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Defending Canada’s Human Rights and Rule of Law Legacy 0
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- January 21, 2013
2013 will see the UN and many countries around the world celebrating the 65^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It should also be the year that we celebrate a Canadian law professor, John Humphrey, who as …
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Mulling Over Mali 0
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- January 15, 2013
To those of us deeply skeptical of the deployment of Western military force in the developing world, the French intervention in Mali in recent days poses something of a dilemma. It appears to be legally and militarily justified, and enjoys …
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A Better Canadian Growth Strategy: Both Inclusive and Effective 0
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- January 14, 2013
Canada is struggling to find a viable export-led growth strategy. So far we are surviving the global financial crisis due to our conservative regulatory framework. But there was no superior Harper-Flaherty economic wisdom or even Bank of Canada Governor Carney …
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Non-State Actors Who Bring Nations Closer 0
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- January 7, 2013
Published in The Hindu, January 5, 2013

A controversy erupted recently over Track Two discussions regarding the Siachen issue. “Track Two Diplomacy” is a term with which much mythology is associated. Some proponents believe that it can cut through …
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Next Year in Jerusalem (And Elsewhere in the Middle East)0
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- January 1, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, December 28, 2012

A year ago, after noting that making predictions about the Middle East is a foolish endeavour, I made a series of predictions about what might happen there in 2012. To …
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Canadian Foreign Policy Going Astray? Fall Highlights from the CIPS Blog 0
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- December 20, 2012
Many sustained themes in the CIPS Blog this term concerned the Harper government’s foreign policy in the Mid-East, at the UN and in its larger vision of Canada’s place among nations.

The semester started off with a critique by CIPS …
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Military Keynesianism: Wrong Then, Wrong Now 0
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- December 17, 2012
In November 1906, the Russian Council of State Defence met to discuss its new naval shipbuilding plan, the centrepiece of which was a proposal to build two new battleships for the Baltic Fleet. Presenting the plan, the Naval Minister, Admiral …
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A Footnote on Canada-Iran Relations 0
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- December 17, 2012
The Harper government took a decision in late August 2012, to bring Canadian diplomats out of Tehran and expel Iranian diplomats in Ottawa. It was described by some observers as a sudden decision, but it was obviously a measure which …
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Defence Procurement Problems Run Deeper Than the F-35 0
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- December 10, 2012
by Philippe Lagassé

Published in the Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 2012

It’s been a rough year for Canadian defence procurement.

This past spring, the Auditor General lambasted the defence department’s lack of due diligence in selecting the F-35 to …
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Succeeding to the Canadian Throne 0
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- December 5, 2012
By James W.J. Bowden and Philippe Lagassé

The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, December 4, 2012

We learned this week that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child. The news was greeted …
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Nuclear Power: Chronicle of a Death Foretold 0
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- December 3, 2012
Extreme events have the ability to radically change political, moral, technical and other debates that shape what governments say and do. The effect of the 2011 Fukushima disaster on national energy strategies was so far-reaching that it led many to …
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Principle or Prejudice? Canada’s Misguided Denial of Palestinian Statehood 0
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- December 3, 2012
Prime Minister Harper tweeted on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had called to thank him for Canada’s “friendship and principled position this week at the UN”. The friendship may be obvious, but one searches in vain for the principle …
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