• Canada Steps Up Global Competition for ‘Brains’—At What Cost?

    Canada Steps Up Global Competition for ‘Brains’—At What Cost?

    The global competition for talent—the ‘battle for the brains’—is fierce, and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney knows that Canada can no longer assume that it is uniquely attractive as a destination for high-skilled migrants. Along with many other states, we must now entice these migrants to join us, rather than assume they desire to do so. 

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  • Abandoning Diplomacy with Iran: Why, and Why Now?

    Abandoning Diplomacy with Iran: Why, and Why Now?

    by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, September 10, 2012 No country suspends diplomatic relations with an adversary lightly. It signals that the possibility for future dialogue is over. While it is true that Canada has not been a major player in international negotiations with Iran, with this latest Canadian decision to suspend

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  • The New Interventionism: Promise and Reality

    The New Interventionism: Promise and Reality

    First published by 3 Quarks Daily The news is alarming: whole families killed in the mountain villages near Lebanon and massacres in Damascus; sectarian clashes between Christian, Alawite and Sunni communities risk a descent into full-scale civil war. The French are demanding intervention, and together with the British threatening to dispatch warships to the Syrian

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  • Theory and the City

    Theory and the City

    How many people do International Relations (IR) for a living in Canada’s Capital Region?  To come up with an estimate, we counted full-time faculty who work in this semi-autonomous field of study at four universities in Ottawa and the neighbouring city of Gatineau: Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, St. Paul University and Université du

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