Speaker heralds the end of cocktail diplomacy

Guelph Mercury

Drew Halfnight
February 2, 2011

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GUELPH — Picture a diplomat. What do you see?

Perhaps an old-world dandy bowing low at the entrance to a state-sponsored soirée, or an idle bureaucrat gazing listlessly out the window of an overly sumptuous office.

Both images are outmoded, according to Jorge Heine, a former Chilean ambassador to India and South Africa and current professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

Gone are the days of “people in striped pants drinking …

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