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 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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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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The news is filled with stories of migrants, many of whom are asylum seekers, struggling to gain access to safe states and of the poor treatment with which they are met when they finally do. In the United States, many governors near the border with Mexico have taken to rounding up migrants and forcibly sending them north. In the Mediterranean
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