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Six Ways for Harper to Reclaim the National Security Agenda
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- October 11, 2013
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is “very concerned” about revelations of Canadian spy activity targeting Brazil. So he should be. The operation by the Communications Security Establishment Canada, our electronic spy agency, looks to have been ill-advised and a waste of finite Canadian resources, unless the world has grown very much safer than we
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Democracy Promotion and the Role of the ‘Democratic Emerging Powers’
- Analysis
- October 9, 2013
by Gerd Schönwälder A preview of the conference on ‘Promoting Democracy: What Role for the Emerging Powers?’ to take place at the University of Ottawa on October 15-16, 2013. Millions around the world continue to name democracy as their preferred form of government and profess adherence to democratic values. However, democracy promotion has acquired something
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Holy Fools of Diplomacy in the Harper Era
- Analysis
- October 8, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, October 7, 2013 In detective novels, the most swaggering posture is a hard-boiled one, wise to the ways of the world and expecting venality at every turn. The same holds true in diplomacy, commonly thought to be a sphere in which state interest is paramount and collective action persists just
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Does Anyone Remember Iraq?
- Analysis
- October 8, 2013
On October 5, a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital—the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq that day, killing at least 48 people. To many Iraqis, such incidents do not come as a surprise. With the
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