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This election, Canadians can’t afford to ignore parties’ defence policies
- Analysis
- October 18, 2019
By Thomas Juneau and Srdjan Vucetic
With the federal election days away, Canada faces five major defence challenges: the fragmentation of the rules-based international order, over-reliance on the United States, the challenges posed by emerging technologies, how Canada procures weapons …
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F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road
By Jonathan D. Caverley, Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic
While China’s Belt and Road Initiative has captured the headlines, the network of alliances based around Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II offers advanced technology and close ties to the United
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Backwards, March! Brexit, CANZUK, and the Legacy of Empire
- Analysis
- January 17, 2019
By Duncan Bell and Srdjan Vucetic
It was coined in the 1950s, but the term CANZUK — a union (or alliance or pact) of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — has been repurposed in the wake of …
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Understanding “Ethnic Conflict”
- Analysis
- October 7, 2018
By Marie-Eve Desrosiers and Srdjan Vucetic
“Ethnic conflict” elicits no shortage of strong scholarly opinion and debate. But what exactly is the causal relationship between ethnicity and violence? And what does “causal” mean in this context anyway? Since ethnic conflict …
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The Prospects for Chinese Leadership in an Age of Upheaval
- Analysis
- July 24, 2018
Srdjan Vucetic, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Bentley B. Allan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Ted Hopf, Provost Chair Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore…
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Arms Exports and Feminist Foreign Policy
- Analysis
- April 11, 2018
In recent years, we’ve seen a number of depressing political shifts in the Euro-Atlantic area — but the rise of feminist foreign policies is not among them.
The trend was set in 2014 when Margot Wallström was named foreign minister …
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“A parade like the one in France”: A Reflection on Militarism Today
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- February 8, 2018
According to The Washington Post, US President Donald Trump has asked the Department of Defense to plan for a military parade later this year. The date is yet to be set, but it is likely to be either July …
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International Theory at CIPS: Past and Coming Attractions
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- January 15, 2018
The origins of CIPS’s International Theory Network (ITN) go back to an inspiring talk in 2010 by McGill’s Vincent Pouliot. A treatment of the evolution of NATO–Russia relations from a Bourdieusian perspective, Pouliot’s seminar led some folks in the …
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A Pioneering War Crimes Tribunal Comes to an End
- Analysis
- December 14, 2017
At the end of December, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) closes its doors after 24 years in business.
The United Nations court, situated in The Hague, was established in 1993 with the goal of providing accountability …
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Once More: What is Canada?
- Analysis
- December 11, 2017
In November 1964, the venerable American magazine The Atlantic published a special supplement on Canadian politics and society. It featured excellent, almost exclusively Canadian-authored articles: by John W. Holmes, the wordy Canadian diplomat, on “The Diplomacy of a Middle Power”; …
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The General and the Genocide
- Analysis
- November 26, 2017
General Ratko Mladić has been sentenced to life in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court found the former Bosnian Serb military chief guilty of one count of genocide and ten crimes against humanity, plus …
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A New Defence Policy for a New World Disorder?
- Analysis
- June 12, 2017
Today’s world is sometimes described as “post-truth, post-West, post-order.” This week Canada received three maps for navigating it: first the House of Commons foreign policy speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, then the Defence Policy Review, and finally …
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What to Look for in Canada’s New White Paper on Defence
- Analysis
- April 24, 2017
Canada’s defence policy review statement is slated to be released in May 2017, a week or two before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Brussels on May 25 for a meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) heads of …
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What Joining the Arms Trade Treaty Means for Canada
- Analysis
- April 24, 2017
The government of Canada is about to accede to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the first and only legally binding treaty designed to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. On April 13, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the introduction …
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CANZUK: Marching Backward to Empire
- Analysis
- February 24, 2017
“As Prime Minister, I will actively pursue a Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand trade and security pact, including freedom to live, work, and invest in these countries.”
So says Conservative leadership candidate Erin O’Toole on his website — a bold …
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National Interest in the Age of Trump
- Analysis
- February 12, 2017
In his inauguration speech, US President Donald J. Trump made it clear that a central focus of his tenure will be America’s national interest. “From this moment on, it’s going to be America first,” he said, adding that the US …
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Why a small meeting of far-right delegates in Europe shouldn’t go unnoticed
- Analysis
- January 23, 2017
The day following President Donald Trump’s inauguration was marked by the Women’s March on Washington and hundreds of “sister marches” in cities around the world — a global display of disapproval for the new US leader and his retrograde understanding …
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What is Montenegro to NATO Now?
- Analysis
- January 13, 2017
Montenegro’s accession to full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) took a major step forward this week as the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Balkan country’s membership bid. President-elect Donald Trump has yet to tweet …
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EU or Commonwealth: Where Does Canada Fit in Britain’s Plans?
