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Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender 0
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- January 20, 2012
In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries.

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CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes 0
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- January 19, 2012
A column in today’s Ottawa Citizen describes new levels of politicization, ineffectiveness and obfuscation at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). None of this is particularly surprising, since that agency’s misfortunes—largely due to its successive political masters—have been well-known for …
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Libya Intervention of 2011: A Victory With Asterisks 0
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- January 10, 2012
This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Quarterly Review.

The grotesque display of Muammar Qaddafi’s bloodied corpse in Sirte, Libya, where he was captured and killed, and later in …
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La révolution conservatrice 0
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- January 10, 2012
par Justin Massie

Quel bilan annuel peut-on dresser de la politique étrangère du gouvernement Harper ? Grâce à la majorité parlementaire obtenue en mai dernier, le premier ministre bénéficie d’une immense autonomie politique – une « dictature bienveillante » selon …
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Nothing Much Will Change: the New U.S. Military Strategy 0
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- January 10, 2012
The recently-published new U.S. military strategy, entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, attracted a great deal of attention last week, with some critics denouncing what they claimed were excessive cuts in defence spending, and others …
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The Queen is the Canadian Crown 0
- Analysis
- January 10, 2012
by Philippe Lagassé

The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on January 9, 2012

Should Canada abandon its constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Several commentators and notable politicians think so.

Accustomed to seeing the monarchy as a …
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Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i 0
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- January 9, 2012
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy

With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice. The …
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The Total Surveillance Society Approaches 0
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- December 22, 2011
This commentary appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 22, 2011.

We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens
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What Contracting Out Security Says About the Canadian Foreign Service 0
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- December 21, 2011
A small article in several newspapers this month carried an item noting that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade had solicited bids for threat assessments in 174 countries. The assessments would canvass possible threats to Canada’s missions abroad …
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What Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean 0
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- December 21, 2011
By Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic

The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a …
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Tap Immigrants to Help Shape Foreign Policy 0
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- December 20, 2011
By Tom Axworthy, John Monahan and Natalie Brender

Published in the Globe and Mail, December 20, 2011.

As Canada’s focus on Libya shifts from the drama of regime change to the challenges of peace building and reconstruction, could the …
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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011 0
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- December 16, 2011
In my role as CIPS Blog editor, I’m happy to present what is probably not the first, and likely won’t be the last, ‘best-reads’ list that you’ll be seeing this year. However, it does have the virtue of being distinctive …
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