Subscribe to the CIPS Newsletter
- Home
- Blog
Blog
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
READ MORE
Forget the Public Diplomacy, Iran and the U.S. Have a Long Road Ahead
- Analysis
- September 26, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, September 26, 2013. The past weeks have seen a shift in Iran-U.S. relations. Instead of the usual bombast we are seeing measured, even respectful points from the two presidents. We hear that Iran’s Supreme Leader has, in his usual round-about and never entirely certain way, blessed the idea of
READ MORE
Terror 2.0: Kenya’s #Westgate and a New Face of Terrorism
- Analysis
- September 26, 2013
by Joshua Ramisch The harrowing images from Nairobi’s burning and blood-soaked Westgate Mall have come not just from journalists but from the cellphones nearly everyone in the building was carrying. Twitter has been alive with updates from all sides: from the Kenyan Defense Forces, from terrified people trapped inside the mall, and from accounts claiming
READ MORE
Event Report: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter
- Analysis
- September 19, 2013
On September 12, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid spoke at CIPS on Pakistan’s current challenges and its prospects for coming years. The present situation, he declared at the outset, is grim. Three separate insurgencies are causing mayhem; the economy is crumbling; and an acute energy crisis is having huge impacts on national growth and development.
READ MORE
The CIPS Blog is written only by subject-matter experts.
CIPS blogs are protected by the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)