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Harper, Baird and Multilateral Cooperation
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- October 5, 2013
Familiar stories came out of New York over the past two weeks as the global community assembled for the annual UN General Assembly debates. John Baird’s speech on September 30, while appalling in style and policy content, was free of the gratuitous anti-UN rhetoric of previous efforts. It followed a quick visit to the city
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When Prodigal Jihadis Come Home
- Analysis
- October 1, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 30, 2013 It’s getting to be a familiar theme that Canadians’ global origins and global mobility can intersect frighteningly with currents in Islamist terrorism. Two Canadians were killed in this month’s Al Shabab attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, and a Canadian teenager maimed in the attack is recovering
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Iran’s Diplomatic Opening is a Test of Intentions
- Analysis
- September 30, 2013
by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, September 30, 2013 For the first time in many years there are hopeful signs that Iran is prepared to negotiate a comprehensive deal on its nuclear program with the United States and the other members of the P5 +1 group (which includes the five permanent members
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Relief Not Regret Over Harper’s UN Absence
- Analysis
- September 29, 2013
John Baird’s address to the UN today, his third, is likely to cover familiar ground: long on rhetoric, short on constructive policy. Regarding the important developments last week on Syria and Iran, Baird will insist that both countries will be judged by what they do, not what they promise to do. As this in any
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