• A Peace Prize for the EU

    A Peace Prize for the EU

    • 15 octobre 2012

    The award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is curious. The stated reasons are fair enough on the face of it: the EU has helped to create a stable and peaceful Europe, to extend democracy and …

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  • The Central Conundrum of Baird’s UN Speech

    The Central Conundrum of Baird’s UN Speech

    • 8 octobre 2012

    It’s too easy to dismiss John Baird’s October 1 speech to the UN General Assembly as simply another exercise in appealing to the party’s base. True, it did precisely that, capturing headlines back home as a “scathing rebuke” to the …

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  • Une diplomatie verbeuse

    Une diplomatie verbeuse

    • 7 octobre 2012

    par Justin Massie

    Publié dans La Presse, le 5 octobre 2012

    Lors de son dernier discours aux Nations unies, le ministre John Baird a exposé les fondements de la politique internationale de son gouvernement. Elle repose sur deux piliers: …

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  • Should Canada Promote Religious Freedom?

    Should Canada Promote Religious Freedom?

    • 2 octobre 2012

    Guest contributor: ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

     In the United States, religious freedom is described as the ‘first freedom’: a fundamental human right and a sine qua non of democratic politics. Americans, we are …

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  • Teaching Hobbes

    • 2 octobre 2012

    by Philippe Lagassé

    After a month of lectures on Plato and Machiavelli, today I’m starting to teach Hobbes in my second-year undergraduate course on philosophical perspectives on conflict and rights. Personally, I find that this is the most interesting part …

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  • Will the ‘Future of Europe’ Group Save the EU?

    Will the ‘Future of Europe’ Group Save the EU?

    • 1 octobre 2012

    « The European Union has reached a decisive juncture. The ongoing sovereign debt crisis and the ever accelerating process of globalization pose an unprecedented dual challenge for Europe. We will have to master it if we want our continent to

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