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Intervening in Syria Would be Illegal. It Would Also be Right.
- Analysis
- May 2, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 1, 2013 If the United States becomes convinced that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has started using chemical weapons against its own citizens, the “red line” set down by President Barack Obama will have been crossed. If the U.S. initiates military action as a consequence, it will provoke the same
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Thinking Again About the Crisis of EU Climate Policy
- Analysis
- April 29, 2013
The demise of carbon markets has been predicted a number of times. The latest episode to provoke this claim was the failure of the European Parliament to strengthen the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in a recent vote on what is called ‘backloading’, or withholding a number of emission allowances under the system from
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Themed Journal Issue on “The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter”
- Analysis
- April 29, 2013
By Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) and Srdjan Vucetic In the Maclean’s annual list of “99 stupid things the government did with your money”, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears as exhibit 46: Jet lagged: After dissing reports from the auditor general and Parliamentary Budget Office that warned the price of F-35 fighter jets would
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What the Saccomani Appointment Means
- Analysis
- April 29, 2013
The appointment of Bruno Saccomani, head of the Prime Minister’s security detail, to be the next Canadian Ambassador to Jordan and Iraq struck even the most cynical observers of the Harper government as a curious move. The two countries are pivotal in a volatile region, at a critical time for Syria, Turkey, Israel and Iran
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