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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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The View from MARs: American Populism and the Liberal World Order
- Analysis
- July 15, 2018
Jean-François Drolet, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University, London Michael C. Williams, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa Each day seems to bring a new body-blow to the liberal international order. Longstanding alliances are strained. Migration policies become more draconian. Human rights are dismissed as a dispensable superstition. Economic principles and policies
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In Defence of Liberal Internationalism?
- Analysis
- July 15, 2018
Alexandra Gheciu, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Associate Director of CIPS At first glance, the recent — unprecedentedly acrimonious — G7 Summit had a silver lining: it seemed to demonstrate that Canada enjoyed the solid support of the EU in its defence of liberal internationalism. In response to
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