Bugbyte and the Greatest Game
with ochre Siime dripping dowr green and purple velvet. Overhead, mirror-balls randomly reflected laser beams through a drifting fog, reeking of stale Saturday nights and old gym socks. Underfoot, flaccid creatures scurried on too many scaly legs through decaying food and the…
Kenneth Bryce Williamson
As a young officer in 1955 I was assigned to work for Ken Williamson in the Eastern European section of European division. Because my older sister had been one of his classmates I was aware of his brilliant academic record at the…
Don Collier
Don Collier was a foreign service officer who was happiest when on a posting. His love of travel and seeing the world began soon after he discovered studying engineering did not play to his strengths. Working at the university radio station did…
Janet Graham
A Personal and Professional Tribute by Michael Dawson given at the Good Shephard Wakefield Anglican Church, November 18, 2009.
In the lands of “the coming anarchy”
I the early 19903, as communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union disintegrated bringing the Cold War to an end, a number of eminent thinkers suggested new paradigms of our global future. These included Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History,…
Dark Age of Diplomacy
One does not expect a barbarian warlord — especially one who secured his control over Italy by bisecting his rival with a sword during a state dinner — to maintain an active foreign policy of constructive engagement, through skillful diplomacy with his…
Difficult Dinners
by Mary Taylor liplomats eat a lot of dinners. so ot course do we all but diplomatic dinners are a little different. On these occasions formally dressed people are usually served elaborate food, often in the company of those they barely know…
Guerrilla Diplomacy
Editor’s Note: Daryl Copeland, a colleague and committed critic of Canadian diplomacy currently with the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto, paid the Pearson Building a visit on September 20, 2009. At the invitation of PAFSO’s Professional Committee, he addressed a…
A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War
I read General Rick Hillier’s A Soldier First with mixed feelings. I was impressed that our popular General came out with a book on his experience so soon after retirement, but I was disappointed that he did not explain his own role…
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
If you read only one book on intelligence this year, make it The Secret Sentry by Matthew M.
