Presentation to the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada / Mémoire au Comité spécial mixte sur le renouvellement du Canada
We, the undersigned, are making this presentation to the Special Joint Committee out of a deep concern for the future of our country and in the hope that we may contribute a special point of view to the constitutional debate. We are…
La délimitation de la frontière maritime au large de Terre-Neuve et de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon : quelle affaire!
Dans quelque temps, le Tribunal rendra sa décision dans cette affaire d’arbitrage âprement disputée entre le Canada et la France. En jeu est la délimitation d’une frontière maritime au large de Terre-Neuve et de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. C’était le 30 mars 1989 que les…
Le Canada à l’Organisation des États américains (OEA)
Le 27 octobre 1989, le Premier ministre Mulroney annonçait à San José, Costa Rica, que le Canada n’entendait plus « rester à l’écart » de l’Hémisphère : nous allions donc adhérer à l’OEA et « devenir des citoyens à part entière qui…
Une diplomatie de l’espoir. Le Canada et le désarmement 1945-1988
Il faut féliciter Albert Legault et Michel Fortmann pour la somme de travail qu’ils ont fournie dans la préparation de ce volumineux ouvrage. Une diplomatie de l’espoir est, en effet, comme son titre l’indique, une étude complète de la politique canadienne vis-à-vis…
Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean has had ties with Canada stretching back into the eighteenth century colonial system. Yet it, like Latin America, to which it is now more bureaucratically linked, has remained less attractive to the aspiring Foreign Service Officer than have other…
Whither the Canadian Foreign Service?
The Canadian Foreign Service will not survive as an effective instrument of national interest if current trends persist. After a glance at the past and a shudder for the present, possible solutions for the future are suggested.
Canadian Diplomacy: A View from the Fourth Estate
It is so easy to figure out what the Americans are thinking about the latest coup, declaration of war or arms cut proposals from abroad.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives
Its title notwithstanding, this book is not an encyclopedia in the conventional sense, but rather a reference work produced in a manner that will be familiar to readers of, for example, the New Cambridge Modern History. That is, it is a collection…
Pressure: How America Runs NATO
Who really runs NATO? That is the question that Dan Smith, associate director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, addresses in his book Pressure: How America Runs NATO. Smith’s argument is a more subtle variation of the conspiracy theories one finds in…
The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In The Domestic Battleground, David Taras and David Goldberg set out to awaken “the reader to the high stakes that Canadians have in the Middle East conflict and to the importance of the domestic battleground in influencing the policies Canada will pursue”.…
