Reassessing the ‘Hearts and Minds’ Model of Counter-Insurgency0

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• 12 mars 2012

A couple of news items today bring forth contrasting visions of counter-insurgency success and failure. The first recounts the apparently quite successful reconstruction of Grozny; the second, the massacre of 16 Afghans by an American soldier. The contrast makes …

Why the People Wanted Putin0

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• 5 mars 2012

L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 4 mars 2012.

‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most …

Stolypin and Russia’s Veto of the Syria Resolution0

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• 9 février 2012

The Russian veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria has had leaders and pundits in the West lining up to denounce the Russians, accusing them of revealing their autocratic tendencies and putting their own narrow trading interests (for …

Observations on Russian Politics from a Moscow Bookstore0

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• 31 janvier 2012

While waiting for the Moscow archives to deliver up their secrets last week, I popped into the Russian capital’s largest bookstore, Biblio Globus, to check out the history section—and while there, I took a very quick look at the politics …

Nothing Much Will Change: The New U.S. Military Strategy0

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• 10 janvier 2012

The recently-published new U.S. military strategy, entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, attracted a great deal of attention last week, with some critics denouncing what they claimed were excessive cuts in defence spending, and others …

Protection Racket0

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• 1 novembre 2011

The Responsibility to Protect may indeed protect some civilians, but unfortunately it also facilitates atrocities against others. Writing last week about the end of NATO’s mission in Libya, Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock proclaimed it as ‘A victory for the …

What Defence Policy is Really About0

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• 21 octobre 2011

Forum: Le MDN et les conseils des universitaires sur les politiques
Dans ce forum, les collaborateurs au Blogue du CÉPI réagissent à la publication d’un rapport, rédigé par Douglas Bland et Richard Shimooka de l’Université Queen’s, selon lequel le ministère …