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NATO’s Success in Libya 0
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- October 31, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org.

NATO’s operation in Libya formally ends at midnight today. All told, its aircraft conducted almost 10,000 strike missions over 7 months. When the mission began, many commentators warned …
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Run Towards War with Iran 0
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- October 30, 2011
In the wake of the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, the predictable chorus of right-wingers has come forward to promote one of their favourite causes: the idea of an attack on Iran. Not surprisingly, the idea …
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Libya and Canada’s Political Influence: A Different Perspective 0
- Analysis
- October 28, 2011
by Philippe Lagassé

Did Canada play a critical political role in relation to the Libya intervention? My colleague Roland Paris is skeptical. In an earlier post on this blog, he points out that Canada’s political influence was secondary at best, …
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Did Canada Play a “Critical” Role in Libya?0
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- October 28, 2011
Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues to take bows for Canada’s involvement in the Libya mission. “Canada has played a critical role both politically and militarily to protect innocent civilians against a cruel and oppressive regime,” he said in a statement…
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Mission incomplète 0
- Analysis
- October 28, 2011
par Justin Massie

Published in La Presse.ca, October 27, 2011

La guerre en Libye est maintenant terminée, du moins celle dans laquelle sont engagés les Occidentaux, avec la mort du dictateur Mouammar Kadhafi. Selon le ministre des Affaires étrangères, …
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When More is Less: The Commonwealth and Human Rights 0
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- October 28, 2011
The Prime Minister arrives today in Perth, Australia, for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), straight into a debate over human rights. Some Commonwealth members want the organisation to take a much stronger stand when other members breach …
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Is There a Problem in Canada-U.S. Relations?0
- Analysis
- October 26, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org.

When they met in Washington last February, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama announced a “new long-term partnership” between Canada and the U.S., which would “accelerate …
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‘Conflict Minerals’, Canada and African Civil Wars 0
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- October 26, 2011
The global campaign against so-called ‘conflict minerals’ is gathering pace, with Canada playing a central role.The campaign is primarily focused on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from where reports about ‘rape’ or ‘blood’ cellphones’ have fueled our …
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A Victory for the Responsibility to Protect 0
- Analysis
- October 25, 2011
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock

Published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2011

In a fortuitous coincidence, last week’s liberation of Libya occurred exactly a decade after the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle was proposed by the Canadian-initiated …
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First CETA, then India and China: Whither the WTO?0
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- October 25, 2011
As Canada and the European Union held the ninth round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Ottawa last week, and moved closer to a conclusion in 2012, what will be the impact on the World …
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Canada Pulls More than its Weight in NATO 0
- Analysis
- October 25, 2011
Published in the Ottawa Citizen,October 25, 2011

For much of NATO’s history, the term “burden-sharing” sent Canadian officials scrambling for cover. Coined during the long standoff with the Soviet Union, the term encapsulated a complex debate over who was, and …
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A Democratic or Technocratic Civil Service?0
- Analysis
- October 21, 2011
by Philippe Lagassé

Forum: DND and Academic Policy Advice.
In this forum, CIPS blog contributors respond to a report written by Douglas Bland and Richard Shimooka of Queen’s University, who argue that the Department of National Defense pays little attention …
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