bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 1, 1990
Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World
Some 15 years ago historian Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man. His book, an expansion of a 1989 article, argued that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet empire represented the end…
Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam
Several years ago, Paul Martin Sr., who spent a lifetime observing Canadian politics as a minister in the cabinets of Mackenzie King, St. Laurent, Pearson and Trudeau, dismissed personality as a substantial influence in political decision-making. What really mattered over the long-term,…
“Pirouette”: An Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Professor(s) J.L. Granatstein and Robert Bothwell’s book entitled Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy published in August 1990 by the University of Toronto Press, (477 pp., $35.00). The excerpt is taken from Chapter 2, A…
