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Reforming the Spy Game 0
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- January 21, 2014
When it comes to secret intelligence, the United States sometimes behaves like a true democracy. It reminds me of the Leonard Cohen line, “democracy is coming…to the U.S.A.”

President Barack Obama’s speech on January 17 marked an important occasion in …
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Canada and Bangladesh: Beyond Rana Plaza 0
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- January 20, 2014
By Alicia Dobson and Stephen Baranyi

This essay, along with the ones by Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy and by Syed Sajjadur Rahman, arose out of the Bangladesh: Out of Fragility symposium held at the University of Ottawa on November 26, …
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Bangladesh: The Future of Development Partnerships 0
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- January 20, 2014
By Syed Sajjadur Rahman, Visiting Professor, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa

This essay, along with the ones by Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy and by Stephen Baranyi and Alicia Dobson, arose out of the Bangladesh: Out …
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Bangladesh: Out of Fragility?0
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- January 20, 2014
By Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

This essay, along with the ones by Sajjad Rahman and by Stephen Baranyi and Alicia Dobson, arose out of the Bangladesh: Out …
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Authorizing U.S. Warfare: Domestic Critics, Global Constituencies and the Renewal of the AUMF 0
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- January 19, 2014
By Mariah Zeisberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. She will be giving a lecture at CIPS on January 23, 2014.

The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the United States Congress enacted after …
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Implications of the Kabul Restaurant Attack 0
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- January 19, 2014
Since news broke of Friday’s horrific suicide attack on the largely foreign clientele of a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, attention has understandably focused on the civilians who lost their lives, including two Canadians. But the event, which comes at a …
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Why is Ottawa Accelerating its International Aid Budget Cuts by Stealth?0
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- January 14, 2014
by Bruce Montador

The Harper government started two years ago to cut back on official development assistance (ODA), announcing in 2012 a three-year series of cuts (even if Canada is among the donor countries least under fiscal pressure to cut …
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Checking Whose Reality? Contra Burney/Hampson on Canada’s Mideast Policy 0
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- January 11, 2014
Writing last week in the Globe and Mail (“Canada and the Middle East – A reality check”), Derek Burney and Fen Hampson aim to “set the record straight” regarding the Harper government’s diplomacy in the Middle East. Their effort …
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Passports Are Powerful Tools 0
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- January 10, 2014
In A Thousand Farewells, her memoir of covering civil unrest and war in the Middle East, Canadian reporter Nahlah Ayed writes about the striking reception her citizenship received in that region. The Winnipeg-born daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Ayed found …
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A Response to Derek Burney on Canada’s Foreign Policy 0
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- January 3, 2014
A January 2^nd op-ed in the Globe and Mail (republished in the CIPS Blog) on the current foreign policy of the Conservatives generated a lot of responses. Many were supportive, and others were quite critical. That is …
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Why Did it Take So Long to (Sort of) Finalize the CETA?0
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- January 3, 2014
In the fall of 2013 the Government of Canada finally announced that it had finalized (sort of) an agreement with the European Union for a comprehensive trade and economic agreement. I say “sort of” since all that was released was …
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Canada’s Bitter, Small-Minded Foreign Policy 0
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- January 2, 2014
A foreign policy comprises many things. Interests, however defined, often dominate. But values must also be present if that policy is to be more than a series of transactions. Canada has always been a curious country when it comes to …
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