• Troops to Turkey?  The ‘Chanak Affair’ of 1922 and Its Relevance Today

    Troops to Turkey? The ‘Chanak Affair’ of 1922 and Its Relevance Today

    Should Canada send its armed forces to war in Turkey? The increasingly violent civil war in Syria means this could become a real question, for two reasons. First, the fighting is leading to confrontations between Turkish and Syrian troops along their shared border. Turkey is a NATO ally, and Canada is pledged to assist Turkey

    READ MORE
  • An Intervention Ahead in Mali?

    An Intervention Ahead in Mali?

    These days, when Western politicians or analysts discuss the possibility and likely consequences of an international intervention, they tend to refer to Syria. This is understandable, given the gravity and complexity of the crisis unfolding there.  But the focus on Syria has led us to overlook the growing international support for intervention in another country:

    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)