Declassified
REMEMBER THE TIME the retired ambassadors got together in the backyard? It was just gone summer. A nip in the air, but there was a nice fire going. What a night. And the stories! April told the one about Castro getting schooled…
Makers of Modern Asia
ASIA’S SEEMINGLY INEXORABLE rise has, to a considerable extent, been the story of its economic transformation. In Makers of Modern Asia, editor Ramachandra Guha argues that political factors were the necessary conditions for this emergence. He gathers leading historians and political analysts…
Running on Empty
RUNNING ON EMPTY is the most recent addition to the prestigious McGill-Queen’s collection of Studies in (Canadian) Ethnic History. This impressive tome recounts the intriguing story of Canada’s response to the Indochinese refugee crises from 1975 to 1980. Proposed by retired diplomat…
O.D. Skelton
Those who glance at the historic plaque dedicated to Oscar Douglas Skelton in the Skelton Lobby of the Pearson Building may ask themselves what else there was in the life of this long-departed figure of External Affairs lore. After many years of…
Pacific
Simon Winchester takes us on a voyage through cross-currents of regional geopolitics, environment, technology, and culture.
GRIT
He was a minister unlike any other. His hopes and fears, anxieties and disappointments, were ever on the surface. Neither French – or Québécois – enough for the pundits in Montreal nor English enough for the Anglo-Canadian establishment. A progressive liberal and…
Superforecasting
On August 17, 2007, George Soros hosted twenty of Wall Street’s most senior financiers to lunch at his Long Island estate. Earlier in the month, BNP Paribas had frozen withdrawals from three of its funds and central bankers around the world were…
Points of Entry
CANADA’S IMMIGRATION OFFICERS DECIDE WHO GETS IN, by Vic Satzewich, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 305 pp, $32.95 paper
« What Would You Say? …as guest speaker at the next Canadian citizenship ceremony »
À la suite d’une carrière dans le service extérieur canadien qui l’a conduit en Afrique, en Asie, en Europe et aux États-Unis, Robin Higham a poursuivi ses activités en tant que membre honoraire de l’École supérieure d’affaires publiques et internationales de l’Université…
Whose Man In Havana?
Note de la rédaction : Dans son livre Whose Man in Havana? John Graham insiste sur l’importance d’un service extérieur professionel et crédible, et sur le rôle de celui-ci quant à la formulation d’une politique étrangère ayant les intérêts du Canada à…
