David Petrasek

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David Petrasek
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Checking Whose Reality? Contra Burney/Hampson on Canada’s Mideast Policy 0
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- 11 janvier 2014
Writing last week in the Globe and Mail (“Canada and the Middle East – A reality check”), Derek Burney and Fen Hampson aim to “set the record straight” regarding the Harper government’s diplomacy in the Middle East. Their effort …
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott 0
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- 18 novembre 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott …
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As Nuclear Talks Progress, Baird’s Concern for Human Rights in Iran Rings Hollow 0
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- 10 novembre 2013
Negotiations over the past three days in Geneva almost achieved a historic nuclear deal with Iran, and the parties’ concluding statements suggest there is a good chance a deal will be reached when talks resume on November 20.

Canada, however, …
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Sweeping Rights Aside: Ottawa, Pakistan and Netsweeper 0
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- 25 octobre 2013
Imagine the scenario: a private Canadian software company provides sophisticated technology to the Iranian government, allowing it to deny access in Iran to thousands of websites on account of their political or social content. How would the Canadian government respond?…
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Relief Not Regret Over Harper’s UN Absence 0
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- 29 septembre 2013
John Baird’s address to the UN today, his third, is likely to cover familiar ground: long on rhetoric, short on constructive policy. Regarding the important developments last week on Syria and Iran, Baird will insist that both countries will be …
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R2P: Hindrance Not A Help in the Syrian Crisis 0
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- 17 septembre 2013
Published on the openDemocracy blog September 13, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria guest edited by David Petrasek.

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine was developed to forge consensus …
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New Powers Won’t Play by Old Rules on Human Rights 0
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- 26 juin 2013
Published in the e-zine openGlobalRights, June 25, 2013

The following piece is a contribution to the Global Rights forum on Open Democracy. Over the next year, this forum will provide a venue for discussion and debate on a number …
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Jason Kenney: Canada’s Other (and Soon to be Only?) Foreign Minister 0
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- 6 mai 2013
The overseas trips of Foreign Minister Baird generate some attention and controversy. But Baird’s foreign travel is closely rivaled by—though less reported on than—that of his Cabinet colleague Jason Kenney, the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration. In only the first …
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Going Along to Get Along: John Baird’s Mideast Tour 0
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- 5 avril 2013
Foreign Minister Baird’s seven-country, ten-day tour of the Middle East provides final confirmation that his much vaunted “principled” foreign policy committed to promoting “freedom, human rights, democracy and the rule of law” is little more than empty rhetoric. So far, …
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Baird Muddies the Waters: Canada and the International Criminal Court 0
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- 10 mars 2013
The Canadian government has yet to fully explain its reason for refusing to support an initiative to persuade the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). As discussed previously, last month Foreign Minister Baird …
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Canada Should Play the Royal Card Against Sri Lanka’s Government 0
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- 15 février 2013
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma ended his visit to Sri Lanka this week by confirming that the next biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will go ahead as planned in the country later this year. Given that the Sri Lankan …
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Misinterpreting Mali: The Uses and Abuses of R2P 0
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- 11 février 2013
As argued in this space recently, there are sound legal and political justifications for the intervention of French and West African troops in northern Mali. Further, the apparent achievements of the operation so far lend support to those who argue …
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