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Policy Experts Submit Report to NATO Secretary General
- 10 juin 2014
In March 2014, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, appointed ten independent policy experts to a panel and asked them to provide advice on the future of the transatlantic bond. The panel included a …
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A Do and Don’t List for the UN’s New Human Rights High Commissioner
- 9 juin 2014
Published on openDemocracy.net on June 7, 2014
The Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein (“Prince Zeid”), has just been nominated as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The outgoing High …
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Media Bias Frames Western Reporting on Ukraine
- 5 juin 2014
In a 1991 article published in the Journal of Communications, Robert Entman of the George Washington University examined how the American media framed international news. He compared coverage of two similar events: the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight …
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Harper’s Heroic Ukraine Message Does Not Reflect Reality
- 3 juin 2014
Published in the Globe and Mail, June 3, 2014
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Europe for the G7 summit and anniversary of D-Day, the gap between Canada’s outspoken rhetoric and its diminishing capabilities in international affairs is …
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Nine New Takes on Canada’s International Future
- 2 juin 2014
On May 23-24, CIPS and the Canadian International Council (CIC) co-hosted the Ottawa Forum, which brought together a remarkable array of presenters, commenters and attendees to the University of Ottawa to discuss the future of Canada’s international policy. The …
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Imaging a More Ambitious Canada
- 2 juin 2014
By Taylor Owen and Roland Paris
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 2014
The world has undergone enormous changes since Ottawa last conducted a foreign policy review nearly a decade ago: the rise of China and other emerging …
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Before We Get Carried Away: Politics, Security and Nigeria’s Missing Girls
- 22 mai 2014
It is rare that Africa captures the attention of the world. Its everyday suffering is normally barely a ripple on the global airwaves. Not so with the kidnapped schoolgirls of Chibok. By now, the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has been retweeted over …
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- 15 mai 2014
A decade ago, The Spectator magazine commissioned me to write an article arguing that the British government ought to hold a referendum on the proposed new constitution for the European Union. I went further, and proposed that if the government …
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Security Certificates Are Flawed Tools
- 15 mai 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 2014
It was not a jailhouse door that slammed in Mohamed Harkat’s face this week, but something ultimately more definitive: a Supreme Court ruling. Harkat has lost a long legal battle that …
EN SAVOIR PLUSIs Canada Pulling Its Weight in NATO?
- 9 mai 2014
When NATO’s military commander, General Philip Breedlove, visited Ottawa this week, he noted that Canada was one of the first countries to contribute military equipment and forces to NATO’s temporary deployment of land, sea and air assets to Eastern Europe, …
EN SAVOIR PLUSParliament Neglects its Duty to Debate Military Deployments
- 7 mai 2014
by Philippe Lagassé
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 2014
It is easy to blame Parliament’s failings on an excess of executive power in our system of government. In certain cases, however, the legislature is the source of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSQuick Take: What’s the Significance of Ukraine/Russia So Far?
- 30 avril 2014
What’s the most significant outcome to date of developments in Ukraine/Russia?
CIPS faculty were invited to give brief responses to this question—still very much a development in progress, as many of them point out. Here’s a range of strikingly disparate …
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