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NATO Must Face Looming Challenges Now, Not Later
- 18 juin 2014
Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are grappling with big decisions as they prepare for their September summit in Wales. What stance should they adopt towards Russia? Should they keep the alliance’s doors open to new members? And what …
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Global Military Spending by Region
- 18 juin 2014
In previous posts, I presented charts illustrating the recent decline in Canadian military spending as a percentage of GDP, and comparing Canada to other NATO and G7 countries.
This post examines regional patterns in global military spending.* The charts …
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Where We Go From Here: Canada’s Strategic Opportunity
- 18 juin 2014
Published on OpenCanada.org, June 17, 2014
The Canadian Conference of Defence Associations Institute’s Strategic Outlook (SO) 2014 published in February has nearly been dated by developments taking place around the world. In light of recent events, I examine some …
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The June 14 Elections Confirm Afghans’ Verdict Against the Taliban
- 16 juin 2014
On the June 14 election day, Afghans again delivered an anti-Taliban verdict. Despite the strong Taliban offensive preceding the day, 7 million Afghans (60% of registered voters) cast their votes. True, the euphoria that dominated the first round was absent; …
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- 16 juin 2014
This chart might come as a surprise to some Canadians. Canada’s defence spending as a percentage of GDP has decreased since 2009 and is now lower than it was when the Conservative government took office. Although, as I noted in …
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Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit: What’s Still Missing?
- 11 juin 2014
By Rieky Stuart and Stephen Brown
Published on the McLeod Group Blog, June 10, 2014
The Canadian government’s recent Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit in Toronto has not lacked for cheerleaders, especially NGOs receiving funding under the …
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Is Afghanistan Set to Elect a Truly National President?
- 11 juin 2014
Afghanistan is getting ready to go to a second round of polls on June 14. The fairly peaceful first round (despite some irregularities and scattered violence in the outlying provinces) symbolized Afghans’ interest in supporting a democratic process to elect …
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- 10 juin 2014
In March 2014, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, appointed ten independent policy experts to a panel and asked them to provide advice on the future of the transatlantic bond. The panel included a …
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A Do and Don’t List for the UN’s New Human Rights High Commissioner
- 9 juin 2014
Published on openDemocracy.net on June 7, 2014
The Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein (“Prince Zeid”), has just been nominated as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The outgoing High …
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Media Bias Frames Western Reporting on Ukraine
- 5 juin 2014
In a 1991 article published in the Journal of Communications, Robert Entman of the George Washington University examined how the American media framed international news. He compared coverage of two similar events: the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight …
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Harper’s Heroic Ukraine Message Does Not Reflect Reality
- 3 juin 2014
Published in the Globe and Mail, June 3, 2014
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Europe for the G7 summit and anniversary of D-Day, the gap between Canada’s outspoken rhetoric and its diminishing capabilities in international affairs is …
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Nine New Takes on Canada’s International Future
- 2 juin 2014
On May 23-24, CIPS and the Canadian International Council (CIC) co-hosted the Ottawa Forum, which brought together a remarkable array of presenters, commenters and attendees to the University of Ottawa to discuss the future of Canada’s international policy. The …
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