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Biografisk notat
Adam Chapnick is the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College and an assistant professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. His previous book with UBC Press, The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations, was shortlisted for the 2005 Dafoe Book Prize.
It took one of the rising stars in the study of Canadian foreign policy – Adam Chapnick – to take on this task. The result is a tour de force. - Duane Bratt, Mount Royal University (Canadian Foreign Policy)
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than diplomat and scholar John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars.
Canada's Voice draws upon family letters, archival records, and more than 150 personal interviews to chronicle how Holmes influenced the way diplomats, scholars, and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and its citizens and how Canadians saw themselves on the world stage. Accessible and engrossing, this is the only comprehensive biography of a man who helped shape foreign policy during Canada's golden age as a middle power.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Early Years
2 External Affairs' New Golden Boy
3 The Rising Star
4 John Holmes' Golden Age
5 Descending through the Diefenbaker Era
6 Ruin and Recovery
7 Headfirst into the CIIA
8 A Diplomat in Action
9 1967: A Year of Transition
10 Breaking Free from the Institute
11 Freedom, Passion, and Frustration
12 Older and Wiser
13 Regrets and Renewal
14 Saying Goodbye
Notes
Bibliography
Index
It took one of the rising stars in the study of Canadian foreign policy – Adam Chapnick – to take on this task. The result is a tour de force. - Duane Bratt, Mount Royal University (Canadian Foreign Policy)
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than diplomat and scholar John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars.
Canada's Voice draws upon family letters, archival records, and more than 150 personal interviews to chronicle how Holmes influenced the way diplomats, scholars, and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and its citizens and how Canadians saw themselves on the world stage. Accessible and engrossing, this is the only comprehensive biography of a man who helped shape foreign policy during Canada's golden age as a middle power.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Early Years
2 External Affairs' New Golden Boy
3 The Rising Star
4 John Holmes' Golden Age
5 Descending through the Diefenbaker Era
6 Ruin and Recovery
7 Headfirst into the CIIA
8 A Diplomat in Action
9 1967: A Year of Transition
10 Breaking Free from the Institute
11 Freedom, Passion, and Frustration
12 Older and Wiser
13 Regrets and Renewal
14 Saying Goodbye
Notes
Bibliography
Index