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Next Year in Jerusalem (And Elsewhere in the Middle East)
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- January 1, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, December 28, 2012 A year ago, after noting that making predictions about the Middle East is a foolish endeavour, I made a series of predictions about what might happen there in 2012. To my amazement, most of them held up reasonably well. For those interested in grading them, my
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Canadian Foreign Policy Going Astray? Fall Highlights from the CIPS Blog
- Analysis
- December 20, 2012
Many sustained themes in the CIPS Blog this term concerned the Harper government’s foreign policy in the Mid-East, at the UN and in its larger vision of Canada’s place among nations. The semester started off with a critique by CIPS Visiting Associate John Mundy of the Harper government’s decision to suspend diplomatic relations with Iran.
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Military Keynesianism: Wrong Then, Wrong Now
- Analysis
- December 17, 2012
In November 1906, the Russian Council of State Defence met to discuss its new naval shipbuilding plan, the centrepiece of which was a proposal to build two new battleships for the Baltic Fleet. Presenting the plan, the Naval Minister, Admiral Birilev, admitted that there was no overarching defence policy which justified the shipbuilding program, but
READ MOREA Footnote on Canada-Iran Relations
- Analysis
- December 17, 2012
The Harper government took a decision in late August 2012, to bring Canadian diplomats out of Tehran and expel Iranian diplomats in Ottawa. It was described by some observers as a sudden decision, but it was obviously a measure which required time to implement. It may have come as a surprise to the Iranian embassy
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