Shaughnessy Cohen Prize finalists Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson on The Two Michaels скачать в хорошем качестве

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize finalists Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson on The Two Michaels

“A blend of legal drama and spy caper, Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson’s engaging and impeccably sourced The Two Michaels is a quick but intense account of the 1,019 days after Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were snatched up by Chinese police, charged with espionage, and held captive. In telling the inside story of diplomacy attempts, geopolitics at play, and the quest for cyber supremacy, Blanchfield and Hampson point to the difficult foreign policy choices Canada faces going forward.” — 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury (Charelle Evelyn, Jacques Poitras, and Lisa Raitt) About the Book In 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant on charges of fraud. Nine days later, China arrested two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, on charges of spying. In The Two Michaels, Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson contextualize their imprisonment amidst a larger geopolitical backdrop where life-and-death diplomacy, superpower rivalry, cyber espionage, and control over the internet form the basis of a new Cold War between China and the West. About Mike Blanchfield Mike Blanchfield has been a journalist on Parliament Hill since 1998. He is an international affairs writer for The Canadian Press and covered courts and police for the Ottawa Citizen, where he worked for 22 years. Blanchfield won the 2013 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship and has traveled the world for his work, including to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Laos. Blanchfield is the author of Swingback and co-author of The Two Michaels with Fen Osler Hampson. He lives in Ottawa. About Fen Osler Hampson Fen Osler Hampson is Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University and president of the World Refugee & Migration Council. He holds a PhD from Harvard and has authored several books and articles on diplomacy and international affairs, including The Two Michaels which he co-wrote with Mike Blanchfield. A frequent contributor to national and international media, Hampson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the winner of a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association, and the recipient of a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship. He lives in Ottawa. writerstrust.com/ShaughnessyCohen #ShaughnessyCohen