• Harper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?

    Harper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?

    Was the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the United States in response to the delay of the regulatory approval of the Keystone pipeline? 

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  • Honing Canada’s Approach to Interventions

    Par Roméo Dallaire et Philippe Lagassé Publié dans le Embassy Magazine, 16 novembre 2011. Canada and its NATO allies performed admirably during their recent intervention in Libya. They acted to prevent a predatory regime from potentially committing a mass atrocity; they addressed a challenge before it became an unmitigated crisis. Although a peaceful transition to

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  • Taiwan and the UNFCCC: A Modest Proposal

    Taiwan and the UNFCCC: A Modest Proposal

    The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which entered force in 1994 and has been ratified by almost all countries, is the leading international institution working on climate change. The Conference of the Parties (COP) supervises implementation of the UNFCCC. To date, the Convention’s major achievement is the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to limit

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  • R2P after Libya: A Cause Only the Morally Naïve Can Support?

    R2P after Libya: A Cause Only the Morally Naïve Can Support?

    Contrarianism is always useful for making a splashy headline—and it was perhaps that impulse that led journalist and author David Rieff to publish a New York Times op-ed this week with the ominous title “R2P, R.I.P.”. “At first glance,” he writes “the intervention in Libya looks like a textbook case of how the new U.N.

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