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    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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  • The Disinformation Industry – A Cure Worse than the Disease?

    The Disinformation Industry – A Cure Worse than the Disease?

    • Analysis
    • January 25, 2022

    In April last year, several hundred people marched through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in honour of the SS Galicia Division, a collaborationist Ukrainian unit from World War Two. The event provoked me to write a piece that was published on …

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  • Why Alexei Navalny Has Failed to Spark Revolution in Russia

    Why Alexei Navalny Has Failed to Spark Revolution in Russia

    • Analysis
    • February 26, 2021

    For the past few weeks, Russia-related news has been dominated by the story of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, the latest twist in the saga being a decision this week by Amnesty International to deprive Navalny of his status as a …

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  • Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1

    Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1

    • Analysis
    • April 12, 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

    Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 2

    • Analysis
    • April 12, 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 federal …

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  • One Thing Trump is Right About

    One Thing Trump is Right About

    • Analysis
    • January 20, 2017

    Throughout the Cold War, the amount of military violence worldwide grew steadily, reaching a peak in 1992. A major reason was interference by the superpowers in local conflicts. The proxy wars that resulted when the United States and the Soviet …

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  • West Politicizes IMF to Support Ukraine

    West Politicizes IMF to Support Ukraine

    • Analysis
    • December 10, 2015

    By Paul Robinson

    Power is shifting worldwide. As previously less developed economies grow at a faster rate than those of the West, Western states are becoming relatively less powerful. It is in the West’s interest, therefore, to use the years …

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  • Russia’s Endgame in Donbass

    Russia’s Endgame in Donbass

    • Analysis
    • November 27, 2015

    By Paul Robinson

    Although in recent weeks the attention of many has shifted to events in Syria, the war in Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, has not entirely ended. Fighting continues to kill two or three people each week, and the …

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  • Debacle at Debaltsevo Calls For a New Approach to Ukraine

    • Analysis
    • February 18, 2015

    Before coming up with solutions it is first advisable to determine the nature of the problem. Right now the United States is considering sending arms to Ukraine, while here in Canada the Defence Minister, Jason Kenney, has been mulling the …

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  • Is Putin the World’s Most Popular Politician?

    • Analysis
    • August 17, 2014

    Reviled in the West as a dictator, Russian president Vladimir Putin is enjoying a surge of support at home. According to the latest results published by polling organization Levada (which is generally considered hostile to the Russian government), Putin has …

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  • Moral Confusion in Gaza and Ukraine

    • Analysis
    • August 1, 2014

    In my last post for the CIPS Blog, I drew readers’ attention to Robert Entman’s 1991 article comparing media coverage of the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983 and Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988. It is …

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  • Media Bias Frames Western Reporting on Ukraine

    • Analysis
    • June 5, 2014

    In a 1991 article published in the Journal of Communications, Robert Entman of the George Washington University examined how the American media framed international news.  He compared coverage of two similar events: the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight …

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  • Political Legitimacy Is What Matters in Ukraine’s Popular Referendums

    • Analysis
    • May 15, 2014

    A decade ago, The Spectator magazine commissioned me to write an article arguing that the British government ought to hold a referendum on the proposed new constitution for the European Union. I went further, and proposed that if the government …

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  • The Putin Book Club

    • Analysis
    • April 3, 2014

    “We must love all nations as we love our own,” writes Russian philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov in his 1897 book The Justification of the Good. The “greatness and value” of nationality, he claims, lies “not in itself taken in …

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  • Reaping the Whirlwind in Ukraine

    • Analysis
    • March 4, 2014

    The Russian media had a good laugh on March 2 at the expense of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who denounced Russia by saying, “[y]ou just don’t invade another country on a phony pretext in order to assert your …

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  • Four Myths About Russia

    • Analysis
    • February 3, 2014

    The forthcoming Olympic Games in Sochi have served as a hook for Western commentators to indulge in a prolonged round of Russia-bashing. A collection of negative preconceptions about Russia continues to dominate discussions of that country. Four of them are …

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  • In Face of Ukrainian Unrest, Doing Nothing is the Best Approach

    • Analysis
    • January 24, 2014

    One of the strongest barriers to our understanding of world events is the tendency to view what happens in other countries as a sort of morality play in which good fights evil. This way of looking at the world encourages …

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  • Russia is a Beacon of Sanity About Syria

    • Analysis
    • September 10, 2013

    Published in the Ottawa Citizen, September 9, 2013

    Russia-bashing and Putin-bashing, always fairly popular, have been much in fashion of late. Having lived for a while in Russia and before that the Soviet Union, as well as having devoted …

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  • There is No ‘Sacred Duty’ to Canada’s Veterans

    • Analysis
    • August 6, 2013

    Published in the Ottawa Citizen, Aug. 5, 2013

    Seriously wounded soldiers should enjoy no special status or privilege with regard to medical care,” writes Michael Gross of Haifa University, who is probably the world’s leading authority on military medical …

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  • How Not to Spend $75 Billion

    • Analysis
    • June 6, 2013

    Humanitarian motives are given as the justification for a whole series of foreign policy endeavours nowadays, from the most peaceful forms of foreign aid through to full-scale military invasion and occupation of foreign countries. How is that working out?  Two …

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  • Where is Canada’s Ron Paul?

