The Senkaku Islands: A Forgotten Flashpoint in the Western Pacific

• 12 mars 2012

The uninhabited Senkaku Islands of Japan, claimed by both China and Taiwan under the name Diaoyutai, may seem of minor significance to observers outside the region. These eight uninhabited islands have a land area of only 6.3 km² and …

Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights

• 9 mars 2012

On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared …

The KONY2012 Campaign and Its Critics

• 8 mars 2012

Guest contributor: REX BRYNEN
Professor of Political Science, McGill University

In recent days, a social media-based campaign called KONY2012 has gone viral with worldwide calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). …

Exploring Global Governance Networks

• 7 mars 2012

How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding …

Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

• 5 mars 2012

CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012.
By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation.

• The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out.
• The international community must invest in a successful

Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?

• 5 mars 2012

For all the expressions of friendship and support between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the two have different thresholds over what would lead them to attack Iran and different visions of how the issue of Iran’s potential …

Why the People Wanted Putin

• 5 mars 2012

L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 4 mars 2012.

‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most …

Comprendre l’Iran : le Printemps arabe, la question nucléaire et la réponse canadienne

• 2 mars 2012

Note du CÉPI No.15, mars 2012.
Par PETER JONES.

• L’Iran est en eaux troubles à l’interne et la situation s’aggrave, mais il est impossible de prédire combien de temps le régime tiendra.
• L’Iran est sortie grande perdante du Printemps arabe

Bad News from Afghanistan

• 27 février 2012

These days, statements issued by NATO and U.S. officials tend to portray an optimistic picture of the situation in Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgency remains on the back foot, that the transition to Afghan lead (the process by which security …