Lessons of the 20th Century for Canadian Foreign Policy
It may be quite audacious for a non-Canadian to try to come up with something worthwhile reading after having spent just a few months as a guest in this country. The one real advantage a foreigner has, though, is a chance to…
A Skelton Legacy: Diplomats, Scholars and the Canadian Foreign Service
The history of Canada’s Department ot External Attairs is one of uneven but nevertheless sustained growth over a period of nine decades. Created by act of parliament in 1909, the Department started life as little more than a small secretariat with a…
Looking and Seeing: Foreign Policy and Squeegee Kids
In the early 1980s as a junior political officer I was posted to Bangkok, Thailand. The Southeast Asian wars had ended less than a decade earlier, although the horrors of the Cambodian genocide were still vivid. Cold War geostrategists had imposed a…
East vs. West?
photos and story by Daryl Copeland
The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1984
Among the recurring yarns concerning the Trudeau years this one may qualify as the most disappointing because it falls so far short of its potential for clearcut revelations, frank disclosures and persuasive rationalizations. This collection is admittedly conceived by Ivan Head and…
Widening the Foreign Policy Circle: Democratization or Co-optation?
by Evan H. Potter
Une longue patience
Twenty years defining Canadian Foreign Policy through the public record.
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
Some weeks ago I attended (purely in a stand-in capacity, you understand…) a meeting at which a large number of directors of divisions that deal predominantly with trade relations were present. At one point in the discussions, someone said, as an aside,,…
Making a Difference? Canada’s Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order
In December, 1991, an all-star line-up of academics, NGO leaders, government specialists and political leaders met in Toronto at a conference marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Statute of Westminster. This book, edited by two widely respected historians of Canada’s external relations,…
From the President’s Desk // Le mot du Président
I always found that writing the President’s column for bout de papier to be the most difficult part of the job. While the chance to share one’s thoughts with the membership, and other readers, is a wonderful opportunity the pressure to “get…
