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Meet NATO’s New Champion: President Donald Trump
- Analysis
- December 11, 2019
After spending years belittling and undermining the western world’s principal military alliance, during his recent trip to London to celebrate the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) 70th birthday, President Trump sounded a different tune. Instead of continuing his attack on the alliance, Trump turned his ire on French President Emmanuel Macron, for criticising NATO himself.
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Is the Iranian Empire Striking Back? Lessons from the Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Analysis
- December 6, 2019
Exporting the communist revolution was a defining mission of the Soviet Union. But in practice, this translated into redirecting massive amounts of resources away from the domestic sphere, where they were desperately needed, towards consolidating the USSR’s influence over other peoples and territories. Ultimately, this agenda hollowed out the middle of Moscow’s power. It left
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Causes and Results of Recent North Korea-US Negotiations
- Analysis
- December 3, 2019
In September 2017 US President, Donald Trump, and North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un were engaged in a furious interchange of insults and threats. However, less than a year later “Little rocket man” – as Trump called Kim in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly – and the “mentally deranged US dotard” – as Kim would retort to
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Priority One: Saving the Canadian Foreign Service
- Analysis
- November 28, 2019
The Canadian foreign service is in desperate condition. If the Trudeau government hopes to achieve its foreign policy objectives, its first priority should be a wholesale reform of Global Affairs Canada that focuses on the rejuvenation of the foreign service. The Prime Minister ispushing the re-set button on Cabinet priorities, with new instructions to the
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