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Canada's Magazine of Diplomacy and Foreign Service
VOL. 16, No. 4

The cover Image is a stamp from the Millennium Collective: Canada' s Historic role in Banning Land Mines, reproduced courtesy of Canada Post.

Features

Entrevue avec Mme Suzanne Laporte, sous-ministre adjoint responsable pour les ressources humaines La nouvelle SMA des Ressources humaines au MAECI est bien déterminée à devenir un catalyseur de changement./The new ADM for Human Resources is determined to be a catalyst for change.

Heading for the Hinterland: Cross Canada Study Tour 1999 Foreign service recruits discover the country they will represent abroad and learn some lessons about working as part of a team. / Les recrues du service extérieur découvrent le pays qu’ils représenteront à l’étranger et apprennent quelques leçons sur la façon de travailler comme membre d’une équipe.

Latvia in Transition: The Price of Freedom After the euphoria came the realization that independence had costs which proved to be far greater than anyone had expected. / Après l’euphorie vint la prise de conscience que l’indépendance avait des coûts beaucoup plus élevés que ceux que l’on avait prévus. by/par Peter Zaline  

Illustrating the Perils of AIDS: A profile of Neill McKee & Sara A Canadian’s work may do as much as any other development project to encourage attitudinal changes in Africa. /  Le travail d’un Canadien peut accomplir autant que tout autre projet de développement visant à encourager des changements d’attitude en Afrique. par/by Clyde Sanger

Canadians in the Congo 1887-1892 A Nova Scotian connection to the Scramble for Africa. / La filière néo-écossaise dans la ruée vers l’Afrique. by the Hon. / par l’hon Roy MacLaren  

Foreign Policy for Byzantines A snapshot of Byzantine foreign policy at the end of the first millennium. / Un aperçu de la politique étrangère byzantine à la fin du premier millénaire by / par Roger Lucy

Public Diplomacy
H.G. Pardy; Geoffrey Murray; Canadian and locally-engaged staff of the High commission in Nairobi.  

Commentary
A Career in the Canadian Foreign Service? An Historian's Perspective by Hector Mackenzie

PAFSO Forum
PS Survey Data Show Significant Dissatisfaction by Ian R. Mackenzie; Lettre de l'APASE aux ministres - le 20 janvier 2000.  

In Memoriam
Arthur Irwin, Anthony (Tony) Vincent, Eldon (Pat) Black, Charles McGaughey

Poetry
Spring Tune-up. by Terry Jones  

From the Archives
For King and Country? / Pour le roi et le pays?

Books in Review
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West reviewed by John Starnes
Aid and Ebb tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance reviewed by Greg Donaghy
Dispatches From a Borderless World reviewed by David Kilgour

Entertainment
The One Percent Solution: Another calculating conumdrum from A Aalto