The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada0

• Analysis
• March 29, 2022

A young man named Deepan Budlakoti remains caught in a legal limbo created and perpetuated by the Canadian government’s refusal to acknowledge his citizenship. He was born in Ottawa in 1987, and until 2009, he assumed that meant he was …

What was Behind the Indian Farmers’ Protests?0

• Analysis
• March 28, 2022

Extreme nationalism and anti-Muslim hatred are mounting in India, all at the expense of its democracy. It is being led or coddled by the sitting Government of Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But the …

Amnistie internationale : un réquisitoire essentiel0

• Analysis
• March 14, 2022

Amnesty International vient de publier un document choc sur les droits de la personne en Israël et dénonce la politique d’apartheid du régime en place. Les réactions pavloviennes du côté tant du gouvernemental israélien que de la diaspora juive dans …

Africa, Ukraine, and the New Geopolitics0

• Analysis
• March 9, 2022

When the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the African vote split right down the middle. Of the 54-member strong bloc, 28 voted for the resolution, 26 abstained or absented themselves, while Eritrea stood …

Afghanistan: Tying Aid to Women’s Rights0

• Analysis
• March 8, 2022

As the world’s attention shifted dramatically to the Ukraine crises unfolding rapidly, the challenges posed by the humanitarian catastrophe threatening Afghanistan have been overshadowed and moved to the backseat. However, Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate as the country’s economy …

Putin is Waging War on Eastern Ukraine0

• Analysis
• March 7, 2022

Historians have known for a long time that the idea that Ukrainians form a different nation than Russians, and therefore decide of their own destiny, is seen by Moscow, and a large segment of the Russian population, as artificial, as …

Vladimir Putin: Saviour of NATO0

• Analysis
• March 2, 2022

To my knowledge, NATO does not have a “Person of the Year” award, but it should, and the inaugural award should go to none other than Vladimir V. Putin.  No one has done more for the Atlantic Alliance in many …

A New Approach is Needed to Blunt the Appeal of Far-Right Movements0

• Analysis
• February 18, 2022

The trucker convoy that rolled onto the streets of Ottawa late last month has become an unlikely cause célèbre for far-right movements and anti-vaxxers around the world. The scenario that has unfolded is not how Canada sees itself, and it …

Obfuscation and Ventriloquy: Does Canada Speak for the World’s Poor?0

• Analysis
• February 9, 2022

The tweet from Cooperation Canada after the webinar said it all: ‘“We want to be a voice for the low-income countries”, explains @HarjitSajjan of Canada’s response to the pandemic #COVID19 around the world’. Funny thing, we thought the low-income countries …

Being Critical about Intelligence Studies: a New Research Agenda0

• Analysis
• February 7, 2022

In a recent CIPS podcast, Srdjan Vucetic, David Murakami Wood and myself discussed criticality in Intelligence Studies and Surveillance Studies. The question was simple enough: what does ‘critique’ mean in the context of both fields of scholarship?

To respond …

Bullying and the Ghosts of History0

• Analysis
• January 25, 2022

History never repeats exactly; there are always different nuances and circumstances.  Our understanding of the past, on which we apply any equivalence, is distorted by the perspectives of our time.  Reliance on historical analogy is therefore risky.  

The crisis in …

The Disinformation Industry – A Cure Worse than the Disease?0

• Analysis
• January 25, 2022

In April last year, several hundred people marched through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in honour of the SS Galicia Division, a collaborationist Ukrainian unit from World War Two. The event provoked me to write a piece that was published on …