Whose Man in Havana? Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy - Audio Book
Date
2016-10
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University of Calgary Press
Abstract
In Whose Man in Havana? John Graham provides us with a direct look at international relations through his experience as a practitioner who, as he puts it, has been fortunate in his career within the Canadian foreign service and international organizations to be 'in the right place at the right time'. The stuff of novels, he never would have dreamed that his apprenticeship would have him stationed in Cuba spying for the CIA on Soviet military operations. Subsequent assignments proved to be as unexpectedly and bizarrely entertaining. Throughout the book, he has focused on the lighter side of people and places, but almost everywhere the dark side intrudes, particularly the man-made dark side, providing quite a bit of black comedy. He notes that diplomacy at its most effective is neither dry nor humourless. The book is focused mainly on Latin America and the Caribbean, but other chapters range across Bosnia, the UK, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, and Crete.
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Diplomats—Canada— Biography, Ambassadors—Canada—Biography, Canada—Foreign relations—1945
Citation
Graham, J.W. "Whose man in Havana? : adventures from the far side of diplomacy." Latin American and Caribbean Series; 12. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2016.