Wherefore the Air Force? A Review of Robert Farley’s « Grounded »0

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• 24 juin 2014

Robert Farley, Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).  The future of the U.S. military may be in Canada’s past, contends Robert Farley. The book’s main argument is that …

Understanding the Great War0

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• 1 avril 2014

Published in the Ottawa Citizen, March 31, 2014

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914 set off a chain of events that a few weeks later led to an all-out war involving virtually …

Themed Journal Issue on « The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter »0

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• 29 avril 2013

Par Kim Richard Nossal (Université Queen’s) et Srdjan Vucetic

In the Maclean’s annual list of “99 stupid things the government did with your money”, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears as exhibit 46:

Jet lagged: After dissing reports from

What’s New in the EU: the Euro Crisis and the 28th Member State0

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• 16 avril 2013

The European Union has never not been in crisis. Whether “this time is different”—and “this time” refers to ongoing iterations of the eurozone crisis—is a question that lends itself to all sorts of speculation along the lines of an …

Bang Bang Bangalore: India’s Military Spending Spree0

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• 8 février 2013

“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is one of my favourite episodes of The Simpsons. First aired in 2006, it is an important contribution to North American and global popular culture’s celebration of post-liberalization India that began in the 1990s. In …

Nuclear Power: Chronicle of a Death Foretold0

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• 3 décembre 2012

Extreme events have the ability to radically change political, moral, technical and other debates that shape what governments say and do. The effect of the 2011 Fukushima disaster on national energy strategies was so far-reaching that it led many to …

Obama’s Ohio Report0

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• 8 novembre 2012

My Ohioans did it again.  In every election since 1964 (and almost every time since 1904), the winner of this state ended up taking the presidency – hence the clichés “America’s bellwether” and “as Ohio goes, so goes America”.  Having …

Romney’s Minority Report0

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• 22 octobre 2012

Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters.  The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the …

The Future of Flying: A View from Farnborough0

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• 11 juillet 2012

All eyes are turning to the London Olympics—but for people in the aerospace industry, Britain’s biggest event this summer is the Farnborough International Airshow. At this event (the 48th iteration of the biannual show run by Britain’s defense and aerospace …

Le CÉPI lance une série de séminaires en théorie internationale pour étudiants diplômés0

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• 16 février 2012

Tout comme ses réseaux frères parrainés par le Centre d’études en politiques internationales (CÉPI), le Réseau en théorie internationale (RTI) a pour but d’offrir aux étudiants l’occasion de partager leurs idées et de former une communauté de recherche. À cette …

Special Journal Issue on « The F-35: Right for Canada? »0

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• 9 février 2012

In 2001, the United States government selected Lockheed Martin (over Boeing) to lead in the development of the F-35, a fifth-generation fighter aircraft for use by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Along with several other U.S. allies, Canada …