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Political Legitimacy is What Matters in Ukraine’s Popular Referendums
- 15 mai 2014
A decade ago, The Spectator magazine commissioned me to write an article arguing that the British government ought to hold a referendum on the proposed new constitution for the European Union. I went further, and proposed that if the government …
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Security Certificates Are Flawed Tools
- 15 mai 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 2014
It was not a jailhouse door that slammed in Mohamed Harkat’s face this week, but something ultimately more definitive: a Supreme Court ruling. Harkat has lost a long legal battle that …
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Is Canada Pulling Its Weight in NATO?
- 9 mai 2014
When NATO’s military commander, General Philip Breedlove, visited Ottawa this week, he noted that Canada was one of the first countries to contribute military equipment and forces to NATO’s temporary deployment of land, sea and air assets to Eastern Europe, …
EN SAVOIR PLUSParliament Neglects its Duty to Debate Military Deployments
- 7 mai 2014
by Philippe Lagassé
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 2014
It is easy to blame Parliament’s failings on an excess of executive power in our system of government. In certain cases, however, the legislature is the source of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSQuick Take: What’s the Significance of Ukraine/Russia So Far?
- 30 avril 2014
What’s the most significant outcome to date of developments in Ukraine/Russia?
CIPS faculty were invited to give brief responses to this question—still very much a development in progress, as many of them point out. Here’s a range of strikingly disparate …
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CIDA’s Underspending: The Minister’s Explanations Don’t Add Up
- 28 avril 2014
While global foreign aid reached an all-time high in 2013, the Canadian government’s contributions fell by over 11%. Among the 28 industrialized countries belonging to the Development Assistance Committee, only debt-ridden Portugal cut aid more drastically than Canada. Not …
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The Ottawa Forum: Rethinking Canada’s International Strategy
- 27 avril 2014
(Cet évènement se déroulera en anglais.)
It’s been almost a decade since Canada conducted a foreign policy review.
The Ottawa Forum on May 23-24, co-organized by CIPS and the Canadian International Council, will bring together some of Canada’s most insightful …
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Ukraine: Another Example of the Dangerous Clash of Hegemons
- 15 avril 2014
A previous version of this essay was published in the Huffington Post on March 18, 2014
When the history of the early decades of the 21st century is written, it may well be called the era of multiple clashing …
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Canada Makes Palestinian Human Rights a Pawn in Mideast Peace Talks
- 10 avril 2014
As John Kerry’s deadline fast approaches for concluding a ‘Framework Agreement’ in the resuscitated Israel-Palestine negotiations, few are optimistic. Those disparaging the deal, or even the need for a deal, appear to have the upper hand in both camps. The …
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Afghanistan’s 2014 Election: A Referendum Against the Taliban
- 8 avril 2014
April 5 was the day of Afghanistan’s historic election, a milestone in its history. I saw men and women, young and old, lined up in the rain-damped city to vote from dawn to dusk, exercising their democratic rights. In 50 …
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The Curious Case of Jonathan Pollard
- 7 avril 2014
One of the stranger aspects of the current round of the interminable Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is the reported idea that the U.S. is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard as an inducement to keep the Israeli government at the peace table for …
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The Putin Book Club
- 3 avril 2014
“We must love all nations as we love our own,” writes Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov in his 1897 book The Justification of the Good. The “greatness and value” of nationality, he claims, lies “not in itself taken in …
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