• Mapping Out a North Korean Peace Process

    Mapping Out a North Korean Peace Process

    By John Gruetzner There are ultimately four critical components to a peace process: The first component is to submit and then finalize a draft of a document acceptable to the original signatories that converts the armistice agreement signed on 27 July 1953 to a full and final peace agreement. An ideal target date for a

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  • Canada Doubling Down on Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

    Canada Doubling Down on Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

    By John Gruetzner Canada has announced that it is co-hosting a 16-nation summit with the United States early next year to explore options to engage North Korea. Prime Minister Trudeau is also likely to meet this month with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss North Korea. These developments and the recent statement by

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  • Once More: What is Canada?

    Once More: What is Canada?

    In November 1964, the venerable American magazine The Atlantic published a special supplement on Canadian politics and society. It featured excellent, almost exclusively Canadian-authored articles: by John W. Holmes, the wordy Canadian diplomat, on “The Diplomacy of a Middle Power”; by sociologist Brian Stock, on Canada’s emigration — not immigration — problem; by Gérard Pelletier, editor-in-chief

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  • Gender, Data, and High-Risk Environments

    Gender, Data, and High-Risk Environments

    Collecting reliable data on state and political processes in insecure environments is a necessary first step to understanding and ultimately reducing violence. Gender shapes the data we collect, the ways it is collected, and ultimately the findings we produce and the solutions we pursue. There are multiple challenges to collecting data on political and electoral

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