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Vladimir Putin: Saviour of NATO
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- March 2, 2022
To my knowledge, NATO does not have a “Person of the Year” award, but it should, and the inaugural award should go to none other than Vladimir V. Putin. No one has done more for the Atlantic Alliance in many decades. In a few days, NATO has experienced an intense revival. Allies have re-committed themselves to Article
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A New Approach is Needed to Blunt the Appeal of Far-Right Movements
- Analysis
- February 18, 2022
The trucker convoy that rolled onto the streets of Ottawa late last month has become an unlikely cause célèbre for far-right movements and anti-vaxxers around the world. The scenario that has unfolded is not how Canada sees itself, and it has led to widespread concerns about foreign influences on the protests. These influences are far
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Obfuscation and Ventriloquy: Does Canada Speak for the World’s Poor?
- Analysis
- 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
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- 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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