• What To Do About the Canadians Imprisoned in Syria?

    What To Do About the Canadians Imprisoned in Syria?

    It’s time to go back to basics when discussing the issue of the Canadians currently imprisoned in Syria. This issue can be approached in several different ways. But it can’t be ignored. Canadians may not like where this case is headed, but the end game is predictable.  The story of these Canadians is a sorry,

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  • AUKUS, Two Years Later

    AUKUS, Two Years Later

    Last fall, CIPS held a conference on AUKUS, the defence agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The conference proceedings have now been published as a themed issue of International Journal, Canada’s pre-eminent outlet for international affairs and global policy analysis. Designed to deter Chinese power in the Indo-Pacific, AUKUS both reflects and reinforces

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  • Space Security: Unresolved Problems, Emerging Challenges

    Space Security: Unresolved Problems, Emerging Challenges

    Space is crowded. There is a traffic jam in low earth orbit (LEO, 200 to 2000 km above the earth). There are a very large number of both civilian and military satellites in LEO, both operational and defunct – not to mention the innumerable pieces of random space debris including spent rocket parts, pieces of

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  • Ukraine War Scores Indirect Hits on Central Asia

    Ukraine War Scores Indirect Hits on Central Asia

    Pointing subtly to the four men working on laptops on the other side of the café, our guide said softly, “Those are the Russians.” In cafés, restaurants and hotel lobbies throughout Central Asia, we saw similar scenes: young to middle-aged Russian men working on spreadsheets and databases, earbuds in place, sometimes speaking quietly into microphones.

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