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Event Report: The Arab Spring, One Year Later
- 24 janvier 2012
On January 18, a CIPS discussion panel brought together Omar Ashour (Exeter University and Brookings Doha Centre), Barak Barfi (New America Foundation) and Peter Jones (University of Ottawa) to take stock of events in countries affected by the ‘Arab Spring’ …
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If Only We Could Take the Politics Out….
- 23 janvier 2012
‘If only we could take the politics out’ has become a ubiquitous cry in contemporary political life. This can be seen everywhere, but Barack Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is a classic instance. It has been decried from …
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Les propos inquiétants de Stephen Harper sur l’Iran
- 22 janvier 2012
Le premier ministre Stephen Harper prépare-t-il le public canadien à un éventuel conflit avec l’Iran? Dans deux entrevues récentes (ici et ici), il a « sonné l’alarme » à propos de la possibilité d’un Iran doté d’un arsenal …
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Examen de la politique étrangère : temps pour un grand coup
- 21 janvier 2012
Bien que les motifs semblent flous et que les paramètres ne soient toujours pas connus du public, les fonctionnaires s’affairent à un examen de la politique étrangère dans l’édifice Lester B. Pearson à Ottawa. Le moment est bien choisi, étant …
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Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender
- 20 janvier 2012
In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries.
The crux …
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CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes
- 19 janvier 2012
A column in today’s Ottawa Citizen describes new levels of politicization, ineffectiveness and obfuscation at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). None of this is particularly surprising, since that agency’s misfortunes—largely due to its successive political masters—have been well-known for …
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Libya Intervention of 2011: A Victory With Asterisks
- 10 janvier 2012
This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Quarterly Review.
The grotesque display of Muammar Qaddafi’s bloodied corpse in Sirte, Libya, where he was captured and killed, and later in …
EN SAVOIR PLUSLa 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
