• On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria

    On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria

    Ian Hurd is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University The debate sparked by Syria’s chemical weapons attack includes at least three separate controversies: 1) which (if any) international legal instruments govern Syria’s use of chemical weapons; 2) whether outside military action against the Syrian regime violates international law; and 3) whether US

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  • Indecent Proposals: Why the Fraser Institute is Wrong on Immigration

    Indecent Proposals: Why the Fraser Institute is Wrong on Immigration

    Published September 9, 2013 on the Broadbent Blog My best guess is that the Fraser Institute expects no one to read the report behind their newest sensationalist press release, in which they claim that the cost of immigrants to Canada is staggeringly high. Anyone who looked at the report more closely would find false claims,

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  • Ready for Another Great Season at CIPS

    Ready for Another Great Season at CIPS

    We’ve been working hard to prepare an excellent series of fall events at CIPS. Here are a few highlights: Next week, CIPS will present talks by the celebrated Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid, and by one of the world’s leading experts on democracy promotion, Thomas Carothers. Later this month, John Mundy, Canada’s most recent

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  • Looking Back at Kosovo Can Move the Syria Conflict Forward

    Looking Back at Kosovo Can Move the Syria Conflict Forward

    By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy Published in the Globe and Mail, August 26, 2013 President Obama seems finally ready to engage in Syria with more than hollow rhetoric. Sadly, this comes after more than 100,000 deaths, two million refugees and massive internal destruction. It comes too after sustained inaction has allowed fanatic Islamists to

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