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CIPS Best Blog Award 2022: Public Voting Now Open
- Analysis
- September 22, 2022
It’s that time of year again… time to launch CIPS’ Best Blog award! Just like last year, we hope this competition will provide you with an opportunity to revisit some of the best blogs from the past 12 months. It gives us great pleasure, then, to announce that public voting for the second-ever blog award
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The Future of the Canadian Foreign Service
- Analysis
- September 6, 2022
In the last several years, and in particular since Canada’s unsuccessful bid for a seat on the UN Security Council in June 2020, numerous critiques of Canadian diplomacy have been published, including some written by prominent retired ambassadors, former ministerial staffers, and other well-intentioned commentators (including on the CIPS blog). These think-pieces generally paint a picture of a foreign ministry weakened
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Economic Security and America’s CHIPS Act
- Analysis
- August 23, 2022
Chinese military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in August 2022 temporarily disrupted international shipping. Like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this is a reminder of the intrinsic dialectic between war and commerce in human sociality. In anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss thought that wars are the result of failed transactions. On the other hand, Pierre Clastres argued that war was
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Reform of Global Affairs Canada: Version 2023
- Analysis
- August 10, 2022
If the stars align in proper fashion, the year 2023 promises to be key for decisions about Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian foreign service. Two studies are now under way: in the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, launched in February, 2022; and in Global Affairs itself, the latter announced by the Minister and Deputy
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