Dog Days of Summer at the UN, 1950
At the beginning of June 1950, Robert Gerald (“Gerry”) Riddell succeeded John Wendell Holmes as Acting Permanent Delegate of Canada to the United Nations in New York. Before the end of the month, Riddell was engaged in the diplomacy arising from the…
John Holmes: Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour
Every generation at DFAIT creates its own legends. A legend for my generation was John Holmes. It may stimulate efforts of the current generation and those of others in and out of Government, to consider the enduring values of some of the…
The UN at Fifty
More than fifty years have gone by since Lester Pearson, Hume Wrong, Escott Reid, Charles Ritchie and their colleagues in the Department of External Affairs laboured with their opposite numbers, mainly British and American, in drafting the document presented to governments in…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
Some weeks ago I attended (purely in a stand-in capacity, you understand…) a meeting at which a large number of directors of divisions that deal predominantly with trade relations were present. At one point in the discussions, someone said, as an aside,,…
HAITI: The Diplomacy of Failure and The Victory of Arms
“Pa kouri! Sé démokrasi!” That was the message intoned over the loudspeakers of US Forces Apache buzzing Port-au-Prince on the morning of September 19th, 1994. “Don’t be afraid! It’s democracy!”
Global Policymaking / Les politiques globales
The Policy Staff, the Trade and Economic Policy Branch and the Political and International Security Affairs Branch take the lead across a wide breadth to global political, security, economic and trade issues facing Canada.
Towards a New World Order
One of the more difficult problems now facing all NATO governments, individually and collectively, is how to structure national armed forces to meet the largely unknowable requirements of the decades ahead.
