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Obfuscation and Ventriloquy: Does Canada Speak for the World’s Poor?
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- February 9, 2022
The tweet from Cooperation Canada after the webinar said it all: ‘“We want to be a voice for the low-income countries”, explains @HarjitSajjan of Canada’s response to the pandemic #COVID19 around the world’. Funny thing, we thought the low-income countries could speak for themselves. In fact, they do. Often. It’s just that Canada is not particularly good
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Being Critical about Intelligence Studies: a New Research Agenda
- Analysis
- February 7, 2022
In a recent CIPS podcast, Srdjan Vucetic, David Murakami Wood and myself discussed criticality in Intelligence Studies and Surveillance Studies. The question was simple enough: what does ‘critique’ mean in the context of both fields of scholarship? To respond to this question requires understanding critique as a ‘method’, that is, as a way of doing research
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Bullying and the Ghosts of History
- Analysis
- January 25, 2022
History never repeats exactly; there are always different nuances and circumstances. Our understanding of the past, on which we apply any equivalence, is distorted by the perspectives of our time. Reliance on historical analogy is therefore risky. The crisis in Ukraine is a case in point. The analogy that this crisis proves that a new “Cold War” with
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The Disinformation Industry – A Cure Worse than the Disease?
- Analysis
- January 25, 2022
In April last year, several hundred people marched through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in honour of the SS Galicia Division, a collaborationist Ukrainian unit from World War Two. The event provoked me to write a piece that was published on RT.com, in which I remarked that by tolerating such marches, Ukraine was tarnishing its reputation.
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