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Russia: Foreign Policy of a Country In-Between
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- January 21, 2018
by Viatcheslav Morozov University of Tartu, Estonia How much do we know about the driving forces behind Russia’s foreign policy? Despite our repeated failures to predict the Kremlin’s actions, we actually do understand a lot. Probably the most important thing we recognize is Russia’s in-between position in Europe: it is neither fully in nor fully
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“Returned Extremist Travellers”: The Small Numbers Problem for Canada, Part 1
- Analysis
- January 18, 2018
On 21 December, the Public Safety department released the government’s “Terrorist Threat to Canada” report for 2017 to no fanfare and little media attention. If you want something to get no attention, send it out just before the Christmas holidays. The release came too late to help the government make its case that they had
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“Returned Extremist Travellers”: The Small Numbers Problem for Canada, Part 2
- Analysis
- January 18, 2018
See Part 1 of this blog here. The key to a successful response to RETs is knowing who they are and when they will reach your shores. Impossible though this seems, real opportunities for identifying the IS fighter cadre exist: imagery, signal identification, agents (HUMINT), social media, and open source information. A lot of high
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International Theory at CIPS: Past and Coming Attractions
- Report
- 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 audience to demand more such theory-laden talks. At least 67 people in the National Capital Region
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