bout de papier, Volume 21, Issue No. 2, 2005
bout de papier, Volume 17, Issue No. 1, 2000
Rollercoaster
Readers of bout de papier need no introduction to James Bartleman, currently the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and formerly a member of the Canadian foreign service, as well as an advisor for four years to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on Canada’s international relations.…
Tests of Global Governance: Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World Conferences
Andrew Cooper’s welcome book fills a gap in Canadian foreign policy literature, Tinking UN thematic conferences to global governance and “new diplomacy” involving non-state actors. While noting the detachment generally shown for UN summits by Prime Minister Chrétien, in contrast to Prime…
Letter from RHOMA
Dear Prime Minister,
DFAIT and Team Canada
The idea of Team Canada originated with senior officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and at the Privy Council Office (PCO), not long after the current government came to power in 1993. Initially, the intention was to…
Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations 1967-1974
It is not every day that one of your predecessors publishes a book about his professional activities in the post you currently occupy. Eldon (Pat) Black’s book Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations 1967-1974 is a fascinating read. It brings back a lot of…
Team Canada — The Bottom Line
by Mark Drake
Bicycles in Shanghai
by Richard Belliveau
There Was a Summit in Halifax…
Friedrich Nietzsche had not experienced any G-7 summits in the late nineteenth century but he did more or less get it right when he wrote that “Life always gets harder towards the summit: the cold increases, responsibility increases.” Halifax in June 1995…
