’s first novel, The Berlin Assignment is a very good read, well crafted and smartly written as it follows an FS officer who returns to Berlin 25 years after his postgraduate studies there. His coming back sets off clouded in…
Pearson’s Prize: Canada and the Suez Crisis
Over the last few years, it has become almost de rigueur for world weary policymakers and hip international analysts to dismiss Pearsonian peacekeeping as quaintly old-fashioned. In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, peacekeeping has been replaced by peace building and peace enforcement…
Diplomatie vice-royale en Afrique
La visite de la Gouverneure générale du Canada la très honorable Michaëlle Jean en Algérie, au Mali, au Ghana, en Afrique du Sud et au Maroc, du 18 novembre au 11 décembre 2006, restera longtemps gravée dans nos mémoires.
Ronning Amok?
On New Year’s Day, 1969, Pierre Trudeau was interviewed by Norman Depoe for the CBC. In the course of their discussion, the Prime Minister casually questioned the justification for diplomatic representation in the modern world and he suggested that much of what…
