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Killing Suleimani: The Tricky Business of Predicting What Comes Next
- January 6, 2020
The killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani has triggered the writing of a plethora of op-eds and think-pieces. Many of these make bold predictions without, in fact, providing a great deal of factual basis to support them. In reality, it …
By Farhad Rezaei
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Canada Must Learn Its Own Lessons from Afghanistan
- December 20, 2019
In 2003, I saw optimism pervading the country. I saw it on the faces of men, women and children. But that is no longer the case. What should Canada learn for future massive-scale aid programs?

Recently, the Washington Post …
By Nipa Banerjee
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What Do Canadians Think of China and the US?
- December 18, 2019
There’s support for contact with China despite worries and uncertainties and a lack of trust in the US, a University of British Columbia survey finds.

Amidst the diplomatic crisis affecting Canada-China relations that has followed the arrests of Huawei chief …
By Pascale Massot, Paul Evans and Xiaojun Li
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Tunisie: Élection de Kais Saïed. Quel projet pour quelle réalité politico-juridique?
- December 13, 2019
Constitutionaliste de formation, Kais Saïed a remporté haut la main les élections présidentielles tunisiennes en récoltant 72% de l’ensemble des votants (57%). L’exercice électoral était digne d’une grande démocratie comme en témoignent les observateurs nationaux et internationaux. Cependant, de nombreuses …
By Jabeur Fathally
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Meet NATO’s New Champion: President Donald Trump
- December 11, 2019
After spending years belittling and undermining the western world’s principal military alliance, during his recent trip to London to celebrate the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) 70th birthday, President Trump sounded a different tune. Instead of continuing his attack on …
By Alexandra Gheciu
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Is the Iranian Empire Striking Back? Lessons from the Collapse of the Soviet Union
- December 6, 2019
Exporting the communist revolution was a defining mission of the Soviet Union. But in practice, this translated into redirecting massive amounts of resources away from the domestic sphere, where they were desperately needed, towards consolidating the USSR’s influence over other …
By Farhad Rezaei and Ofira Seliktar
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Causes and Results of Recent North Korea-US Negotiations
- December 3, 2019
In September 2017 US President, Donald Trump, and North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un were engaged in a furious interchange of insults and threats. However, less than a year later “Little rocket man” – as Trump called Kim in a speech …
By James Trottier
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Priority One: Saving the Canadian Foreign Service
- November 28, 2019
The Canadian foreign service is in desperate condition. If the Trudeau government hopes to achieve its foreign policy objectives, its first priority should be a wholesale reform of Global Affairs Canada that focuses on the rejuvenation of the foreign service. …
By Daniel Livermore
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Le Canada et le développement démocratique dans le monde
- November 25, 2019
Le Canada affiche un maigre bilan en matière de soutien à la démocratie dans le monde. Ce blogue suggère quelques pistes pour corriger le tir, tel qu’adopter un plan d’action

À plusieurs reprises, tant au Canada qu’à l’étranger, l’ancienne ministre …
By Stéphanie Bacher
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Economic exceptionalism is back (if it ever went away)
- November 20, 2019
Exceptionalism is usually used to describe how liberal democracies handle major security threats. However, governments also use exceptionalist policies to deal with economic crises. This development is troubling for both economic and political reasons.

What do Boris Johnson’s attempt to …
By Jacqueline Best
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A new Cold War?
- November 19, 2019
Thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is a very different place. The liberal world order that appeared triumphant in 1989 faces unprecedented challenges – including renewed hostility from Russia – but also from a …
By Alexandra Gheciu
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Most wars don’t make states (so what’s a policymaker to do?)
- November 11, 2019
Most modern warfare is intrastate. Most take place in poorer, weaker states and challenge many of our assumptions about the evolution of most states. Foreign policymakers should reevaluate their priorities and focus on ending civil wars rather than building centralised …
By Arjun Chowdhury
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