The End of Canada’s Exorbitant Privilege: Mapping Where We Go From Here
- Analysis
- March 26, 2024
By making standing trees worth more than dead ones, the concept of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) was expected to be a quick, cheap and easy way to lessen the climate impacts …
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As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022, the perception of the roles and nature of European institutions has changed. Before the invasion, the purpose of European institutions, particularly the European Union, NATO, and other Euro-wide …
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We recently joined over 300 lawyers and legal scholars in an Open Letter urging the Canadian government to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in line with international law. The ongoing refusal to do so is an utter failure …
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Internet shutdowns are now commonplace in some African states, particularly those under authoritarian rule or impacted by instability and insecurity. Explanations for these – usually state-imposed – disruptions generally focus on a government’s repressive intent, and desire to restrict or …
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Of the world’s nine states with nuclear weapons, two – Russia and Israel – are now fighting high intensity wars. Another three of the nuclear nine – the United States, the United Kingdom, and France – are deeply invested in …
READ MORESome new technology will be unstoppable. We are not going to be able to stop unmanned drone technology. At best we can try to regulate its usage, which in times of war can be like whistling in the wind.
In …
READ MOREDiplomatic efforts towards the goal of preventing an arms race in space are floundering as leading space powers opt for confrontation over cooperation.
The importance of outer space in terms of the continued operations in that environment free from threats …
READ MOREThe aftermath of Hamas’ despicable October 7 attack against Israeli civilians threatens to spiral in ways which will widen the conflict and create many more casualties. Aside from Gaza, attention is focused on Israel’s border with Lebanon and the threat …
READ MOREOn Monday, October 30 and Wednesday, November 1, Foreign Affairs Minister, Mélanie Joly, gave essentially the same speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto and the Conseil des relations internationales de Montréal (CORIM) in Montreal. The speech was …
READ MOREOn October 30, CIPS hosted an event featuring members of a controversial United Nations commission. The event was co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (which I direct), the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and the …
READ MOREIn 2020, a war took place between Armenia and Azerbaijan, resulting in several thousand casualties. The 44-day war ended with an Azeri military victory over Armenia and the capture of an important part of Nagorno-Karabagh. Following a ceasefire and the
For all who say this is not the time to discuss the wider human rights context to this conflict, we say there has never been a more necessary time.
If ever there was a time for a serious discussion about