• L’Amérique du Nord : elle compte de plus en plus!

    L’Amérique du Nord : elle compte de plus en plus!

    Le Council of Foreign Relations vient de publier son tout dernier rapport sur l’Amérique du Nord invitant ses pays membres à se repositionner. Nuls autres que le célèbre général Petraeus, ancien directeur de la CIA, et Robert Zoellick, ancien directeur de la Banque mondiale, en sont les co-présidents, appuyés par un aéropage d’experts. Leur message

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  • Three Missing Pieces in the Canadian Security and Intelligence Debate

    Three Missing Pieces in the Canadian Security and Intelligence Debate

    The Harper government has been forced to introduce amendments to the CSIS Act, following another in a series of government set-backs in the courts on security and intelligence issues. This has triggered comments on the proposed legislation, most of which concern surveillance abroad, foreign intelligence and security and intelligence beyond Canada’s borders. It’s a ‘niche

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  • The ICC: Breach in the Dyke, or High Water Mark?

    The ICC: Breach in the Dyke, or High Water Mark?

    Published on openGlobalRights, November 3, 2014 The International Criminal Court (ICC) is back in the news. Pressure is growing on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accede to the Rome Statute; if he does so, the ICC might gain the authority to investigate alleged war crimes in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.  Just a few

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  • With U.S.-China Climate Deal, Canada’s Isolation Deepens

    With U.S.-China Climate Deal, Canada’s Isolation Deepens

    Tuesday’s U.S.-China climate deal has been hailed widely as an “historic deal” that dramatically changes the dynamics of international climate politics as countries search for a new global agreement by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Climate Convention in Paris in 2015. Clearly it is a welcome development in a number of

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