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…
Escape from Germany
THE SUBTITLE OF ESCAPE FROM GERMANY could well be “the story of Pete Anderson, a genuine Canadian hero”. Through meticulous research conducted over 40 years, Jensen ably makes the case in his commendable biography that Anderson is an exceptional Canadian well worth…
Diplomat, Dissident, Spook
WRITING IN THE TORONTO STAR many years ago, James Eayrs, the then-celebrated University of Toronto political scientist, described the induction ritual for newly minted Foreign Service Officers with his usual provocative flourish. Probationary officers, he wrote, were led to a chamber in…
Potholes and Politics
JOHN GRAHAM HAS BEEN DOODLING all his life, his sketching stretching from Soviet missiles in Cuba at the height of cold war to lethal potholes in Manor Park in the depth of cold winter.
Re-imagining Capitalism
Mumbai is a late night town. Typically, Bollywood does not start work until late in the afternoon. Business dinners start at 10 p.m. Visiting Canadian ministers are often not received at Varsha, the chief minister’s official guest house, until even later.
Governance and Innovation in Africa
THIS BOOK MOVES from overview pieces to essays dealing in greater depth with key challenges. Demographic change, education and youth merit three separate chapters, acknowledging their centrality to South Africa’s future. Unemployment, the plight of women and children, health, safety and security…
Dip Doodles
IT IS WELL known that Foreign Services recruit ‘well oriented people’ to represent their country abroad. Being well oriented means having a broad range of interests — usually accompanied by grains of sensibility and wit.
