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Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
For all the expressions of friendship and support between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the two have different thresholds over what would lead them to attack Iran and different visions of how the issue of Iran’s potential nuclear weapons capability can be resolved. Netanyahu believes that any potential Iranian nuclear weapons capability
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Why the People Wanted Putin
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 4, 2012. ‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most vivid is that restaurants were few and far between and when you did find one,
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Assessing Iran: The Arab Spring, the Nuclear Issue, and Canada’s Response
- Analysis
- March 2, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.15, March 2012. By PETER JONES. Iran’s internal situation is troubled and getting worse, but it is impossible to say how long the regime will last. The Arab Spring has left Iran a ‘net loser’ in terms of both alliances and influence in the Arab world. Since Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear
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Steve Coll’s Sobering Vision of Afghanistan’s Future: Event Report
- Analysis
- March 1, 2012
On February 27, Steve Coll (President of the New America Foundation and Pulitzer Prize-winning author) gave a strikingly clear and sobering analysis of problems afflicting the U.S. exit strategy from war in Afghanistan. His opening premise was a moral one: given the Afghan people’s suffering through mostly continuous wars since 1979, as well as the
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