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The Iranians We Left Behind
- 26 octobre 2012
by John Mundy
Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 25 octobre 2012
When Canada closed its embassy in Tehran last month, it wasn’t just Canadian diplomats who were affected. We left behind a small number of local staff, and …
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Beyond 2015: MDGs, SDGs and Busan’s Global Partnership
- 25 octobre 2012
Despite a still-struggling global economy, one in which contagion from the developed world is now enveloping emerging economies, there is a boom in international donor-recipient diplomacy. Globalization is forcing us to recognize that there is no longer easily divisible rich …
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Romney’s Minority Report
- 22 octobre 2012
Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the …
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Only Two Cheers for Religious Freedom
- 15 octobre 2012
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, le 15 octobre 2012
Discussing democracy in his 1938 essay « What I Believe » E. M. Forster provocatively writes that « (t)wo cheers are quite enough: there is no …
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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
- 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
- 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: …
EN SAVOIR PLUSShould 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSTeaching 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWill the ‘Future of Europe’ Group Save the EU?
- 1 octobre 2012
…EN SAVOIR PLUS« 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
Event Report: Discussion on the Will to Intervene
- 1 octobre 2012
On September 24, CIPS (in conjunction with the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies at Concordia University) presented a panel discussion in honour of the Will to Intervene Day, which was proclaimed in the City of Ottawa by Mayor Jim Watson. …
EN SAVOIR PLUSJohn Baird on Human Rights in Foreign Policy
- 27 septembre 2012
John Baird’s speech on September 14 at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations may be long on benign self-congratulation, which goes down well when speaking to Canadian audiences. But at least it sheds some light on “the untold story of …
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