• Tangible Evidence or Wishful Thinking?

    Tangible Evidence or Wishful Thinking?

    “Women’s participation in the peacebuilding process increases by 35% the probability that a peace agreement will last for at least 15 years.” Or does it? “If you want to make peace sustainable, include women in the peacebuilding process.” Over the last few months, I have seen this claim, or variations of it, everywhere. Canada’s Feminist International

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  • Harnessing Disruption: Working with China on Global Trade

    Harnessing Disruption: Working with China on Global Trade

    Patrick Leblond and Pascale Massot Ottawa provided welcome news with its recent announcement of a fall meeting with multiple nations to discuss the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It confirmed that the Trudeau government is not shifting its policy focus to trade promotion and bilateral free-trade agreements at the expense of promoting the

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  • Germany: Yet Another Migration Debate?

    Germany: Yet Another Migration Debate?

    Asli Ilgit, Cukurova University Audie Klotz, Syracuse University Once again, pundits predict the downfall of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Why? Her migration policies appear to fuel the rise of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Many observers offered similar proclamations at the peak of the Syrian crisis

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  • The Prospects for Chinese Leadership in an Age of Upheaval

    The Prospects for Chinese Leadership in an Age of Upheaval

    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 US President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the so-called liberal order through challenges to NATO, NAFTA, the WTO,

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