• What Defence Policy is Really About

    What Defence Policy is Really About

    Forum: Le MDN et les conseils des universitaires sur les politiques Dans ce forum, les collaborateurs au Blogue du CÉPI réagissent à la publication d’un rapport, rédigé par Douglas Bland et Richard Shimooka de l’Université Queen’s, selon lequel le ministère de la Défense nationale porte peu d’attention à l’opinion des universitaires. Pour lire d’autres contributions

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  • The Ripple Effects of Ghadafi’s Death

    The Ripple Effects of Ghadafi’s Death

    Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 21 octobre 2011. Although the images of Moammar Gadhafi’s body being dragged through the streets are disturbing, one can understand why his death is being deliriously welcomed in Libya. Often regarded as a clown in the West, Colonel Gadhafi was a brutal tyrant. His death removes the slim chance

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  • Why Israel Made the Deal

    Why Israel Made the Deal

    L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 20 octobre 2011. In 1991, the Italian parliament passed a law prohibiting anybody not only from paying ransom but also from even negotiating with kidnappers. Colombia later followed suit. The legislation derived from the entirely logical argument that if fewer people paid ransom there would be fewer

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  • Virtue or Vice?  Human Rights Diplomacy under the Tory Government

    Virtue or Vice? Human Rights Diplomacy under the Tory Government

    Foreign Minister John Baird’s speech to the UN General Assembly in September was widely reported for the forceful manner in which he condemned the Palestinians’ ’unilateral’ bid for UN membership. Largely unremarked upon, however, was the Minister’s emphasis on human rights—apparently the new lodestar of Canadian foreign policy. Echoing remarks made by Prime Minister Harper

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