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Killing Suleimani: The Tricky Business of Predicting What Comes Next
- Analysis
- January 6, 2020
The killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani has triggered the writing of a plethora of op-eds and think-pieces. Many of these make bold predictions without, in fact, providing a great deal of factual basis to support them. In reality, it is impossible to forecast the course of events going forward; it is critical to understand
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Canada Must Learn Its Own Lessons from Afghanistan
- Analysis
- December 20, 2019
In 2003, I saw optimism pervading the country. I saw it on the faces of men, women and children. But that is no longer the case. What should Canada learn for future massive-scale aid programs? Recently, the Washington Post published a lessons-learned report on Afghanistan authored by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR. The
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What Do Canadians Think of China and the US?
- Analysis
- December 18, 2019
There’s support for contact with China despite worries and uncertainties and a lack of trust in the US, a University of British Columbia survey finds. Amidst the diplomatic crisis affecting Canada-China relations that has followed the arrests of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in December
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Tunisie: Élection de Kais Saïed. Quel projet pour quelle réalité politico-juridique?
- Analysis
- December 13, 2019
Constitutionaliste de formation, Kais Saïed a remporté haut la main les élections présidentielles tunisiennes en récoltant 72% de l’ensemble des votants (57%). L’exercice électoral était digne d’une grande démocratie comme en témoignent les observateurs nationaux et internationaux. Cependant, de nombreuses questions demeurent quant à la manière dont le nouveau président gouvernera. Les Tunisiens ont montré,
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