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The G8 Summit: Another Flawed Show?0
- Analysis
- June 27, 2013
The G8 Summit took place quietly in Northern Ireland on June 17-18. UK Prime Minister Cameron was in the chair, with his bold TTT (Taxes, Trade and Transparency) theme.

None of the actors around the conference table brought rosy economic …
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New Powers Won’t Play by Old Rules on Human Rights 0
- Analysis
- June 26, 2013
Published in the e-zine openGlobalRights, June 25, 2013

The following piece is a contribution to the Global Rights forum on Open Democracy. Over the next year, this forum will provide a venue for discussion and debate on a number …
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The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why Is Canada Lagging Behind?0
- Analysis
- June 20, 2013
From the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute:

A new report by Roland Paris, CDFAI Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, examines the burgeoning world of digital diplomacy and concludes …
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Canada’s Brave New World of Digital Diplomacy 0
- Analysis
- June 18, 2013
Is it diplomacy, propaganda or subversion? There’s a question of naming going on these days in Canadian diplomacy, amid our government’s high-profile feud with Iran. It starts from a seemingly minor venture that opens up into something quite major: the …
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What’s Next After Iran’s Surprise Election Result?0
- Analysis
- June 17, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, June 16, 2013

The Iranian electorate has surprised us. Most Iran experts (mea culpa – me too) had confidently expected that Hassan Rouhani had little chance of victory. But then he won. …
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Does Canadian Diplomacy Need an Office of Religious Engagement?0
- Analysis
- June 12, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 10, 2013

Depending on your view of Canada’s recently opened Office of Religious Freedom, you may or may not welcome the likelihood that a related idea from the U.S. State Department will be …
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A New Chapter in US-China Relations?0
- Analysis
- June 11, 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have just concluded a two-day summit, which was described by U.S. officials as positive and constructive. The summit, held at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, just outside Palm Springs, was the …
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20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern 0
- Analysis
- June 11, 2013
by Michael Geist

Published on www.michaelgeist.ca, June 11, 2013.

The concerns about telephone and Internet surveillance moved north yesterday as the Globe revealed that Canada has its own metadata surveillance program. The program was discontinued in 2008 after concerns …
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In Defense of Academic ‘Fiddling’0
- Analysis
- June 10, 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2013

Are political scientists failing to play their part as critics of the government in Canada? Lawrence Martin thinks so. Writing in the Globe and Mail last week, he lamented that academics …
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Migrants’ Global Ties Challenge Canada to Make Big-Picture Policy 0
- Analysis
- June 7, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 6, 2013

The American writer Maya Angelou was referring to deep matters of the heart when she said, “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, …
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How Not to Spend $75 Billion 0
- Analysis
- June 6, 2013
Humanitarian motives are given as the justification for a whole series of foreign policy endeavours nowadays, from the most peaceful forms of foreign aid through to full-scale military invasion and occupation of foreign countries. How is that working out? Two …
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The ICTY at 20: Mission Accomplished?0
- Analysis
- May 29, 2013
by Rachel Kerr

On May 25, 2013, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia celebrated its twentieth anniversary. After 20 years and $2.2 billion, what has this extraordinary experiment in international criminal justice achieved? In The Hague, an exhibition …
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