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Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i 0
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- January 9, 2012
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy

With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice. The …
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The Total Surveillance Society Approaches 0
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- December 22, 2011
This commentary appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 22, 2011.

We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens
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What Contracting Out Security Says About the Canadian Foreign Service 0
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- December 21, 2011
A small article in several newspapers this month carried an item noting that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade had solicited bids for threat assessments in 174 countries. The assessments would canvass possible threats to Canada’s missions abroad …
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What Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean 0
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- December 21, 2011
By Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic

The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a …
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Tap Immigrants to Help Shape Foreign Policy 0
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- December 20, 2011
By Tom Axworthy, John Monahan and Natalie Brender

Published in the Globe and Mail, December 20, 2011.

As Canada’s focus on Libya shifts from the drama of regime change to the challenges of peace building and reconstruction, could the …
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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011 0
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- December 16, 2011
In my role as CIPS Blog editor, I’m happy to present what is probably not the first, and likely won’t be the last, ‘best-reads’ list that you’ll be seeing this year. However, it does have the virtue of being distinctive …
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Africa: No Longer “The Hopeless Continent”0
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- December 13, 2011
“Africa Rising” declared The Economist’s front page last week. How things change! Eleven years ago, the front page of the same prestigious weekly declared Africa “The Hopeless Continent”. Then a young soldier brandishing an RPG peered menacingly at the …
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Canada-U.S. Perimeter Plan: From Aspiration to Action?0
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- December 8, 2011
Yesterday, Canada and the United States announced a security and economic cooperation plan similar in style and substance to the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It’s worth recalling, therefore, that the SPP died of neglect shortly …
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Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol 0
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- December 6, 2011
So the Canadian government is apparently planning, according to numerous media reports, to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Minister, Peter Kent, refuses to confirm or deny the reports.

The surprise should perhaps precisely be that this …
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The Austerity Trap 0
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- December 4, 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In …
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No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia 0
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- December 1, 2011
This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that had left …
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Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning 0
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- November 30, 2011
The Government last week paid tribute to Canadian Forces who served in the recently-concluded NATO mission in Libya. It was a welcome gesture to those who serve Canada abroad, often with little or no recognition at all. And it was …
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