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CIPS Launches Security Studies Network with Inaugural Lecture
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- January 27, 2012
CIPS is delighted to announce the launch of the Security Studies Network (SSN), the creation of which reflects the great strength of the University of Ottawa as a centre for the study of national and international security. The SSN – jointly coordinated by Michael Williams, Mark Salter and myself – will provide a “common home”
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Armies without Borders? Legal Questions on Canada-U.S. Military Cooperation
- Analysis
- January 25, 2012
The Ottawa Citizen reported today that Canada and the United States are in the final stages of negotiating a “new Canada-U.S. military agreement that will set down each country’s roles and responsibilities should North America be attacked”. The details are scant, but it would appear that part of the agreement will permit the military of one
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The End of the European Dream?
- Analysis
- January 25, 2012
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, the Brussels-based journalist Gareth Harding argues that “the European Union was built on the myth that we are one people with one common destiny”. In his view, “[w]e are now discovering that regional and national differences are not dissolving and that Europeans think and act very differently from
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Event Report: The Arab Spring, One Year Later
- Analysis
- January 24, 2012
On January 18, a CIPS discussion panel brought together Omar Ashour (Exeter University and Brookings Doha Centre), Barak Barfi (New America Foundation) and Peter Jones (University of Ottawa) to take stock of events in countries affected by the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011. Having been asked by moderator Roland Paris to prepare remarks on Egypt, Libya
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