CREATIVE DIPLOMACY:
The practice of diplomacy is probably entrenched in as many ways as is the practice of the legal profession or the military profession. Is there a possibility for “creative diplomacy” “, or is the concept impossible to achieve from the start? If…
The Changing Soviet Union: Implications for Canada and the World; Soviet Economic Policy Under Perestroika; The Soviet High Command 1967-1989: Personalities and Politics; The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy and the Disintegration of the USSR; The Changing Western Analysis of the Soviet Threat
Writing in The New York Review of Books last November, Peter Reddaway suggested that works of Sovietology published before the failed August coup would now invariably be judged by how far they pointed to, or least allowed for, perestroika’s abrupt dénouement in…
Back to Basics
Senior management at External Affairs and International Trade Canada has embraced a “back to basics” approach to foreign policy. This means that frivolous add-on overseas programs, such as immigration, sports, culture and wine-tasting, which do not correspond to the Department’s core function…
La Pérestroïka : « une affaire canadienne »
C’est ainsi qu’Alexandre Nicholaevitch Iakovlev caractérisait le grand mouvement de révolution tranquille qui a balayé l’Europe de l’Est et l’URSS à la fin des années 80. En effet celui qu’on appelle souvent le « père de la Pérestroïka » s’est trouvé sur…
Stockholm Remembered
In the past two decades the word “environment” has acquired many meanings and all of the human, political, economic, financial, social and scientific attributes of a challenging public issue. It comprises, for example, the preservation of the biosphere, the conservation of the…
Alone in North America
“When Canada is gone, the world will mourn,” said an eminent Canadian citizen at the Conference on Canadian Foreign Policy in Toronto last winter: His words were repeated by other speakers and aptly reflected the somber, quietly despairing mood of the Conference,…
Lester Pearson and the UN Secretary Generalship, 1953
The inclusion of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s name on the official list of candidates to succeed former United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar during last fall’s Security Council deliberations was not the first time that a Canadian had been formally…
Cultural Diplomacy: A Question of Government Policy
On March 17 last, I gave a lecture at the University of Victoria to the students of a course on cultural policy on the theory and practice of cultural diplomacy, or, as it is more generally called, international cultural relations. The main…
Reluctant Adversaries
Canada is now at one of the lowest points in our long relationship with China. Canada’s offer of permanent residence to PRC citizens unwilling to return to China after June 1989 and her strong stand on human rights issues have irked the…
World Population Growth and Population Movements: Policy Implications for Canada
Major decisions are facing Canada’s policymakers on the two great “people” phenomena of our time: rapid world population growth and mass movements of population. A huge UN Conference on Population and Development, almost on the scale of the UN Conference on Environment…
