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Africa: No Longer “The Hopeless Continent”0
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- December 13, 2011
“Africa Rising” declared The Economist’s front page last week. How things change! Eleven years ago, the front page of the same prestigious weekly declared Africa “The Hopeless Continent”. Then a young soldier brandishing an RPG peered menacingly at the …
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Canada-U.S. Perimeter Plan: From Aspiration to Action?0
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- December 8, 2011
Yesterday, Canada and the United States announced a security and economic cooperation plan similar in style and substance to the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It’s worth recalling, therefore, that the SPP died of neglect shortly …
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Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol 0
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- December 6, 2011
So the Canadian government is apparently planning, according to numerous media reports, to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Minister, Peter Kent, refuses to confirm or deny the reports.

The surprise should perhaps precisely be that this …
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The Austerity Trap 0
- Analysis
- December 4, 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In …
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No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia 0
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- December 1, 2011
This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that had left …
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Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning 0
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- November 30, 2011
The Government last week paid tribute to Canadian Forces who served in the recently-concluded NATO mission in Libya. It was a welcome gesture to those who serve Canada abroad, often with little or no recognition at all. And it was …
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Missiles and Mistrust in Europe 0
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- November 28, 2011
At the NATO Lisbon Summit in 2010, the U.S. and its allies expressed the hope that Russia would become a partner in a new missile defense system designed to protect Europe from a nuclear-armed ‘rogue’ state such as Iran. Those …
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Un énoncé conservateur de politique étrangère 0
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- 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 …
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Keystone XL and its Impact on Canada-U.S. Relations: A Red Herring?0
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- 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 …
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Almost One Year On: Lessons from the Arab Spring 0
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- November 25, 2011
Guest contributor: STEFAN WOLFF
Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, UK

When Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, about 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, set himself …
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Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Let’s Not Get Overexcited Here!0
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- 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 …
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A Pivotal Moment? U.S. Policy Towards Asia 0
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- 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 …
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