Stepping Back from the Precipice
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In Conversation with Alex Bugailiskis
bout: Congratulations on “Unfinished Agenda”. David Bickford leaves no doubt that it is required reading for anyone dealing with Canada-Mexico relations, but if there were one key message you mean to convey, what would it be?
“Unfinished Agenda”: David Bickford on Mexico
296 pp, $29.95
Dar Es Salaam 1963
DAR ES SALAAM 1963 by Tom Torrance, General Store Publishing House, 2010, $19.95
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone
HOW TO AVOID BEING KILLED IN A WAR ZONE: THE ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR DANGEROUS PLACES, by Rosie Garthwaite, Bloomsbury USA, 2011, 304 pp. $22.50
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 / The Secret History of MI6: 1909–1949 / GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency
Three exceptional books were published in the past year on British intelligence. Logging in at 600 to 1,000 pages each, these are not for the faint of heart. However, they are a must-read for those who want to understand the world of…
African Chronicles – A Memoir
In the 1960s the Honourable and Reverend Walter McLean was the first field director and senior advisor for CUSO in West Africa, minister of the Presbyterian Church, chaplain to the University of Nigeria, and a peace envoy between the government of Eastern…
The Ambassador’s Camel: Undiplomatic Tales of Embassy Life
satie entree The Ambassador’s si Camel: Undiplomatic Tales of Embassy Life, a new book by David Holdsworth, tells a lot about life in the Foreign Service through the deft use of humour. In time, it may well enter the canon of formative…
Le Triangle Québec-Ottawa-Paris
Gilles Duguay, diplomate de carrière, livre un ouvrage remarquable, peut-être inspiré par Churchill qui affirmait : « Plus vous saurez regarder loin dans le passé, plus vous verrez loin dans l’avenir ». Dans une savante fresque des événements importants de l’histoire de…
Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada
It is said that a diplomat is a professional optimist. If there is one salient characteristic in Paul Heinbecker’s refreshing assessment of Canada’s foreign policy past and present, it is optimism. His analysis radiates an essential optimism about the capacity of Canada…
