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Announcing the CIPS Annual Best Blog Award
- CIPS
- August 23, 2020
In the academic year 2019-20, CIPS published more than 50 original blogs, written by 31 of Canada’s leading experts in international affairs. The blogs posts covered a diversity of topics, including Canadian foreign policy, China and the West, war, peace, state-building, climate change and much, much more. But which was the best blog? Of course,
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Farewell “Mister Democracy”: Lee Teng-hui, 1923-2020
- Analysis
- August 7, 2020
The Taiwanese mourn their former president Lee Teng-hui, who died at the age of 97 this July 30. Lauded as “Mr. Democracy” by his fellow citizens, he stood among those extremely rare politicians. They, like Mikhail Gorbachev, were trained in an authoritarian system but set out to undermine it from within, driven by their deeply held democratic
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Where Do the Conservative Leadership Candidates Stand on International Issues?
The voting for the next head of the Conservative Party of Canada has begun. The winner, to be announced on August 21, will become the Leader of the Official Opposition. In the midst of the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the headline-capturing WE scandal, the leadership race has attracted very little attention – and
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What WE Need Now: Simplicity, Clarity, Accreditation, Scrutiny
- Analysis
- July 30, 2020
As the WE scandal goes from bad to worse, even WE founders Craig and Marc Kielburger have admitted the need for serious change. As WE’s corporate sponsors flee for the exit, the drumbeat of demands for change intensifies. WE has a big hill to climb. Having spent a few years in corporate governance and communications myself, I know how stressful such
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