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CIPS Best Blog Award 2021: Public Voting Now Open
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- October 13, 2021
Last year we launched our first ‘Best Blog Award’ competition. While the principal motivations behind the competition were to (a) offer up an engaging experience for you, dear reader and (b) draw some more attention the expertise and hard work of our authors, we also found that by rereading some of the older blogs we
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Retrotopian Desires and Gender in Right-Wing Populism
- Analysis
- October 10, 2021
Former US President Donald Trump in 2016 justified his plan to build a wall at the United States’ Southern Border to keep out Mexicans (many of whom implied he were rapists). This motif forms part of Trump’s strategy to “Make America Great Again,” in which the myth of a better, more desirable past – ostensibly before
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We Must Avoid An Isolated, Impoverished, Unstable Afghanistan
- Analysis
- October 6, 2021
After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, I consistently argued for a comprehensive, UN-facilitated peace process, encompassing all the internal Afghan parties to the conflict, including the Taliban and the regional and other actors implicated in the conflict, as the only way to address all outstanding issues, including in particular Pakistan’s support for
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What’s Next for Germany After Merkel
- Analysis
- October 4, 2021
Just days after Canadians took to the polls, Germans, too, elected a new parliament. Having lead Germany for sixteen years, Angela Merkel was not on the ballot again: the end of an era in German politics and the arrival of something new. The first signs of spring also brought the first indications that this campaign season
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