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A Peace Prize for the EU
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- October 15, 2012
The award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is curious. The stated reasons are fair enough on the face of it: the EU has helped to create a stable and peaceful Europe, to extend democracy and human rights across the continent, and to make war between former bitter adversaries (notably France
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The Central Conundrum of Baird’s UN Speech
- Analysis
- October 8, 2012
It’s too easy to dismiss John Baird’s October 1 speech to the UN General Assembly as simply another exercise in appealing to the party’s base. True, it did precisely that, capturing headlines back home as a “scathing rebuke” to the organization for its failure to address the Syrian situation seriously. But the problem is that
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Une diplomatie verbeuse
- Analysis
- October 7, 2012
par Justin Massie Published in La Presse, October 5, 2012 Lors de son dernier discours aux Nations unies, le ministre John Baird a exposé les fondements de la politique internationale de son gouvernement. Elle repose sur deux piliers: une diplomatie fondée sur des principes moraux et sur un activisme volontaire. Or, si en matière de
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Should Canada Promote Religious Freedom?
- Analysis
- October 2, 2012
Guest contributor: ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. In the United States, religious freedom is described as the ‘first freedom’: a fundamental human right and a sine qua non of democratic politics. Americans, we are told, invented and perfected religious freedom. It’s ready for export, and exporting it we are. The
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