A Trading Nation: Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
First, a word on our author. Michael Hart is not just the holder of the Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and a leading Canadian authority on trade policy. He is also a former…
Out of Muskoka
Before leaving the Canadian Foreign Service to become Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman served as Ambassador to Cuba, Israel, NATO and the European Union; High Commissioner to South Africa and Australia, and Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet and foreign policy adviser…
Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It
This book is directed at the individual who is casually interested by the world of intrigue and wants an enlightening book which can be consumed in easily read short segments. The book relies heavily on photographs to present its story of the…
Cocaine Train — Tracing my Bloodline Through Colombia
Anyone in the Canadian Foreign Service who has worked for any length of time in the Latin America Bureau or at one of our missions in the Americas region will tell you how frustrating it is when people who should know better…
The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology During the Second World War
Few scientists begin their careers intending to facilitate death and destruction. Their interests are generally life-affirming and yet, as Donald Avery shows so ably, when called upon, Canadian scientists turned their energy and creative talents to the instruments of war. That most…
L’Empire désorienté
Pourquoi le Japon est-il un pays qui, toujours, surprend? Comment explique-t-on que le site Web de la FNAC offre 395 volumes sur le Japon, tandis qu’à peine 25 livres apparaissent à son répertoire à propos, par exemple, de la Bulgarie? Pourquoi cette…
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
David Stafford has written a well-researched, captivating book about Roosevelt and Churchill and their deep personal interest and involvement in the conduct of the multifarious secret intelligence activities of the British, the Americans and their allies, which contributed so much to the…
MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service
At 800 pages of text, this is a heavy tome. However, well-written, interesting and thought-provoking, this is a book which almost ‘reads’ itself. Too informative and serious to be called a page-turner it, nevertheless, makes for an enjoyable, albeit long, read.
Blazes Along A Diplomatic Trail: A Memoir Of Four Posts In The Canadian Foreign Service
One of the most persistent and disagreeable of the myths relating to the foreign service has it that “diplomats” spend most of their time in various forms of fancy dress at vacuous parties and pointless ceremonies. That the myth is based on…
Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism
Professor Granatstein tells us this is not the book he intended to write. “As a devout anti-American for as long as I can remember,” he says he anticipated producing a “justification that would be a rationale for what I believed and knew…
