Overview

In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Pearson.In a career that spans the Canadian foreign service and international organizations, he was fortunate to be in the right place at interesting, if turbulent, times. Throughout the book he has focussed on the lighter side of people and places, but almost everywhere the dark side intrudes. Graham makes plain that the intersection of the two is frequently black comedy.

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Author:   John W. Graham ,  Robert Bothwell
Publisher:   University of Calgary Press
Imprint:   University of Calgary Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9781552388242

ISBN 10:   1552388247
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 November 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Robert Bothwell PrefaceBook One Dominican Republic Voyage to a Different Planet Leopold's List Darkness at Noon The Dictator's Sarcophagus ""Down with Those Who Rise"" Navidad con Libertad Meatballs, Moose Piss, and the National Day Cuba Whose Man in Havana? United Kingdom The Thames, Bunnies, and Bicycles Japan Sake and the Advancement of Cultural Diplomacy Guyana Caviar and Christmas Trees The Phantom Saboteur Alcide Three-Piece ""Will the Dynamite Explode if I . . ."" The State Funeral of the Honourable Linden Forbes Burnham Suriname Clothes Make the Man Jewels of the Forest Trinidad and Tobago Me, Mick Jagger, Jungle Fever, and the Legion of Evil Grenada Pierre Trudeau and the Embarrassment of a Full Scale American War against a Very Small Island Haiti Le Chie est Mort Central America and Columbia Go By Boat: Travels with Allan MacEachen Panama The General and Margot Fonteyn Central America Fireworks and Foreign Policy Venezuela, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic A is for Aristide Between Brazil and Venezuela: Caipirinhas, Trestle Bridges, and Formula One Bus Drivers Beauty and the Official Beast: The Miss Venezuela Contest Book Two Dominican Republic Stepping Back from the Precipice Haiti ""The Pencil of God Has No Eraser"" I ""The Pencil of God Has No Eraser"" II Bosnia Black Past, Grey Future? Sex, Sports, and Diplomacy The Psychologist, the General, and the Beauty Contest More Generals and the Ice Cream Man The Road to Srebrenica Paraguay El Supremo Kyrgyzstan Boiling Toilets and Fermented Mare's Milk Guatemala San Marcos and the Elections of 2003 Venezuela Hugo Chavez: Much Loved, Much Loathed Ukraine Night train to Ternopil Palestine Good Elections, Bad Judgement Nicaragua The Jaguar Changes Some of Its Spots El Salvador Off the Beaten Track Haiti Goudeau-Goudeau: Return to Haiti Lou Quinn: A Profile Afterward Notes Index"

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John W. Graham is a former Canadian ambassador whose postings in the foreign service and subsequently with international organizations took him to exotic, often uncomfortable, and sometimes remote parts of the world. Many assignments were in Latin America and the Caribbean, but ranged widely from Bosnia and Eastern Europe to the West Bank and Central Asia. In various times and places He was High Commissioner (Guyana), Director General for the Caribbean and Central America, Ambassador (Venezuela and the Dominican Republic), first head of the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy in the Organization of American States (OAS), international mediator in a major crisis in the Dominican Republic and a senior elections officer immediately following the Bosnian war, and leader of five election observation missions and participant in many more. He is a member of The Friends of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and former chair of the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL).

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