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Last Year’s CIPS Blog Highlights, Part 4: Soldiers and Spies
- Research
- September 29, 2014
In this final installment of the CIPS Blog Greatest Hits 2013-14, we turn to the topic of Soldiers and Spies. It spans a range of military and security controversies that arose both in Canada and globally. They include new powers and oversight capacities of national intelligence agencies; debates about the direction of military spending; questions
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Standing Up Versus Marching Forward: Efforts to End Early and Forced (Child) Marriage
- Analysis
- September 28, 2014
Together with like-minded partners, Canada will continue to unabashedly champion the rights of, and opportunities for, girls and women around the world. After all—if we don’t speak up for them, who will? – John Baird, July 2014 Canada’s claims to be a leader in stopping child, early and forced marriage emerged in October 2013 when
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Are Canadians Still Liberal Internationalists?
- Analysis
- September 25, 2014
I recently wrote in the Globe and Mail that we shouldn’t expect to see a warming in Canada’s relations with the United Nations, which have been chilly since the Harper government failed to win a seat for Canada on the Security Council in 2010. In that article, I mentioned that I’d done some research into the
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Canada’s Decade of Diplomatic Darkness
- Analysis
- September 24, 2014
Published in the Globe and Mail, Sept. 24, 2014 When Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, observers should not expect a warming in Canada’s attitude toward the world body. Since Mr. Harper failed to win Canada a Security Council seat in 2010, he and his ministers have derided the
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