Baghdad
Through my two years in Baghdad Iraq was at war with Iran, a particularly savage war of attrition. It raged on in the trenches for eight years and over a million casualties. It has been aptly described as a war fought with…
Canada and the World — Four Points of View
ANDREW COHEN’S BOOK, While Canada Slept, How We Lost Our Place in the World, published in 2003 to considerable critical acclaim, argues that Canada’s standing in the world is in steep decline and that we must take steps to recover the position…
Canada and the World
Canada’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, who is now Director and CEO of the Liu Institute of Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, has drawn upon his considerable experience of international relations and Canadian politics to write a…
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
In this issue bout de papier presents two viewpoints on Andrew Cohen’s discussion of the Foreign Service
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
In the wake of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the early years of the twenty-first century we seem to have reached a defining moment, a moment characterized by extraordinary flux and uncertainty. The post Cold War era is over, with the…
Defining and Defending a Place in the World
In the wake of the terrorist attacks over one year ago and in light of the myriad responses to those events in North America and around the world, there has been an understandable attention in Canada as elsewhere to what has changed…
Editorial // Éditorial
Utioners of foreign policy constantly ne of the issues with which the practistruggle is identifying Canada’s place in the world. At first glance, this issue may seem a little trite, appealing to the apparent Canadian national past-time of navel-gazing. But Canada is…
Why Not An Ideal Canadian Foreign Policy?
In an earlier issue of bout de papier (Vol. 18, No. 2), we reprinted one of a series of papers from a “Re-Examination of Canadian Foreign Policy” that was initiated at the request of the minister, Lester B. Pearson, and under the…
From Here to the Sun
Hello, faithful readers. Who would have thunk it? Nortel at $120 after two splits, now costing less than that other great Canadian staple, a case of beer. Pity the poor portfolio managers in their struggle to counsel their clients on how to…
La mondialisation après Seattle
Note de la rédaction : Cet article a d’abord paru dans le numéro de l’été de Politique étrangère de la France, publiée par l’Institut français des relations internationales à Paris. politique ei
