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The International Political Economy of High-Speed Rail: Lessons for Canada from Abroad
Canada recently announced plans to build Alto, a high-speed rail line connecting Toronto to Quebec City, and cities in between. The project has been pitched as a nation-building infrastructure project that will link Canada’s largest metropolitan areas, contribute to economic growth, and bolster tourism, all while reducing congestion and bringing down transport greenhouse gas emissions.

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Book Launch – Developing Hegemony: World Order and the Transnational Field of Development
At a time of multiple challenges to the liberal international order, development has become one of the most contentious areas of world politics. Dominant powers have reduced their assistance and overtly fused development with national and security interests, while rising powers like China have become major donors promoting new models and norms.

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Blog - The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away
As the relationship between the United States and Canada continues to degrade, it now comes at the expense of each country’s industrial security. Last month, the Pentagon announced the unilateral suspension of the 86-year-old Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense in response to what the White House sees as Ottawa’s failure to present a credible plan to spend 3.5 percent of GDP on defense by 2035.

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CIPS Best Blog Award 2026: Public Voting Now Open
It’s time to vote for the winner of the CIPS Best Blog Award! The CIPS Best Blog Award is designed to recognize the best blog written by the CIPS community during the previous academic year. This is the seventh year that we will be giving out the award. The 2026 award will go to a blog that was written between June 2025 and May 2026. Voting is now open and will remain open until Wednesday, September 23rd.

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Par Srdjan Vucetic & Justin Massie Alors que les relations entre les États-Unis et le Canada continuent de se détériorer, c’est désormais la sécurité industrielle des deux pays qui en fait les frais. Le mois dernier, le Pentagone a annoncé la suspension unilatérale de la Commission permanente mixte de défense, instituée il y a 86

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Book Launch – Developing Hegemony: World Order and the Transnational Field of DevelopmentRita Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams, Vincent Pouliot

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The International Political Economy of High-Speed Rail: Lessons for Canada from AbroadAnthony Perl, Andy Goetz , Geoffrey Dudley, Jessamyn Abel, Natalia Buier

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How to Win a Trade War — Conversation with Chad BownChad P. Bown, Mélanie Raymond

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How Optimists Triumph and Change HappensRobin Collins, Alex Neve

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Canada and the Middle Power ChallengeNisha Shah, Cesar Jaramillo, Robin Collins, Andrew Rasiulis, Peggy Mason, Tariq Rauf, Branka Marijan, Sam Vaez, Ernie Regehr, Walter Dorn, Jessica West, Paul Meyer, Michael Manulak, David Angell

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The International Political Economy of High-Speed Rail: Lessons for Canada from Abroad

Book Launch – Developing Hegemony: World Order and the Transnational Field of Development

Blog - The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away

CIPS Best Blog Award 2026: Public Voting Now Open

Latest From the Blog

L’alliance industrielle de défense que Washington est en train de saborder0

India–Canada relations: Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, and the Indo-Pacific

CIPS Best Blog Award 2026: Public Voting Now Open

Modern Warfare Is Changing – and So Is the Concept of Militarism

Canada Didn’t Chicken Out. We Did the Right Thing

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