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- April 27, 2016
In 2009, George Monbiot wrote a much-trafficked op-ed in The Guardian on the Canadian tar sands political-industrial complex, blaming it for the “astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state.” The author blamed the government …
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Thinking About Strategic Posture Options: Dutch Lessons for Canada?
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- April 6, 2016
The Trudeau government’s maiden budget pledged important new commitments, but defence spending was not one of them. One could argue that this is only logical: money should not be spent before the defence review is completed and Canada’s priorities in …
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What the Karadžić Verdict Means
- Analysis
- March 30, 2016
Radovan Karadžić, the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces during the 1992–95 war, was convicted on March 24th of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal …
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Liberal Government Must Sign Treaty Regulating Arms Industry
- Analysis
- January 27, 2016
by Jennifer Erickson, Srdjan Vucetic, and Amanda Alcamo
In his campaign, Justin Trudeau promised to sign the Arms Trade Treaty if elected. Now is the time for the new prime minister to follow through on his election promise.
The treaty …
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Will the New Defence Review be “Open and Transparent”?
By Srdjan Vucetic
The Trudeau government is giving itself twelve months to come up with a new defence document—most likely a Strategy, but quite possibly a White Paper combined with a Statement. Apart from setting out Department of National Defence …
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Pause Before You Laugh at Governor Walker
Photo by Megan McCormickElection campaigns are comedy fodder. This week’s top supplier is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the man running for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States. When queried on Sunday by Chuck Todd of NBC News’ …
READ MOREHillary Clinton’s World
As part of the Canada 2020 conference, Hillary Clinton will be giving a lunch-time talk at the Ottawa Convention Center on October 6. The subject of her speech is yet to be announced, but I imagine due attention to “Canada-U.S. …
READ MOREWherefore the Air Force? A Review of Robert Farley’s “Grounded”
Robert Farley, Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
The future of the U.S. military may be in Canada’s past, contends Robert Farley. The book’s main argument is that …
READ MOREUnderstanding the Great War
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, March 31, 2014
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914 set off a chain of events that a few weeks later led to an all-out war involving virtually …
READ MOREOversell but Underperform? The Increasingly Troubled Legacy of the ICTY
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- July 17, 2013
Once again, transitional justice-watchers are enthralled with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). After dishing out one controversial acquittal after another for months, the tribunal is now embroiled in a bona fide scandal. It involves a major …
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Themed Journal Issue on “The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter”
By Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) and Srdjan Vucetic
In the Maclean’s annual list of “99 stupid things the government did with your money”, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears as exhibit 46:
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What’s New in the EU: the Euro Crisis and the 28th Member State
The European Union has never not been in crisis. Whether “this time is different”—and “this time” refers to ongoing iterations of the eurozone crisis—is a question that lends itself to all sorts of speculation along the lines of an …
READ MOREBang Bang Bangalore: India’s Military Spending Spree
“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is one of my favourite episodes of The Simpsons. First aired in 2006, it is an important contribution to North American and global popular culture’s celebration of post-liberalization India that began in the 1990s. In …
READ MORENuclear Power: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Extreme events have the ability to radically change political, moral, technical and other debates that shape what governments say and do. The effect of the 2011 Fukushima disaster on national energy strategies was so far-reaching that it led many to …
READ MOREObama’s Ohio Report
My Ohioans did it again. In every election since 1964 (and almost every time since 1904), the winner of this state ended up taking the presidency – hence the clichés “America’s bellwether” and “as Ohio goes, so goes America”. Having …
READ MORERomney’s Minority Report
Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the …
READ MORETheory and the City
- Analysis
- September 3, 2012
How many people do International Relations (IR) for a living in Canada’s Capital Region? To come up with an estimate, we counted full-time faculty who work in this semi-autonomous field of study at four universities in Ottawa and the neighbouring …
READ MOREThe Future of Flying: A View from Farnborough
All eyes are turning to the London Olympics—but for people in the aerospace industry, Britain’s biggest event this summer is the Farnborough International Airshow. At this event (the 48th iteration of the biannual show run by Britain’s defense and aerospace …
READ MORECIPS Launches Graduate Student Seminar Series in International Theory
Like its sister networks sponsored by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), the International Theory Network (ITN) aims to create opportunities for students share to their ideas and develop a research community. To that end, a group of students …
READ MORESpecial Journal Issue on “The F-35: Right for Canada?”
In 2001, the United States government selected Lockheed Martin (over Boeing) to lead in the development of the F-35, a fifth-generation fighter aircraft for use by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Along with several other U.S. allies, Canada …
READ MOREWhat Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean
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- December 21, 2011
By Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic
The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a …
READ MORENo Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia
This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that had left …
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