Subscribe to the CIPS Newsletter
- Home
- Blog
Blog
Canada’s Foreign Policy “One-Sided,” Not the UN Resolution We Refused to Support
- Analysis
- December 22, 2017
Canada refused to support the UN General Assembly resolution this week that rebuked the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In doing so, the Trudeau government undermined its claim to be cutting a new foreign policy path, distinct from the Harper government. The decision also puts in jeopardy a key foreign
READ MORE
Trump’s Security Strategy is more about his Personal Grievances
- Analysis
- December 20, 2017
US President Donald Trump released his administration’s national security strategy, presented in a speech to a subdued military audience on the afternoon of December 18th. The strategy document was previewed by Trump’s national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, at a conference the previous week, and accompanied over the weekend by the usual leaks from anonymous
READ MORE
Scrooge in Paradise: Why Private Wealth is a Political Issue
- Analysis
- December 19, 2017
As global inequality grows to “extreme levels” — as revealed in the just-released World Inequality Report — it is hard not to wonder what it bodes for the health of liberal democracy — around the world and here in Canada. Even though our growing levels of inequality may not come close to those in the
READ MORE
The Central African Republic: Forgotten by the World?
- Analysis
- December 18, 2017
By Gino Vlavonou International news headlines move quickly from one disaster to another. A political crisis in one country is forgotten as turmoil unfolds in the next: Mugabe’s fall from power; a mass shooting in the US; sub-Saharan African slaves in Libya. The longstanding crisis unfolding in the Central African Republic (CAR), however, rarely even
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)