Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation
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- 18 décembre 2018
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 10
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- 12 avril 2019
“We judge it very likely that Canadian voters will encounter some form of foreign cyber interference related to the 2019 federal election.” So says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, in a …
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 20
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- 12 avril 2019
Part 1 of this blog dealt with the fairly generic alarms raised by the CSE regarding election tampering by foreign cyber threats. As far as the specific threat to Canada is concerned, CSE says the following:
« Since the 2015 …
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One Thing Trump is Right About0
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- 20 janvier 2017
Throughout the Cold War, the amount of military violence worldwide grew steadily, reaching a peak in 1992. A major reason was interference by the superpowers in local conflicts. The proxy wars that resulted when the United States and the Soviet …
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West Politicizes IMF to Support Ukraine0
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- 10 décembre 2015
Par Paul Robinson
Power is shifting worldwide. As previously less developed economies grow at a faster rate than those of the West, Western states are becoming relatively less powerful. It is in the West’s interest, therefore, to use the years …
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Russia’s Endgame in Donbass0
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- 27 novembre 2015
Par Paul Robinson
Although in recent weeks the attention of many has shifted to events in Syria, the war in Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, has not entirely ended. Fighting continues to kill two or three people each week, and the …
EN SAVOIR PLUSDebacle at Debaltsevo Calls For a New Approach to Ukraine0
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- 18 février 2015
Before coming up with solutions it is first advisable to determine the nature of the problem. Right now the United States is considering sending arms to Ukraine, while here in Canada the Defence Minister, Jason Kenney, has been mulling the …
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Is Putin the World’s Most Popular Politician0
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- 17 août 2014
Reviled in the West as a dictator, Russian president Vladimir Putin is enjoying a surge of support at home. According to the latest results published by polling organization Levada (which is generally considered hostile to the Russian government), Putin has …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMoral Confusion in Gaza and Ukraine0
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- 1 août 2014
In my last post for the CIPS Blog, I drew readers’ attention to Robert Entman’s 1991 article comparing media coverage of the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983 and Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988. It is …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMedia Bias Frames Western Reporting on Ukraine0
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- 5 juin 2014
In a 1991 article published in the Journal of Communications, Robert Entman of the George Washington University examined how the American media framed international news. He compared coverage of two similar events: the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPolitical Legitimacy is What Matters in Ukraine’s Popular Referendums0
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- 15 mai 2014
A decade ago, The Spectator magazine commissioned me to write an article arguing that the British government ought to hold a referendum on the proposed new constitution for the European Union. I went further, and proposed that if the government …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThe Putin Book Club0
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- 3 avril 2014
“We must love all nations as we love our own,” writes Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov in his 1897 book The Justification of the Good. The “greatness and value” of nationality, he claims, lies “not in itself taken in …
EN SAVOIR PLUSReaping the Whirlwind in Ukraine0
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- 4 mars 2014
The Russian media had a good laugh on March 2 at the expense of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who denounced Russia by saying, “[y]ou just don’t invade another country on a phony pretext in order to assert your …
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The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops
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- 26 février 2018
