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La révolution conservatrice
- 10 janvier 2012
par Justin Massie
Quel bilan annuel peut-on dresser de la politique étrangère du gouvernement Harper ? Grâce à la majorité parlementaire obtenue en mai dernier, le premier ministre bénéficie d’une immense autonomie politique – une « dictature bienveillante » selon …
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Nothing Much Will Change: The New U.S. Military Strategy
- 10 janvier 2012
The recently-published new U.S. military strategy, entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, attracted a great deal of attention last week, with some critics denouncing what they claimed were excessive cuts in defence spending, and others …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThe Queen is the Canadian Crown
- 10 janvier 2012
by Philippe Lagassé
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 9 janvier 2012
Should Canada abandon its constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Several commentators and notable politicians think so.
Accustomed to seeing the monarchy as a …
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Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i
- 9 janvier 2012
Par Allan Rock et Lloyd Axworthy
With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice. The …
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The Total Surveillance Society Approaches
- 22 décembre 2011
…EN SAVOIR PLUSThis commentary appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 22, 2011.
We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens
What Contracting Out Security Says About the Canadian Foreign Service
- 21 décembre 2011
A small article in several newspapers this month carried an item noting that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade had solicited bids for threat assessments in 174 countries. The assessments would canvass possible threats to Canada’s missions abroad …
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What Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean
- 21 décembre 2011
Par Philippe Lagassé et Srdjan Vucetic
The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a …
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Tap Immigrants to Help Shape Foreign Policy
- 20 décembre 2011
Par Tom Axworthy, John Monahan et Natalie Brender
Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 20 décembre 2011.
As Canada’s focus on Libya shifts from the drama of regime change to the challenges of peace building and reconstruction, could the …
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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011
- 16 décembre 2011
In my role as CIPS Blog editor, I’m happy to present what is probably not the first, and likely won’t be the last, ‘best-reads’ list that you’ll be seeing this year. However, it does have the virtue of being distinctive …
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Africa: No Longer « The Hopeless Continent »
- 13 décembre 2011
“Africa Rising” declared The Economist’s front page last week. How things change! Eleven years ago, the front page of the same prestigious weekly declared Africa “The Hopeless Continent”. Then a young soldier brandishing an RPG peered menacingly at the …
EN SAVOIR PLUSElle court, elle court, la rumeur à propos de la dévaluation du franc CFA
- 8 décembre 2011
Depuis quelques jours, alors que la crise de la dette publique fait rage en Europe, une rumeur persistante à propos d’une très prochaine dévaluation du franc CFA est dans toutes les conversations. Rappelons que dans le cadre de l’accord monétaire …
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Canada-U.S. Perimeter Plan: From Aspiration to Action?
- 8 décembre 2011
Yesterday, Canada and the United States announced a security and economic cooperation plan similar in style and substance to the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It’s worth recalling, therefore, that the SPP died of neglect shortly …
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