bout de papier, Volume 10, Issue No. 4, 1993
bout de papier, Volume 4, Issue No. 1, 1985
Pictures from a Soviet Exhibition
by Geoffrey Pearson
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…
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…
Our Man in Moscow — A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union
by Peter Roberts
NATO: Does Life Begin at 40?
This is a year of many anniversaires. 50 years ago the most destructive war the world has ever seen broke out. 44 years ago VE- and VJ-Days marked the end of that war, and with it the emergence of a new bipolar…
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.…
Containment: Forty Years Later
We asked four retired Canadian diplomats: George Grande, John Halstead, John Holmes and George Ignatieff for their views on the success of containment. They all reread Kennan’s famous piece and then went to work.
A Time for Peace
De temps à autre un livre est publié pour des raisons politiques. Lénine, Mao, De Gaulle tous ont publié des ouvrages afin d’exprimer comme tant d’autres leurs idées avec l’espoir de communiquer une pensée, une idéologie et surtout passer à l’histoire.
