Subscribe to the CIPS Newsletter
- Home
- Blog
Blog
“A Parade Like the One in France”: A Reflection on Militarism Today
- Analysis
- 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 4 or Veterans Day on November 11. The place would be Pennsylvania Avenue, of course —
READ MORE
Before We Sell Aecon to China, Canada’s National Security Must Come First
- Analysis
- February 8, 2018
“The Chinese are coming” may sound like a melodramatic note from a bygone Cold War, but it has been updated for a new reality of Chinese global economic expansion. Developing and developed economies alike have felt its impact. Now, one Chinese enterprise has set its sights on Canada and confronted the Trudeau government with a
READ MORE
Another One Bites the Dust: What Future for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights?
- Analysis
- February 8, 2018
The announcement in December 2017 by Prince Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan that he would not seek a second term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights — leaving the post in the middle of 2018 — came as a great disappointment to many in the human rights community. But it should not have been a surprise.
READ MORE
Liberals’ Vague “Values” Talk Undermines Rights Promotion
- Analysis
- February 2, 2018
Canadian governments since the mid-1970s have claimed that promoting human rights around the world is a foreign policy priority. There are solid moral, legal, and practical grounds for doing so. Yet increasingly, the Liberal government, like its Tory predecessor, justifies the policy by drawing on vague appeals to Canadian “values” — as if these were
READ MORE
The CIPS Blog is written only by subject-matter experts.
CIPS blogs are protected by the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)