• Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

    Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

    So the Canadian government is apparently planning, according to numerous media reports, to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Minister, Peter Kent, refuses to confirm or deny the reports. The surprise should perhaps precisely be that this is not a surprise. Before the rumours, it was unthinkable that a government, especially a ‘good

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  • The Austerity Trap

    The Austerity Trap

    As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity.  The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In Canada, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has reiterated that the solution to the current economic crisis,

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  • No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia

    No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia

    This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that  had left more than 100,000 people dead and two million displaced. While successful in stopping the bloodshed

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  • Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning

    Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning

    The Government last week paid tribute to Canadian Forces who served in the recently-concluded NATO mission in Libya. It was a welcome gesture to those who serve Canada abroad, often with little or no recognition at all. And it was consistent with the Government’s new emphasis on muscularity in foreign policy, replacing the nuanced reliance

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