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War Against Iran: From International Law to Epstein’s Law
The new episode in the war against Iran is unlike the previous ones, which were either conducted directly or mainly through proxies. We are witnessing a large-scale aggression that is a turning point not only in the history of the Middle East but also in the history of the world. With this war, the world
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Trump’s Iran Strikes and Carney’s New-World-Order Tightrope
Early Saturday morning, the United States and Israel initiated a second round of aerial attacks against Iran following the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites of last June. The justifications for this latest illegal military action by the Trump administration — which has killed Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — are as unconvincing as were those
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Middle Power Pragmatism Needed
By Benjamin Zyla, Madison Fillmore and Katelyn Cassin After Mark Carney’s special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the idea of a “middle power” has gained renewed attention in Canada. It was also mentioned several times at the Munich Security Conference in February. In his speech in Switzerland, Carney warned that the rules-based
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Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”?
Half a century after Canada’s “Third Option” sought – unsuccessfully – to reduce economic dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling on middle powers to chart a new “third path” in a fractured global order. Revisiting the lessons of the 1970s, Paul Meyer asks whether today’s vision of collective middle-power action
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