The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation
Fidel Castro’s social revolution struggles to survive, no longer able to rely on the unstinting support it has depended on for thirty years from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. There, socialism has vanished in the twinkling of an historical eye. How…
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 New World Order / Le Canada et le nouvel ordre mondial
In the past year we have been exposed to a barrage of references to a “new world order”, and the PAFSO Professional Committee was quick off the mark to help members to define what this is all about, and what it means…
A “New Internationalism”?
Some Canadian governments consider it desirable to encapsulate the thrust of their foreign policy in code words or phrases. Mackenzie King was anxious that his government should be recognized internationally, after the Second World War, as enjoying authority as well as status.…
The West to the Rescue
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1991) — Spring 1991 // Printemps 1991, p. 35 On May 16, 1990, the President of Lithuania, Vytautus Landsbergus, said:“The west never promised us anything… We could only think that everything theWest has said had some foundation: that the principles and faith in humanity,democracy, people and nations’ rights […]
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Stanford University
On January 30, 1990, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau was awarded the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law at Stanford University Law School. The prize is awarded for original and distinguished contributions to the development of the role of law…
Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941-1948
by Donald Barry
Diefenbaker’s World: A Review Article
Should, heaven help us, there remain any Canadians not convinced of the turbulence of our times, or the speed with which events and issues pass and change, a contemporary retrospective of the era of John Diefenbaker’s stewardship of this country is a…
Christoph Bertram on Future Foreign Policy Challenges
In March 1988 the Canadian Institute of International Affairs sponsored a conference in Ottawa on “Canadian Foreign Policy: Preparing For The 21st Century”. One of the concluding speakers was Christoph Bertram whose thoughtful observations about future international challenges warrant some careful consideration.…
TV Socko at the U.N.
Every time I hear another tirade about the evil and sinister pervasiveness of American cultural imperialism, I think back to some bizarre things that happened when Canada’s Lorne Greene showed up in New York in 1967 and asked me to show him…
