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Canada’s Africa Strategy: A Robust New Foreign Policy?
The timing was unusual. After being delayed by well over a year, the Trudeau government finally released its Africa strategy, a mere eight days before a new government was sworn in and probably only a few weeks before new federal elections are called. Many outside observers weren’t sure the document was ever going to see the
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What Was Said (And What Was Not Said)
- Analysis
- March 19, 2025
Double Truths: When Fiction Reveals What Academia Cannot
- Analysis
- March 17, 2025
After years working in the World Bank’s Result Measurement Unit, I found myself confronting an uncomfortable reality: development aid to impoverished countries primarily benefits aid facilitators, donors, and a select few wealthy clients—rarely empowering those it’s meant to help on the ground. Paraphrasing Voltaire, other countries have banks, but the World Bank as an institution
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Thinking Critically About Science Diplomacy: What Does It Mean To Give Scientists A ‘Seat At The Table’?
- Analysis
- March 11, 2025
A recent editorial in Nature endorses an expert report on science diplomacy prepared for the European Commission that recommends that “science move closer to the centre of EU policymaking”. The expert report goes on to argue that scientists must “become more visible and be at the core rather than at the fringe” of policy making. The editorial uses
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