Par Halil Karaveli
La Turquie était censée représenter un « modèle » pour le Moyen-Orient. Pour l’Occident en quête d’un antidote à l’islamisme, le pays a incarné les espoirs de laïcité et de démocratie: La preuve qu’un pays puisse être …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThere was nothing said on the campaign trail, nothing promised in the election platform, nothing laid down in the ministers’ mandate letters made public after the Trudeau government came into office.
But as the Liberals struggle to define a revamped …
EN SAVOIR PLUSBy Eleonora Mattiacci, Amherst College
In 2015, two momentous rapprochements took place on the international stage. In July, the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations. In December, Pakistan hosted a surprise visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, …
EN SAVOIR PLUSIf Canadians take notice of one election this year, it should be the Taiwanese elections of January 16. After eight years of rule by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and unprecedented economic rapprochement with China, the Taiwanese elected Tsai Ing-wen …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Srdjan Vucetic
The Trudeau government is giving itself twelve months to come up with a new defence document—most likely a Strategy, but quite possibly a White Paper combined with a Statement. Apart from setting out Department of National Defence …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPete (Paul Gross), Ryan (Rossif Sutherland), and Jennifer (Christine Horne) in Hyena Road
Par David Mutimer
In 2010 Christopher Dornan argued that “Alone among G8 nations, Canada apparently has no great appetite for making war movies.” While that observation is …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Paul Robinson
Power is shifting worldwide. As previously less developed economies grow at a faster rate than those of the West, Western states are becoming relatively less powerful. It is in the West’s interest, therefore, to use the years …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Philippe Bourbeau
The newly elected Trudeau government seems to be moving quickly on one of its promises made during the federal election campaign: to accept 25,000 Syrians by January 1, 2016.
On November 9, while announcing the formation of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar John Mundy
It won’t be easy for Canada to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran, but it’s worth the trouble.
In September 2012, the Harper government suspended diplomatic relations with Iran, closed the Canadian embassy in Tehran and expelled Iran’s …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Paul Robinson
Although in recent weeks the attention of many has shifted to events in Syria, the war in Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, has not entirely ended. Fighting continues to kill two or three people each week, and the …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Stephen Baranyi
L’arrivée d’un nouveau gouvernement à Ottawa offre au Canada la possibilité de se repositionner dans les États fragiles et les sociétés en conflit (ÉFSC) comme l’Afghanistan, Haïti et le Soudan du Sud – où persistent de faibles …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPar Alexandra Gheciu
NATO has just announced that it will soon put forward proposals for a new « southern strategy, » in response to growing instability in the Middle East and Russia’s growing military presence south of the Bosphorus. According …
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