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CIPS Special: Novels We Recommend
For reading week this year we asked CIPS‘ distinguished members to recommend a novel to their students (and to all students of good writing). Rita Abrahamsen: Director of CIPS and Professor of Public and International Affairs For over twenty years, all my course syllabi of African and postcolonial politics have included a list of relevant
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Lest We Forget: How the 1930 Musha Incident Reveals the Hidden Nature of the Canada-Taiwan Relationship
- Analysis
- October 26, 2020
October 27 marks the 90th anniversary of the “Musha Incident” – a Taiwanese historical trauma unknown to most Canadians. Yet, Musha says much to Canada-Taiwan relations. A defining characteristic of Taiwan is that, despite Chinese settlement since the 17th century, over half the island remained under exclusive jurisdiction of Austronesian-speaking indigenous peoples until the early 20th century. Only
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The UN at 75: Between Despair and Hope
- Analysis
- October 24, 2020
As the world celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, it is time to address difficult questions about the future of the organization that emerged from the ashes of the Second World War. Can the UN build on its achievements, learn from its mistakes and reinvent itself for the 21st Century? In
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To Understand China’s Aggressive Foreign Policy, Look at Its Domestic Politics
- Analysis
- October 21, 2020
In the past six months, Chinese foreign policy appears to have taken a dramatic and aggressive turn. China has lashed out at Australia for questioning its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, bolstered its claims in the South China Sea, stepped up patrols around the Japanese-controlled Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, clashed with India in the Himalayas, and sent warplanes across the median line in the Taiwan Strait. It
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