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An Intervention Ahead in Mali?
- 30 octobre 2012
These days, when Western politicians or analysts discuss the possibility and likely consequences of an international intervention, they tend to refer to Syria. This is understandable, given the gravity and complexity of the crisis unfolding there. But the focus on …
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A Reflection on Responsibility: What Does Syria Mean for R2P?
- 26 octobre 2012
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock
Publié dans le Diplomat Magazine, 4 octobre 2012
The world has watched in frustration as the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad of Syria has turned its weapons against its own citizens to suppress …
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Turning Scientists into Sybils
- 26 octobre 2012
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 25 octobre 2012.
Danger is ubiquitous but accurate and timely warnings of it are relatively rare; proper risk assessment is one of the great policy challenges of our time. A …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThe 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 …
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