The Oumuamua Baton
The Zoom screen showed three faces and a metallic gray cylinder with a gold band near one end. Hamish MacBannock, head of the Centre, was speaking. Behind him on the screen could be seen a door opening on a room stacked high…
Farewell to a Raconteur
FOREIGN SERVICE FRIENDS OF ANDREW SHORE were shocked to learn of his sudden passing on 14 December 2020 in Ottawa.
The Selected Works of George R. Lindsey
WHO IS DR GEORGE LINDSEY? Why is he of interest?
Refugee Law After 9/11
OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR, YORK UNIVERSITY’S Inaugural Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, states that refugee laws and regimes in Canada and the USA “for the most part … reacted in strikingly similar ways to the heightened security vigil triggered by…
Resisting Rights
THAT CANADA IS A GLOBAL LEADER in the promotion and defence of human rights is widely acknowledged, perhaps more so outside of Canada than within. That Canada’s reputation in this field was once not just unhelpful, but downright obstructionist, is less well…
The Moscow Rules
CANADIANS WILL REMEMBER TONY MENDEZ as the CIA operative who assisted in the exfiltration of the “American guests” in Teheran in 1980. This book is about his background as the CIA’s master of disguise, inventing ways to meet Russians in Moscow at…
The Hungry Diplomat: Fries
FRIES. Hi everyone. It’s been a while. I’ve been posted to Brussels since we last spoke, so l’m looking forward to telling you all about the fabulous foodie treasure I’ve been
Diplomatic Uniforms
BRITAIN’S NEW AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE, Her Excellency Sally Axworthy, presented credentials in 2016 wearing a specially designed diplomatic uniform for female ambassadors. Diplomatic uniforms are a rarity these days, but the Vatican is one of the few postings where envoys are expected to wear full diplomatic dress for formal occasions. Anne Leahy, former […]
Bearing Witness
BY APRIL 2015, 16 MONTHS after the violent implosion of Juba, South Sudan’s civil war was plumbing new depths. Much of the war thus far had ranged the largely Dinka forces of the governmental army — the SPLA — against Nuer militias…
A Saner, Less Fragmented World in 2021
Only 20 years ago, Canadian diplomacy was at the front end of the post-Cold War effort to design and anchor new inclusive norms for international governance. Do we still have the stuff, the will and ability, to be a key player again?
