With full access to key players and new documentation, Fen Osler Hampson tells how Canada advanced its national interests on trade, the environment, national security, and the elevation of democracy and human rights under Mulroney's leadership.

Introduction: "Speak Me True" -- A Historic Pivot on Trade -- Tears Are Not Enough: Famine in Ethiopia -- A Light in the Window: Ending Apartheid in South Africa -- Lessons from the Spittoon: Engaging Asia -- No More Dithering: La Francophonie and the OAS -- Never Take No for an Answer -- Acid Rain -- From Baie-Comeau to Rio's Guanabara Bay -- the Road to the Earth Summit -- The Right Side of History: Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Kohl -- Safeguarding the New Global Order: The Gulf War and Peacekeeping -- "I Sure Will".