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UK Rendition and Torture: Lessons for Canada
- Analysis
- July 18, 2018
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has produced two reports on collusion in rendition (the legal term for shipping someone from one jurisdiction to another) and torture operations in the US-led War on Terror. They remind us in blunt terms that these issues are still with us, almost two decades after the Bush Administration
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Liberal Internationalism: Save, Ditch, or Reform?
- Analysis
- July 15, 2018
Rita Abrahamsen, Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Director of CIPS When President Donald Trump reneged on his commitment to the G7 Communiqué after the Charlevoix Summit in June, it was but one of many recent blows to liberal internationalism and multilateralism. In Europe, the rise of far right movements
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Making the United Nations Fit for Purpose in an Illiberal Era
- Analysis
- July 15, 2018
Louise Riis Andersen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies The return of geopolitics and the rise of populism have reinforced crude and divisive distinctions between “us” and “them.” As a result, the notions of collective security and the common “we” of humanity — institutionalized in the United Nations Charter — are increasingly written off as
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How History Helps Us Uncover the Real Successes of Middle Power Internationalism
- Analysis
- July 15, 2018
Heidi Tworek, Assistant Professor in International History, University of British Columbia, and Visiting Fellow, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University Over 15 years ago, Barry Buzan and Richard Little lamented that international relations had long sustained “a dominant attitude, partly against history, partly just indifferent to it.” While some scholars do use history, it still
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