Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights0

• Analysis
• March 9, 2012

On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared …

The KONY2012 Campaign and Its Critics0

• Analysis
• March 8, 2012

Guest contributor: REX BRYNEN
Professor of Political Science, McGill University

In recent days, a social media-based campaign called KONY2012 has gone viral with worldwide calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). …

Exploring Global Governance Networks0

• Analysis
• March 7, 2012

How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding …

Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?0

• Analysis
• March 5, 2012

CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012.
By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation.

• The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out.
• The international community must invest in a successful

Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?0

• Analysis
• March 5, 2012

For all the expressions of friendship and support between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the two have different thresholds over what would lead them to attack Iran and different visions of how the issue of Iran’s potential …

Why the People Wanted Putin0

• Analysis
• March 5, 2012

The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 4, 2012.

‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most …

Assessing Iran: The Arab Spring, the Nuclear Issue, and Canada’s Response0

• Analysis
• March 2, 2012

CIPS Policy Brief No.15, March 2012.
By PETER JONES. 

• Iran’s internal situation is troubled and getting worse, but it is impossible
  to say how long the regime will last.
• The Arab Spring has left Iran a ‘net loser’ in terms

Bad News from Afghanistan0

• Analysis
• February 27, 2012

These days, statements issued by NATO and U.S. officials tend to portray an optimistic picture of the situation in Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgency remains on the back foot, that the transition to Afghan lead (the process by which security …

Senegal: Warnings From a Model Democracy on the Brink0

• Analysis
• February 24, 2012

Senegal, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies, hovers on the brink of electoral chaos and political violence.  At least six people have already been killed, and protests and demonstrations are continuing on a daily basis despite the violent crack-down of …