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A Beginner’s Guide to Economic Ignorance 0
- Analysis, Repost
- November 5, 2019
Ignorance is not the antithesis to knowledge, but it is part of it. Wishful thinking, muddling through and other forms of ignorance play a crucial role in shaping economic policy and its effects on society.

We hear a lot about …
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Autocrats Use Feminism to Undermine Democracy 0
- Analysis
- October 30, 2019
More women are being elected in autocratic regimes, but this is part of a democratic facade. The definition of democracy needs to change.

Fake news, disinformation, foreign influence in elections: We’re starting to understand the ways bad actors attack …
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Issues in Repairing U.S.-Russian Strategic Relations 0
- Analysis
- October 24, 2019
Similar to during the Cold War, the US and Russia are once again nuclear peer competitors. However, the emergence of a range of new nuclear actors hamper traditional understandings and represent a new – more complex – era in nuclear …
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This Election, Canadians Can’t Afford to Ignore Parties’ Defence Policies 0
- Analysis
- October 18, 2019
By Thomas Juneau and Srdjan Vucetic

With the federal election days away, Canada faces five major defence challenges: the fragmentation of the rules-based international order, over-reliance on the United States, the challenges posed by emerging technologies, how Canada procures weapons …
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What Does a New Ambassador Mean for Canada-China Relations?0
- Analysis
- October 17, 2019
By John Gruetzner and Geoffrey Ziebart

The appointment of former McKinsey executive, Domonic Barton, as Canada’s new ambassador to China presents a new opportunity to reset bilateral relations. However, while Barton is well-positioned to further Canadian interests in the world’s …
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Boris Johnson Goes to China – via Ireland 0
- Analysis, News
- October 5, 2019
Boris Johnson’s ‘final offer’ to the EU for a Brexit deal may be effectively dead on arrival, but even if so, does it make a future united Ireland more likely?

Did anyone notice Boris Johnson’s Nixon-in-China move the other …
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Star Wars: Coming Soon to a Space Near You – The Diplomatic Alternative 0
- Analysis
- October 3, 2019
Will Outer Space become a new frontier for international conflict? Or can it remain a global commons? As states dither, this question may soon be taken over by other actors.

I confess that I gave this blog its title with …
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F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road 0
- Analysis, Repost
- September 22, 2019
By Jonathan D. Caverley, Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic

While China’s Belt and Road Initiative has captured the headlines, the network of alliances based around Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II offers advanced technology and close ties to the United
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History, Memory, and Politics in Post-Communist Eastern Europe 0
- Analysis
- September 19, 2019
The fact that East European trauma under communism is not adequately understood and appreciated in the West is the central grievance of these movements, and this feeds into new cycles of victimization

In October 2017, a commemorative plaque “In Memory …
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Neoliberalism’s ‘Unfailures’0
- Analysis
- September 16, 2019
The late 1970s and early 1980s are a moment in time that is often seen as a resounding success for neoliberal theory and practice

Economic policies enacted under neoliberalism have often failed to meet their objectives, but have remained unchallenged. …
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Sending More Canadians Abroad: Innovative or Old-Fashioned Development Assistance?0
- Analysis, Repost, Research
- September 12, 2019
Why is the Canadian government trotting out such an old-fashioned approach to aid?

Does the world need more Canadians? Global Affairs Canada recently announced a new initiative to send more Canadians abroad to help developing countries fight poverty. The new …
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Nationalist Internationalists? The Strange Paradoxes of the Global Right 0
- Analysis
- September 9, 2019
By Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Alexandra Gheciu, Srdjan Vucetic and Michael C. Williams

The first step toward meeting the challenge of the Radical Right is to understand their ideas, strategies, and organisations.

For nearly three years, we have been researching …
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