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Baird’s Tough Talk on Human Rights Rings Hollow in Bahrain
- 10 décembre 2013
Canada’s “principled” foreign policy keeps running into problems in Bahrain, the Gulf monarchy that violently suppressed pro-democracy protests in 2011.
When Foreign Minister John Baird visited the country in April, he made no public comment about Bahrain’s repressive practices, including …
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Is Canada a Responsible Global Partner?
- 4 décembre 2013
In anticipation of the December 5th book launch of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, CIPS posed the following question to former Prime Minister Paul Martin (who will be speaking at the event): “What does the recently announced DFATD …
EN SAVOIR PLUSHow Canada Goes to War
- 3 décembre 2013
by Philippe Lagassé
Canada’s military training mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. When the Canadian Forces are next sent overseas, members of Parliament will likely vote on the mission. The Conservative government has made it a point to consult …
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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade
- 28 novembre 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over …
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Iran is a Process. Pay Attention, Canada
- 28 novembre 2013
The interim Iranian nuclear deal is just that: interim. It is not the final word on the Iranian nuclear problem; it buys time for a permanent solution to be negotiated.
Iran has agreed to temporarily constrain its nuclear program in …
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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa
- 26 novembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013
As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was …
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As Iran Opens to the World, Canada is Left Behind
- 25 novembre 2013
by John Mundy
Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013
The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. …
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Sexy Vanilla: Canada-EU Free Trade
- 14 novembre 2013
The same week that celebrity British street artist Banksy upset New Yorkers by saying the new World Trade Center is “vanilla…and looks like something they would build in Canada », an Economist headline stated, “Canada doesn’t get any sexier than …
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Canadian Foreign Policy for Dummies
- 12 novembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 11, 2013
So it’s come to this: not only are Canadian citizens being dumbed-down by political parties who treat them as narrow-minded consumerist taxpayers, but now the leading lights of Canada’s journalism establishment …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMissing in Action: What Happened to Canada’s Foreign Policy?
- 31 octobre 2013
In July 2011, shortly after Canadian voters handed the Conservatives a majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper observed that “since becoming prime minister…the thing that’s probably struck me the most in terms of my previous expectations—I don’t even know what …
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Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond Consistent Inconsistency?
- 18 octobre 2013
By David Black, Dalhousie University
A preview of David Black’s CIPS lecture on October 22, 2013
Among the various criticisms of the Harper government’s foreign policy, its presumed neglect or even abandonment of sub-Saharan Africa is among the most frequently …
EN SAVOIR PLUSHarper, 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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