It’s all here…everything you didn’t know about how Canada’s diplomats operate abroad when they are ambushed by protocol, wrong-footed in cultural minefields or dodging stray bullets in a shooting skirmish. Read these sideways glances, discreet indiscretions, un-sung heroics and real-life adventures in foreign affairs, for an inside look at what your country’s representatives abroad do when they greet the day…or get up in the middle of the night.

Once again, in these sometimes touching, sometimes humorous but always intriguing reminiscences, we disclose more of the diplomat’s tradecraft and skillsets that foreign service officers employ in pursuit of Canadian interests abroad. Here you will see firsthand a profession which is undergoing radical change in order to accommodate the age of digital everything. When making judgement calls to deal with complex, multifaceted issues and people, allies or opponents, like-minded or unlike, has the notion of Artificial Intelligence become a diplomatic oxymoron? Your call, dear reader.

If you are interested in purchasing Not Mentioned in Dispatches, please send an email to info@ambcanada.ca. Some copies are also available at Books on Beechwood in Ottawa.