David Petrasek

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

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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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Canada Abandons International Justice Effort in Syria 0
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- 21 janvier 2013
In the past week, amidst the crisis in Mali and the hostage crisis at the gas plant in southern Algeria, the world’s attention shifted away from the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. This perhaps explains how the Canadian media missed what …
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Mulling Over Mali 0
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- 15 janvier 2013
To those of us deeply skeptical of the deployment of Western military force in the developing world, the French intervention in Mali in recent days poses something of a dilemma. It appears to be legally and militarily justified, and enjoys …
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Principle or Prejudice? Canada’s Misguided Denial of Palestinian Statehood 0
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- 3 décembre 2012
Prime Minister Harper tweeted on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had called to thank him for Canada’s “friendship and principled position this week at the UN ». The friendship may be obvious, but one searches in vain for the …
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Canoes, Maple Syrup and Tilley Hats: The Tory Vision for Canada’s Trading Future?0
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- 15 novembre 2012
‘Hewers of wood and drawers of water’ – a familiar and shorthand description for Canadians’ historical economic bias towards natural resources, and a phrase used pejoratively to describe a ‘brand’ that we need to shed to compete in a global …
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Troops to Turkey? The ‘Chanak Affair’ of 1922 and Its Relevance Today 0
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- 30 octobre 2012
Should Canada send its armed forces to war in Turkey? The increasingly violent civil war in Syria means this could become a real question, for two reasons. First, the fighting is leading to confrontations between Turkish and Syrian troops along …
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