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Harper, Baird and Multilateral Cooperation
- 5 octobre 2013
Familiar stories came out of New York over the past two weeks as the global community assembled for the annual UN General Assembly debates. John Baird’s speech on September 30, while appalling in style and policy content, was free of …
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When Prodigal Jihadis Come Home
- 1 octobre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 30, 2013
It’s getting to be a familiar theme that Canadians’ global origins and global mobility can intersect frighteningly with currents in Islamist terrorism. Two Canadians were killed in this month’s Al Shabab …
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- 30 septembre 2013
by John Mundy
Published in the Globe and Mail, September 30, 2013
For the first time in many years there are hopeful signs that Iran is prepared to negotiate a comprehensive deal on its nuclear program with the United …
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Relief Not Regret Over Harper’s UN Absence
- 29 septembre 2013
John Baird’s address to the UN today, his third, is likely to cover familiar ground: long on rhetoric, short on constructive policy. Regarding the important developments last week on Syria and Iran, Baird will insist that both countries will be …
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Forget the Public Diplomacy, Iran and the U.S. Have a Long Road Ahead
- 26 septembre 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, September 26, 2013.
The past weeks have seen a shift in Iran-U.S. relations. Instead of the usual bombast we are seeing measured, even respectful points from the two presidents. We hear that Iran’s …
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Terror 2.0: Kenya’s #Westgate and a New Face of Terrorism
- 26 septembre 2013
The harrowing images from Nairobi’s burning and blood-soaked Westgate Mall have come not just from journalists but from the cellphones nearly everyone in the building was carrying. Twitter has been alive with updates from all sides: from the Kenyan Defense …
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Event report: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter
- 19 septembre 2013
On September 12, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid spoke at CIPS on Pakistan’s current challenges and its prospects for coming years. The present situation, he declared at the outset, is grim. Three separate insurgencies are causing mayhem; the economy is …
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Harper Must Square the Provincial Circle on CETA
- 18 septembre 2013
Earlier this month, as he was leaving the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that there was still no deal on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the …
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R2P Down But Not Out After Libya and Syria
- 18 septembre 2013
By Gareth Evans
Published on the openDemocracy blog, September 9, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria, guest edited by David Petrasek.
The lack of consensus in the …
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With Syria, the US and Britan are Trapped in the Past
- 17 septembre 2013
Published in the Huffington Post Canada, September 16, 2013
William Faulkner’s most brilliant insight was his quip that « The past is never dead, it is not even past. » It is the past that is now befuddling the …
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R2P: Hindrance Not A Help in the Syrian Crisis
- 17 septembre 2013
Published on the openDemocracy blog September 13, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria guest edited by David Petrasek.
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine was developed to forge consensus …
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Syrians Suffer ‘Our’ Collective Failure
- 10 septembre 2013
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy
Published in the Globe and Mail, September 10, 2013
Almost a month has passed since the world learned that chemical weapons were used against the Syrian people. Apart from florid rhetoric, there still …
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