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Un énoncé conservateur de politique étrangère
- Analysis
- November 28, 2011
par Justin Massie
Suite aux élections de mai, le ministre des Affaires étrangères, John Baird, s’est vu confier la tâche de réviser la politique actuelle et d’élaborer un nouveau document avec l’espoir de permettre à Ottawa de mieux anticiper l’environnement …
READ MOREKeystone XL and its Impact on Canada-U.S. Relations: A Red Herring?
- Analysis
- November 25, 2011
A delay in U.S. approval for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline (in order to avoid Nebraska’s environmentally-sensitive Sandhills and underlying agricultural aquifer) has led to speculation that Canada should shift its balance of trade from the U.S. to Asia. Certain segments …
READ MOREAlmost One Year On: Lessons from the Arab Spring
- Analysis
- November 25, 2011
Guest contributor: STEFAN WOLFF
Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, UKWhen Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, about 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, set himself …
READ MORECanada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Let’s Not Get Overexcited Here!
- Analysis
- November 24, 2011
At the APEC leaders’ summit that took place in Honolulu two weeks ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Asia would become the federal government’s new trade priority. As a result, he indicated, Canada would formally ask to join the …
READ MOREA Pivotal Moment? U.S. Policy Towards Asia
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org.
Is the United States “pivoting” its foreign policy towards the Asia-Pacific region, as prominent Obama administration officials, news reports, and commentators have claimed?
Daniel Drezner, a …
READ MOREGlobal Issues, Colonial Mindsets: The Munk Debates
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
Imagine that a foundation in a small European country, perhaps Denmark, sponsors a high profile series of debates with the purpose of providing a “forum for leading thinkers to debate the major issues facing Denmark and the world.” Most people, …
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The World Energy Outlook and North Pole Crocodiles
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
So the International Energy Agency (IEA) produced its annual World Energy Outlook this year. The central message seems to be: PANIC! IT MAY BE TOO LATE.
When a sober organisation full of technocrats and policy wonks screams panic, you know …
READ MOREScience Diplomacy: What’s It All About?
- Analysis
- November 18, 2011
CIPS Policy Brief No. 13 (November 2011).
By Daryl Copeland.- Science diplomacy can play a critical role in addressing the complex transnational issues which feed underdevelopment and insecurity.
- Foreign ministries, multilateral organizations and science-based institutions are unprepared and ill-equipped to
The 800-Pound Panda in Obama’s Asia Speech
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org.
Sometimes, the most interesting part of a political speech isn’t what is said, but what’s not said. On Thursday, President Barack Obama delivered an address to Australia’s Parliament …
READ MOREUNDRIP: The Wrong Basis for Canada’s International Indigenous Agenda
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Scott’s Simon recent blogpost on Canada and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Persons got a central message right: the importance of Canada playing a strong role abroad in promoting indigenous rights and indigenous issues. And he’s right …
READ MOREHarper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Was the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the …
READ MOREHoning Canada’s Approach to Interventions
- Analysis
- November 16, 2011
By Roméo Dallaire and Philippe Lagassé
Published in Embassy Magazine, November 16, 2011.
Canada and its NATO allies performed admirably during their recent intervention in Libya. They acted to prevent a predatory regime from potentially committing a mass atrocity; …
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