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New Powers Won’t Play by Old Rules on Human Rights
- Analysis
- June 26, 2013
Published in the e-zine openGlobalRights, June 25, 2013 The following piece is a contribution to the Global Rights forum on Open Democracy. Over the next year, this forum will provide a venue for discussion and debate on a number of human rights issues. The piece is a reply to earlier contributions by the Secretary-General of
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The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why Is Canada Lagging Behind?
- Analysis
- June 20, 2013
From the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute: A new report by Roland Paris, CDFAI Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, examines the burgeoning world of digital diplomacy and concludes that Canada is falling behind in the communications revolution. Paris states that “the practice of
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Canada’s Brave New World of Digital Diplomacy
- Analysis
- June 18, 2013
Is it diplomacy, propaganda or subversion? There’s a question of naming going on these days in Canadian diplomacy, amid our government’s high-profile feud with Iran. It starts from a seemingly minor venture that opens up into something quite major: the way in which digital mass communications is effecting a tectonic shift in how governments relate
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What’s Next After Iran’s Surprise Election Result?
- Analysis
- June 17, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, June 16, 2013 The Iranian electorate has surprised us. Most Iran experts (mea culpa – me too) had confidently expected that Hassan Rouhani had little chance of victory. But then he won. Not only that, he won on the first round. Elections still matter. So what happened? And what
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