    • Analysis
    • March 8, 2013

    Ten years ago this month, almost the entire political establishment of the United States united in supporting the invasion of Iraq. On the political right, one lone voice stood out against it: the then Texas congressman Ron Paul. This weekend, …

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  • ‘Canada First’ Military Spending a Surrender to Bad Policy

    • Analysis
    • February 14, 2013

    Published in the Globe and Mail, February 14, 2013

    We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, and which will not, through a

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  • Military Keynesianism: Wrong Then, Wrong Now

    • Analysis
    • December 17, 2012

    In November 1906, the Russian Council of State Defence met to discuss its new naval shipbuilding plan, the centrepiece of which was a proposal to build two new battleships for the Baltic Fleet. Presenting the plan, the Naval Minister, Admiral …

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  • Better Intelligence, Worse Policy

    • Analysis
    • November 20, 2012

    Does secret intelligence make public policy worse? At a panel at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies this weekend, I learned something from one of my co-panelists which made me think that perhaps …

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  • Turning Scientists into Sybils

    • Analysis
    • October 26, 2012

    The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2012

    Danger is ubiquitous but accurate and timely warnings of it are relatively rare; proper risk assessment is one of the great policy challenges of our time. A …

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  • Canada’s Military: A Solution in Search of a Problem

    • Analysis
    • May 29, 2012

    If we found a cure for cancer, would we then ask our scientists to invent a new disease so that oncologists had something to do? Something rather similar is being proposed for the Canadian Forces. A consensus has formed that …

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  • Bringing Russian ‘Liberal-Conservatism’ to the Fore

    • Analysis
    • March 29, 2012

    Russia is back in the news again this week, due to the overheard conversation between Presidents Medvedev and Obama about missile defence, and Mitt Romney’s subsequent denunciation of Russia as America’s “number one enemy”. Former presidential candidate Senator John McCain, …

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  • Reassessing the ‘Hearts and Minds’ Model of Counter-Insurgency

    • Analysis
    • March 12, 2012

    A couple of news items today bring forth contrasting visions of counter-insurgency success and failure. The first recounts the apparently quite successful reconstruction of Grozny; the second, the massacre of 16 Afghans by an American soldier. The contrast makes …

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  • Why the People Wanted Putin

    • Analysis
    • March 5, 2012

    The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 4, 2012.

    ‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most …

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  • Stolypin and Russia’s Veto of the Syria Resolution

    • Analysis
    • February 9, 2012

    The Russian veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria has had leaders and pundits in the West lining up to denounce the Russians, accusing them of revealing their autocratic tendencies and putting their own narrow trading interests (for …

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  • Observations on Russian Politics from a Moscow Bookstore

    • Analysis
    • January 31, 2012

    While waiting for the Moscow archives to deliver up their secrets last week, I popped into the Russian capital’s largest bookstore, Biblio Globus, to check out the history section—and while there, I took a very quick look at the politics …

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  • Nothing Much Will Change: the New U.S. Military Strategy

    • Analysis
    • January 10, 2012

    The recently-published new U.S. military strategy, entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, attracted a great deal of attention last week, with some critics denouncing what they claimed were excessive cuts in defence spending, and others …

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  • Protection Racket

    • Analysis
    • November 1, 2011

    The Responsibility to Protect may indeed protect some civilians, but unfortunately it also facilitates atrocities against others. Writing last week about the end of NATO’s mission in Libya, Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock proclaimed it as ‘A victory for the …

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  • What Defence Policy is Really About

    • Analysis
    • October 21, 2011

    Forum: DND and Academic Policy Advice.
    In this forum, CIPS blog contributors respond to a report written by Douglas Bland and Richard Shimooka of Queen’s University, who argue that the Department of National Defense pays little attention to the views …

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  • Why Israel Made the Deal

    • Analysis
    • October 20, 2011

    The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 20, 2011.

    In 1991, the Italian parliament passed a law prohibiting anybody not only from paying ransom but also from even negotiating with kidnappers. Colombia later followed suit. The …

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