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Spring Into Summer? The Tunisian Elections
- Analysis
- October 12, 2014
by Bruce Montador Tunisia will soon complete the transition begun when President Ben Ali fled in January 2011. Under a new constitution, it will elect a parliament (via regional lists) this month, and then a president. Although the constitution gives most power to parliament, most attention is focused on the easier-to-understand presidential election. Even a
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This Isn’t the Kind of War Bombs Can Win
- Analysis
- October 10, 2014
Published in iPolitics, October 7, 2014 For starters, let’s stop calling them Islamic State. As President Barack Obama has pointed out, the mass murderers in black cutting a bloody trail through Iraq and Syria are neither truly Islamic nor a state. Second, let’s recognize that the fight against ISIS is less about bombs and bullets
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An Imperfect Election and New Government Offer Only Glimmers of Hope for Afghanistan
- Analysis
- October 8, 2014
The formation of a National Unity Government (NUG) in Afghanistan, ending the long 2014 presidential election process, has been hailed by international leaders as a peaceful and democratic transfer of power. Objective analysts, however, question the merits of such a view. The ethnically divided second-round election in Afghanistan raised concerns about potential armed violence between
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Canada Got It About Right in Iraq
- Analysis
- October 7, 2014
Canada decided last week to contribute CF-18 fighter aircraft, surveillance and refuelling planes, and advisers to the U.S.-led coalition bombing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Was this the right decision? Ideally, foreign policy should first seek to define the national interest, and then to protect and pursue it. On this basis, Canada got
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