• Examen de la politique étrangère : temps pour un grand coup

    Examen de la politique étrangère : temps pour un grand coup

    Bien que les motifs semblent flous et que les paramètres ne soient toujours pas connus du public, les fonctionnaires s’affairent à un examen de la politique étrangère dans l’édifice Lester B. Pearson à Ottawa. Le moment est bien choisi, étant donné que la majorité du gouvernement Harper au Parlement lui confère une liberté d’action appréciable.

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  • Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender

    Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender

    In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries. The crux of Natalie’s objections is as follows: « [A]s for the notion that damage-mitigating projects should be

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  • CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes

    CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes

    A column in today’s Ottawa Citizen describes new levels of politicization, ineffectiveness and obfuscation at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). None of this is particularly surprising, since that agency’s misfortunes—largely due to its successive political masters—have been well-known for more than a decade. But some of the article’s criticism is misplaced. In particular, the

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  • Libya Intervention of 2011: A Victory With Asterisks

    Libya Intervention of 2011: A Victory With Asterisks

    This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Quarterly Review. The grotesque display of Muammar Qaddafi’s bloodied corpse in Sirte, Libya, where he was captured and killed, and later in a Misrata meat locker, did little to build confidence in the commitment of Libya’s rebels to

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