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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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWhat 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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Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol
- 6 décembre 2011
So the Canadian government is apparently planning, according to numerous media reports, to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Minister, Peter Kent, refuses to confirm or deny the reports.
The surprise should perhaps precisely be that this …
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The Austerity Trap
- 4 décembre 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In …
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No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia
- 1 décembre 2011
This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that had left …
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Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning
- 30 novembre 2011
The Government last week paid tribute to Canadian Forces who served in the recently-concluded NATO mission in Libya. It was a welcome gesture to those who serve Canada abroad, often with little or no recognition at all. And it was …
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Missiles and Mistrust in Europe
- 28 novembre 2011
At the NATO Lisbon Summit in 2010, the U.S. and its allies expressed the hope that Russia would become a partner in a new missile defense system designed to protect Europe from a nuclear-armed ‘rogue’ state such as Iran. Those …
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