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There is Nothing for You Here
THE “IMPROBABLE FIONA HILL,” as the author calls herself, emerged into the limelight in the first impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump in 2019. Previously a respected Russia expert in the think tank circles of Washington, D.C. and a professional…
The Moscow Rules
CANADIANS WILL REMEMBER TONY MENDEZ as the CIA operative who assisted in the exfiltration of the “American guests” in Teheran in 1980. This book is about his background as the CIA’s master of disguise, inventing ways to meet Russians in Moscow at…
Georgia and Putin’s Russia
Editor’s Note: Western media is saturated with news and analysis of events in Ukraine following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the downing of MH-17 over Eastern Ukraine. However, little attention has been paid to Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008 that foreshadowed…
NATO Membership Enlargement — A Moral Issue
The word “expansion”, when applied to geo-political situations, connotes an element of calculated planning and irredentism which is wholly lacking in the current enlarged membership issue facing the NATO member states. In fact, in the intense planning for peace within the Alliance…
“Being There” on the Banks of the Neva
In search of fertile ground for research on diplomatic mini-missions? Look back five years to the former Soviet Union. Following the creation of fifteen newly independent states, there was a proliferation of one-person foreign offices. Diplomats hung their signs and raised their…
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…
