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French Intelligence to Blame?
- Analysis
- January 14, 2015
All terrorist outrages are inevitably followed by soul-searching and blame-seeking. Last week’s terrible events in France have followed the inevitable trajectory. While the French Republic’s security manhunt for the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket killings involved an impressive and vast mobilization of forces, and while French society’s response to the attacks was
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15 Proposals for Canadian Foreign Aid
- Analysis
- January 11, 2015
The French version of this essay was published on the Huffington Post Québec blog Un seul monde on January 8, 2015. When the Harper government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) in 2013, it promised “more efficient, effective and
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Engaging Iranian Dissidents, Or Catering to the Tory Base?
- Analysis
- January 11, 2015
The Canadian government is renewing its support for a project, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre, to provide Iranian dissidents with a secure means of communicating and circumventing Iranian censorship. The project will also be extended to provide similar services to dissidents in other countries. The idea of Western governments providing assistance to
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The Greatest Risk to UN Peace Operations
- Analysis
- December 17, 2014
The greatest risk to United Nations peace operations is not operational failure, but the growing divergence of opinion among countries that mandate, finance and supply personnel to these operations regarding the purposes and practices of peacekeeping itself. The UN currently runs 16 peacekeeping missions with roughly 103,000 uniformed personnel and 16,000 civilians – along with
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