Colin RobertsonComments Off on Diplomacy: Canada’s New Policies Toward Latin America
From America’s Quarterly, November 2011: In August, on his fourth official visit to Latin America, Prime Minister Stephen Harper set out to reboot Canada’s on-and-off-again relationship with the region. In… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on Harper Charts a Course for Canada
While he has many foreign policy critics, the prime minister has found his point on Canada’s diplomatic compass From the Ottawa Citizen, Monday, October 17,2011 and in the Hill Times,… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on The Border: Bygone Days of ‘Pass Friend’
The border: The bygone days of ‘Pass friend’ in Embassy Magazine, September 7, 2011 By Colin Robertson Landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after a 12-hour flight from Beijing, I… Read more »
and also in the Halifax Chronicle Herald August 20, 2011 under the title ‘Forces to be Reckoned with’ In defence of tradition The restoration of traditional names for Canada’s military… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on Restoring Canada’s Foreign Service
We must restore our diplomatic core Monday, Aug. 08, 2011 Globe and Mail ALLAN GOTLIEB and COLIN ROBERTSON With his election victory, Stephen Harper has achieved a new place among… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on In Praise of the Hidden Wiring
Canada-U.S. relations: In praise of the ‘hidden wiring’ By Colin Robertson, Special to The Vancouver Sun July 20, 2011 (also in the Ottawa Citizen, July 22 as ‘U.S. relations much… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on Detroit River International Crossing
Excerpted from Windsor Star editorial Lakes Summit June 21, 2011 Today, about 250 individuals from business, government and non-profit sectors will meet in our community to lay out a game… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on The Great Lakes: Trade and Commerce
Let the goods flow Colin Robertson And James Blanchard, National Post · Jun. 14, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 14, 2011 2:03 AM ET Ever since Samuel de Champlain and… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on Defence and diplomacy in an age of austerity
As part of their background series on the Canadian budget ipolitics published ‘Defence and Diplomacy in an Age of Austerity’ and in The Mark as Defence in an Age of… Read more »
Colin RobertsonComments Off on Put Mexico at top of Canada’s Aid List
Published Wednesday, May. 18, 2011 Globe and Mail Lurid headlines about mass graves and headless corpses – the premise for Carlos Fuentes’s most recent novel Destiny and Desire – are… Read more »