Books on Canadian Diplomacy
Books BY FORMER HEADS OF MISSION AND OTHER CANADIAN DIPLOMATS
Andrew, Arthur Julian. Defence by Other Means: Diplomacy for the Underdog. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1971.
Bartleman, James. On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service, 1966-2002. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005.
Brown, J. C. Gordon. Blazes Along a Diplomatic Trail: A Memoire of Four Posts in the Canadian Foreign Service. Victoria: Trafford, 2000.
Bruchési, Jean. Canada, Réalité d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1948.
— Voyages … Mirages …. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1957.
— Témoignages d’hier. Montreal: Fides, 1961.
— Souvenir à vaincre. Montreal: Hurtubise, 1961.
— Souvenir d’ambassade. Mémoires, 1959-1972. Montreal: Fides, 1976.
Burney, Derek Hudson. Getting it Done: A Memoir. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
— and Fen Osler Hampson. Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.
Cadieux, Marcel. Le diplomate canadien; elements d’une definition. Montreal: Fides, 1962.
— Embruns. Montreal: le Cercle du livre de France, 1951.
— Première armes. Montreal: le Cercle du livre de France, 1951.
Dandurand, Raoul and Marcel Hamelin. Raoul Dandurand, le sénateur-diplomate: Mémoires, (1861-1942). Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2000.
Drake, Earl G. A Stubble-Jumper in Striped Pants: Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Ford, Robert Arthur Douglas. Our Man in Moscow: A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union from Stalin to Brezhnev. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Fowler, Robert R. A Season in Hell: My 130 days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2011.
Gotlieb, Allan E. Canadian Diplomacy in the 1980s: Leadership and Service. Toronto: Centre for International Studies, 1982.
— Canadian Treaty-Making. Toronto: Butterworths, 1968.
— “I’ll be with you in a minute, Mr Ambassador”: The Education of a Canadian Diplomat in Washington. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
— Disarmament and International Law: A Study of the Role of Law in the Disarmament Process. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1967.
— The Washington Diaries, 1981-1989. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007.
Graham, John W. Whose Man in Havana? Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015.
Ignatieff, George. The Making of a Peace Monger. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
— General A.G.L. McNaughton: A Soldier in Diplomacy. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1967.
Johnston, Peter. Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies. Victoria: Trafford, 2002.
Heeney, Arnold. The Things that are Caesar’s: The Memoirs of a Canadian Public Servant. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
Heinbecker, Paul. Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011.
Keenleyside, H.L. Canada and the United States: Some Aspects of the History of the Republic and the Dominion. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1929.
— The Growth of Canadian Policies in External Affairs. Durham: Duke University Press, 1960.
— International Aid: A Summary, with Special Reference to the Programmes of the United Nations. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1966.
— Memoirs of Hugh L. Keenleyside. Vol. 1, Hammer the Golden Day. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981.
— Memoirs of Hugh L. Keenleyside. Vol. 2, On the Bridge of Time. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982.
LePan, Douglas. Bright Glass of Memory: A Set of four Memoirs. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1979.
Mulroney, David. Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canadians Need to Know about China in the 21st Century. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2015.
Pardy, Gar. China in a Changing World. Kanata: Agora Books. 2020
Pearson, Lester Bowles. Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson. 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, 1973, 1975.
Reid, Escott. Radical Mandarin: the Memoirs of Escott Reid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
— Envoy to Nehru. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
— Hungary and Suez, 1956: a view from New Delhi. Ahmedabad: Allied Publishers, 1987.
— On Duty: a Canadian at the making of the United Nations, 1945-1946. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.
— Time of Fear and Hope: the Making of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
— Strengthening the World Bank. Chicago: Adlai Stevenson Institute, 1973.
— The Revolution in Canadian foreign policy, 1947-1951. New Delhi, Indian Council of World Affairs, 1958.
Ritchie, Charles. Undiplomatic Diaries, 1937-1971. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008.
Roberts, Peter. Raising Eyebrows: An Undiplomatic Memoirs. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 2000.
Robertson, Gordon. Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Ronning, Chester. A Memoir of China in Revolution: From the Boxer Rebellion to the People’s Republic. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Smith, Arnold Cantwell. The We-They Frontier: From International Relations to World Politics. Leeds: University of Leeds Review, 1984.
— and Clyde Sanger. Stitches in Time: the Commonwealth in World Politics. Don Mills: General Publishing. 1981.
Wilgress, Leolyn Dana. Two years in Moscow: Canada’s ambassador speaks. Vancouver: Vancouver Council for Canadian Soviet Friendship, 1945.
— Dana Wilgress: Memoirs. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967
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