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Assessing Iran: The Arab Spring, the Nuclear Issue, and Canada’s Response
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- 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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Bad News from Afghanistan
- Analysis
- February 27, 2012
These days, statements issued by NATO and U.S. officials tend to portray an optimistic picture of the situation in Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgency remains on the back foot, that the transition to Afghan lead (the process by which security responsibility for Afghanistan is gradually transitioned to Afghan leadership) is continuing, and that in the
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Is an Israeli Attack Inevitable?
- Analysis
- February 26, 2012
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, February 26, 2012 To listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his “best friends” Stephen Harper and John Baird, one would think that the Israeli government has made up its mind about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Canada has made up its mind to support it. After all, if
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