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R2P after Libya: A Cause Only the Morally Naïve Can Support?
- Analysis
- November 11, 2011
Contrarianism is always useful for making a splashy headline—and it was perhaps that impulse that led journalist and author David Rieff to publish a New York Times op-ed this week with the ominous title “R2P, R.I.P.”. “At first glance,” he writes “the intervention in Libya looks like a textbook case of how the new U.N.
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The Scale of Sacrifice: Canadian Military Deaths in Five Wars (chart)
- Report
- November 11, 2011
Lest we forget…
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The Rhetoric and Reality of Attacking Tehran
- Analysis
- November 11, 2011
Published on November 11, 2011 in the Globe and Mail. The latest United Nations report on Iran’s nuclear program has further raised tensions. While the report was notable for its candour, it carefully avoided making definitive statements on two critical issues: whether Iran has actually decided to build a bomb, or is merely content with
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The UN Security Council and Abdelrazik
- Analysis
- November 8, 2011
Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik is on the U.S. Security Council’s Al Qaida sanctions committee list. His assets are frozen and he is subject to an international travel ban. His case generated substantial notoriety when the Canadian government resisted his repatriation from Sudan on the basis, among other things, of his listing. It has generated even more
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