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Que faire des amis autoritaires du Canada ?
- 14 juillet 2020
Peu avant l’élection des nouveaux membres non-permanents du Conseil de sécurité le mois dernier, le Premier ministre Justin Trudeau s’est entretenu avec le Président rwandais Paul Kagame. Le communiqué canadien produit à la suite de cette rencontre décrivait la relation …
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30 Years After Tiananmen: Democracy More Urgent than Ever
- 30 mai 2019
In early May, US State Department Director of Policy Planning Kiron Skinner was rebuked in China’s English-language media for characterizing US–China relations as a “clash of civilizations.” Skinner’s rhetoric reflects a Cold War mentality that overlooks centuries of mutual contact …
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1
- 12 avril 2019
“We judge it very likely that Canadian voters will encounter some form of foreign cyber interference related to the 2019 federal election.” So says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, in a …
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 2
- 12 avril 2019
Part 1 of this blog dealt with the fairly generic alarms raised by the CSE regarding election tampering by foreign cyber threats. As far as the specific threat to Canada is concerned, CSE says the following:
« Since the 2015 …
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“Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans
- 5 février 2019
By Rosana Lezama Sanchez
Venezuelan emigrants always talk about how much they miss the country they left behind. I returned to Caracas in August of 2018, but I too miss Venezuela. The Venezuela that I grew up in was certainly …
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A Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and Economics, 2004 and 2018, Part 1
- 23 janvier 2019
The survey of the Afghan people, undertaken by the Asia Foundation every year since 2004, is an important barometer, tracking opinions on social, political, economic, and security conditions in their country. The survey findings provide a longitudinal picture of how …
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A Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and Economics, 2004 and 2018, Part 2
- 23 janvier 2019
In Part 1 of this blog, we looked at some results from the Asia Foundation’s annual survey of the Afghan people, comparing the results from 2004 and 2018 on such issues as national mood, fear for personal safety, and satisfaction …
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Democracy’s Promise Unfulfilled while Violence against Women in Politics Persists
- 10 décembre 2018
In October 2018, the Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls presented a report to the UN General Assembly recognizing violence against women in politics (VAWP) as a human rights violation …
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The Alt-Right Gets its Own University
- 6 décembre 2018
Early in September, a new institution of higher learning opened its doors in Europe. In itself, this is not usually a particularly noteworthy event. But this is no run-of-the-mill college, nor are its founders conventional academics. The school in question …
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Blue Wave Swamps Taiwan Elections
- 28 novembre 2018
Taiwan’s mid-term elections on 24 November brought a renewed “blue wave” to the island democracy. In this case, the blues are the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) and allies who favour rapprochement with China. The greens are the …
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How Do You Make Donald Trump Laugh? Democrats Should Think About It.
- 23 novembre 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman
Many times in the past two years, people have told me they’ve never seen Donald Trump laugh.
So, what would it take?
A sure bet would be if — after the mid-term elections that bore very ominous …
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Lest We Forget Why We Fought World War I
- 7 novembre 2018
Lauchlan T. Munro
School of International Development and Global Studies
On Remembrance Day, I think of my two grandfathers and my two great uncles who served in the Canadian army in World War I. I remember their sacrifice. But I …
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