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Is Global Warming Accelerating? A Terrifying Scientific Debate with No Easy Policy Options 0
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- October 11, 2023
Unless you’ve been living underneath a rock, you will have heard that global average temperatures were shattered this summer. July and August were the hottest months ever recorded (since record-keeping began in 1850), and September 2023 was orders of …
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What the Alliance des États du Sahel Means for Security Politics in West Africa 0
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- October 4, 2023
The Sahel region has been at the heart of African peace and security concerns for over a decade. While the ongoing conflict in Mali is an epicentre of insecurity in the region, no state has been untouched by jihadist insurgencies …
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Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy as Military Diplomacy 0
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- September 28, 2023
Canada’s military is already taking its place in the Indo-Pacific. On August 15, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) announced that the frigates HMCS Ottawa and Vancouver, along with supply ship Asterix, had set sail for nearly five months …
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What To Do About the Canadians Imprisoned in Syria?0
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- September 20, 2023
It’s time to go back to basics when discussing the issue of the Canadians currently imprisoned in Syria. This issue can be approached in several different ways. But it can’t be ignored. Canadians may not like where this case is …
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AUKUS, Two Years Later 0
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- September 15, 2023
Last fall, CIPS held a conference on AUKUS, the defence agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The conference proceedings have now been published as a themed issue of International Journal, Canada’s pre-eminent outlet for …
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Space Security: Unresolved Problems, Emerging Challenges 0
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- September 8, 2023
Space is crowded. There is a traffic jam in low earth orbit (LEO, 200 to 2000 km above the earth). There are a very large number of both civilian and military satellites in LEO, both operational and defunct – not …
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Ukraine War Scores Indirect Hits on Central Asia 0
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- August 28, 2023
Pointing subtly to the four men working on laptops on the other side of the café, our guide said softly, “Those are the Russians.” In cafés, restaurants and hotel lobbies throughout Central Asia, we saw similar scenes: young to middle-aged …
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🏆 2024 Best Blog Award Winner❗️Exclusion and Democracy: A Look at Immigration Justice in Democratic States 0
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- July 19, 2023
The news is filled with stories of migrants, many of whom are asylum seekers, struggling to gain access to safe states and of the poor treatment with which they are met when they finally do. In the United States, …
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Feminist Responses to Crisis in Venezuela, Haiti and Poland 0
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- June 28, 2023
On March 2, 2023, CIPS and Fòs Feminista hosted a webinar to discuss the responses of local feminist organizations to the growing humanitarian crises along the borders of Venezuela, Haiti and Poland. We learned that these local feminist organizations fill …
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Uganda’s Harsh Anti-Gay Campaign Could Spread Beyond its Borders 0
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- June 2, 2023
Being gay in Uganda has never been easy. It just got a lot worse, and a lot more dangerous. Against fierce domestic and international pressure from human rights defenders, President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law one of the harshest …
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The Issues Involved in Using the “Persona Non-Grata” Option 0
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- May 9, 2023
Recent controversies involving Chinese diplomatic and consular personnel in Canada have again raised the thorny issue of declaring foreign diplomats “persona non grata,” thereby throwing them out of Canada for their transgressions. The “PNG” concept is a reflexive, almost automatic …
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International Development Cooperation and LGBTQ+ Rights in Africa 0
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- May 9, 2023
Sexual and gender minorities are under attack in several African countries. For instance, over the past couple of years, extreme anti-LGBTQ+ legislation has been introduced in Ghana and Uganda, where homosexuality was already illegal. Kenya and Tanzania could well …
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