Although fifty years have passed since Lester Pearson stepped down as prime minister, he still influences debates about Canada’s role in the world. Mike’s World explores the myths surrounding Pearsonianism to explain why he remains such...
Diplomatic relations
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Author:McKercher, Asa, Perras, Galen RogerSummary: -
Author:Rupérez, JavierSummary:Javier Rupérez, diplomático español que posee uno de los currículum más notables del mundo político, vivió como embajador de España en Washington algunos de los acontecimientos más significativos de la historia contemporánea: los...
- Author:Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the United States in 1859? In "McGowan's War," Donald J. Hauka argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation during the...
- Author:Indyk, MartinSummary:
A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace...
- Author:MacLaren, RoySummary:
Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville...
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Author:Fuentes, CarlosSummary:A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of...
- Author:Mackenzie, Nadine, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
L’histoire nous montre que les guerres ont des origines les plus diverses. Et l’assassinat en 1859, par un colon américain, d’un cochon britannique un peu trop gourmand, suffit à déclencher un conflit entre les deux pays. Il devint...
- Author:Robinson, PatrickSummary:
In a covert operation, the U.S. Navy must intercept and destroy Russian submarines being sold to China. The submarines are of an advanced design and would enable China to attack Taiwan.
- Author:Harding, LukeSummary:
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, frontline reporting on Russia's harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in...
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Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
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Author:McCoy, Alfred W.Summary:In a new analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar...
- Author:O'Toole, FintanSummary:
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole...
- Author:Kagan, Robert, Slaughter, Anne-Marie, Stephens, Bret, Zakaria, FareedSummary:
The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama. From Ukraine to the...
- Author:Vucetic, SrdjanSummary:
Greatness and Declinesheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was...
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Author:Paquin, Jonathan, James, PatrickSummary:The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty. Although...
- Author:Hart, MichaelSummary:
Recent Canadian foreign policy has fixated upon Canada's former status as a middle power within a small club of western, democratic states. The emergence of a US-dominated world and of an integrated North American economy and the...
- Author:Sheinkin, SteveSummary:
As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima,...
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Author:Chang, JungSummary:From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress,...
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Author:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. The...
- Author:Maddow, RachelSummary:
Identifying what the author believes to be a battle between the priorities of civilian life and the war, the host of the critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow show explains that today's focus on national security is actually...
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