Roland Paris

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Roland Paris
Director and Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Webpage.

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Canada is on the Front Lines of Challenges to Rule of Law 0
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- 28 janvier 2019
China’s apparent use of Canadian detainees as diplomatic bargaining chips is not just a problem for Canada. It is a challenge to all countries that seek to uphold the rule of law in their domestic and international affairs.

The dispute …
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Why Canada Should Care — a lot — about that UN Security Council seat 0
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- 3 décembre 2018
Canada will stand for election to the United Nations Security Council in June 2020. Our competitors are Norway and Ireland. Of the three countries, two will win seats on the council and begin their two-year terms in January 2021.

There …
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Khashoggi Murder Case a Test for Despots Everywhere 0
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- 18 octobre 2018
The disappearance and possible murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is an important test case for despots everywhere. Can they get away with interrogating, kidnapping, and even assassinating their critics in other countries?

Khashoggi, a resident of the United …
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Une éducation internationale pour nos étudiants est essentielle au succès du Canada 0
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- 5 décembre 2017
par Roland Paris et Margaret Biggs

Le plus gros client du Canada, les États-Unis, se réoriente vers le protectionnisme. Les puissances émergentes transforment l’économie mondiale. L’intolérance s’accroît, y compris au Canada. La technologie révolutionne la nature du travail.

Nous nous …
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Trump’s mixed signals threaten stability 0
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- 20 novembre 2016
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has ushered in a period of unsettling uncertainty in international affairs. He has called the foundations of American foreign policy into question, but his precise intentions remain mysterious.

If …
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Transition Memos Show Foreign Ministry Is Doing Its Job 0
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- 30 septembre 2015
A series of foreign ministry memos, leaked to the media in recent days, offer an unflattering assessment of Canada’s declining international influence and reputation. They are apparently draft « transition » documents, which the federal bureaucracy prepares before every election.
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Canada’s Defence Spending Is Now Less than Half of NATO’s Target 0
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- 24 septembre 2015
Last year I blogged about the decline in Canadian military spending as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The most recent figures at that time were for 2013. I noted that defence spending had fallen to 1.00 percent of …
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A Foreign Policy for the Future 0
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- 5 mars 2015
In the March issue of the Literary Review of Canada, I write about the future of Canada’s foreign policy in an open letter to the party leader who wins the 2015 federal election.

Here’s an excerpt:

Rather than maintaining
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Canadian Mission Creep in Iraq? A CIPS Debate – Part 1 0
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- 30 janvier 2015
For Parts 2 and 3 of this CIPS debate, see the posts by Thomas Juneau and Philippe Lagassé.

Published in the Globe and Mail, January 29, 2015We recently learned that Canadian troops in Iraq are spending about …
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Evolution or Escalation? Canada’s Military Operation in Iraq 0
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- 26 janvier 2015
In a new CIPS policy brief on Canada’s war in Iraq, Roland Paris addresses the following questions:
- Is Canada engaged in ground combat?
- Have we witnessed mission creep?
- Why should Canada (and other Western countries) limit their participation in ground
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The Greatest Risk to UN Peace Operations 0
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- 17 décembre 2014
The greatest risk to United Nations peace operations is not operational failure, but the growing divergence of opinion among countries that mandate, finance and supply personnel to these operations regarding the purposes and practices of peacekeeping itself.

The UN currently …
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Is It Possible to Meet ‘The Responsibility to Protect’?0
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- 10 décembre 2014
Published on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog, December 9, 2014

These are difficult days for defenders of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which holds that the international community must be prepared to act when countries “manifestly fail …
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