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Memorandum for the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Welcome to GAC! (Structural Challenges Ahead)
- Analysis
- January 17, 2021
This memorandum addresses key structural challenges within Global Affairs Canada (GAC). You will have spoken to some of your predecessors about these issues. None of them in the past five years tackled GAC’s problems seriously. All of them, as a result, found their work hobbled by GAC’s inability to perform to higher expectations. In a phrase, Global Affairs
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Don’t Kid Yourself, America. What Happened at the Capitol was an Attempted Coup
In the face of threats to the nation, clear-eyed recognition of the facts is imperative. Indeed, if there is one big lesson from the last four years, surely it must be that truth matters. And the truth is that what happened before, at, and in the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was most certainly an
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Trump-Inspired Mob at U.S. Capitol Follows a Familiar Path of Election Violence
- Analysis
- January 11, 2021
The siege of the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters follows identifiable paths and patterns of election violence seen around the world. Election violence is rarely spontaneous. It is intentionally organized in order to influence the process and outcome of elections. It is not a coup, but it is a close cousin. Coups are about
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Track Two Diplomacy at Sixty
- Analysis
- January 7, 2021
In the early 1960s, a scholar named John Burton sought to challenge realist theory related to the resolution of conflicts. Burton, who had formerly been a high-ranking Australian diplomat, sought other ways to address deep-seated conflicts than through the application of power to either force a resolution or have one side ‘win’ and thereby end the
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