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Is the Trudeau Government Losing Interest in LGBTI Rights?0
- Analysis
- January 21, 2020
Justin Trudeau has been a better ally to gay communities than his predecessor. However, he seems to be losing interest in protecting the rights of LGBTI people in other countries, despite the desperate need for such support.

Justin Trudeau’s government …
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Fortress of Democracy: Taiwan’s Election Deserves Strong International Support 0
- Analysis
- January 20, 2020
After a fierce electoral campaign, 19 million voters in Taiwan woke up on January 11, 2020, with important choices to make in their country’s presidential and legislative election.

The voting itself is very local. Polling stations, one for every 1500 …
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Iran-U.S. Crisis Reminds Us How Culture Matters in Wartime 0
- Analysis, News, Repost
- January 15, 2020
As tensions have ratcheted up between the United States and Iran, a series of tweets by President Donald Trump threatening the deliberate targeting of Iranian cultural sites triggered a strong negative reaction around the world.

In fact, following Trump’s …
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What Are the Benefits and Pitfalls of ‘Data-Driven’ Peacekeeping?0
- Analysis
- January 9, 2020
The UN is committed to improving peace operations by making them more ‘data-driven,’ but the move toward systematic data analysis comes with practical, ethical, and political challenges.

UN
peace operations face a variety of problems, but one of the most …
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Killing Suleimani: The Tricky Business of Predicting What Comes Next 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Canada Must Learn Its Own Lessons from Afghanistan 0
- Analysis
- 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 published …
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What Do Canadians Think of China and the US?0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Tunisie: Élection de Kais Saïed. Quel projet pour quelle réalité politico-juridique?0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Meet NATO’s New Champion: President Donald Trump 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Is the Iranian Empire Striking Back? Lessons from the Collapse of the Soviet Union 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Causes and Results of Recent North Korea-US Negotiations 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Priority One: Saving the Canadian Foreign Service 0
- Analysis
- 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. …
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