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Policy Brief: Amidst the Ruins of Agreements: Can Arms Control Be Revived?
With New START expired, warhead numbers rising and nuclear threats normalized, the arms control architecture built over five decades has collapsed. It cannot be restored to what it was. The diplomatic machinery has stalled, but the technical infrastructure beneath it—IAEA safeguards and the CTBTO’s monitoring network—still functions. That gap is where progress is possible.

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Book Presentation: A Global History of Right-Wing Terrorism
In his newly published book, A Global History of Right-Wing Terrorism, Tobias Hof traces the global history of right-wing terrorism from the mid-nineteenth century to today. In this talk, he draws on the wide range of historical and social case studies from the book to explore how terrorist movements have evolved, adapted, and forged transnational connections across time and continents.

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Blog - Images in Science: Using AI Responsibly and Creatively
Images shape how we understand science even before we might have read a single sentence. They tell us what research looks like, where it happens, and, perhaps most importantly, who does it. On October 6th, 2026, I had the opportunity to explore these questions with participants at the University of Ottawa during a workshop titled Reflecting on Images in Science – Using AI Responsibly and Creatively, hosted by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS).

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Policy Report: Terrorist Threats to Canada Originating in Central Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan
CIPS Research Associate, Dr. Faramarz Tamanna, has written a new policy report. He argues that Canada should move from a reactive and listing-centred counter-terrorism posture to a network-centred, interests-centred and resilience-centred one, making the Canadian Threat-to-National Interest Transmission Matrix, updated every 90 days by an interdepartmental mechanism, the basis for decisions on listing, sanctions, intelligence resources and prevention programming. He then lists seven pillars.

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Images shape how we understand science even before we might have read a single sentence. They tell us what research looks like, where it happens, and, perhaps most importantly, who does it. On October 6th, 2026, I had the opportunity to explore these questions with participants at the University of Ottawa during a workshop titled

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