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CIPS Best Blog Award 2026: Public Voting Now Open
- CIPS
- September 15, 2026
It’s time to vote for the winner of the CIPS Best Blog Award! The CIPS Best Blog Award is designed to recognize the best blog written by the CIPS community during the previous academic year. This is the seventh year that we will be giving out the award. Please cast your vote here The 2026
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Modern Warfare Is Changing – and So Is the Concept of Militarism
By Srdjan Vucetic & Bryan Mabee Global military spending has reached record highs, but the more consequential story is how militarism has spread beyond the battlefield into technology, finance, and everyday political life. Military spending around the world is climbing faster than it has since the Cold War. According to SIPRI, a Stockholm-based think tank, in
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Canada Didn’t Chicken Out. We Did the Right Thing
In the end, Canada and the United States didn’t get a trade deal. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. Yes, a deal would have prevented further economic woes imposed on Canada in the short run. But what matters is that the Carney government didn’t give in to the Trump administration’s economic coercion. Concessions were made during the negotiations but not
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The Promise of Peace and Justice in Colombia: Ten Years Later
This November marks ten years since the Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was ratified by the Colombian Congress and became a binding legal document. The moment was far from the celebratory finish one might have imagined. The original Accord, negotiated and agreed upon by the parties
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