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A Dignified Warrior for Peace: Nelson Mandela 0
- Analysis
- December 8, 2013
By Joanne St. Lewis, Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa

My heart is heavy. The braided life of pain, joy, courage, strength and love – indeed, all that was the brilliant complex persona of Nelson Mandela is …
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Is Canada a Responsible Global Partner?0
- Analysis
- December 4, 2013
In anticipation of the December 5th book launch of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, CIPS posed the following question to former Prime Minister Paul Martin (who will be speaking at the event): “What does the recently announced DFATD …
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Poverty, Inequality and Inclusiveness: Which Comes First?0
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- December 3, 2013
These overlapping concepts together frame what many define as one of the principal challenges of modern society in both developing and developed countries. They have recently come to focus for two distinct reasons. The global financial crisis has exposed new …
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How Canada Goes to War 0
- Analysis
- December 3, 2013
by Philippe Lagassé

Canada’s military training mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. When the Canadian Forces are next sent overseas, members of Parliament will likely vote on the mission. The Conservative government has made it a point to consult …
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Breaking: New Snowden Document Shows Something But We Don’t Know Exactly What 0
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- November 28, 2013
The headline above is the one that I think probably best captures the content of the NSA document at the heart of the recent Toronto G20/G8 spying story. This appears to be the first in the additional trove of documents …
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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade 0
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over …
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Iran is a Process. Pay Attention, Canada 0
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The interim Iranian nuclear deal is just that: interim. It is not the final word on the Iranian nuclear problem; it buys time for a permanent solution to be negotiated.

Iran has agreed to temporarily constrain its nuclear program in …
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Canada Must Hold Firm in Opposing US Efforts to Expand Intellectual Property Rights 0
- Analysis
- November 27, 2013
Our federal government seems hell-bent on signing as many new free trade and investment treaties as possible. We just completed one ‘in principle’ with the European Union (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA); we finalized one with Honduras …
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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa 0
- Analysis
- November 26, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013

As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was …
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As Iran Opens to the World, Canada is Left Behind 0
- Analysis
- November 25, 2013
by John Mundy

Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013

The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. …
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott 0
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- November 18, 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott …
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Sexy Vanilla: Canada-EU Free Trade 0
- Analysis
- November 14, 2013
by Robert Hage

The same week that celebrity British street artist Banksy upset New Yorkers by saying the new World Trade Center is “vanilla…and looks like something they would build in Canada”, an Economist headline stated, “Canada doesn’t get any …
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