Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation
- Analysis
- December 18, 2018
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2025: The Year Foreign Aid Fell Off a Cliff0
The latest numbers on foreign aid are out, and 2025 proved to be a record-breaking year – but not for the right reasons. It was a historic retreat, with a devastating impact. And there is no sign that aid will …
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Improving Girls’ Access to Post-Secondary Education in Ethiopia as Key to Building Unstoppable Feminist Futures0
By: Rebecca Tiessen, University of Ottawa, Yvette Macabuag, Cuso International, and Anik Cooke, Cuso International
Bethlehem is a young woman completing grade 11 in secondary school in Ethiopia. As a participant in the U-GIRLS 2 project facilitated by Cuso International, …
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Settler Colonial Worldmaking0
Looking out at our world made up of sovereign states, its organization can feel quite natural. After all, historical development has driven us to the point where sovereignty contained within modern states comes as something of a given. Settler-colonial states, …
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A Decade of the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda: Why Disengagement and Reintegration Cannot Be Ignored0
In 2025, the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda marked its tenth anniversary. Over that decade, the agenda has undeniably gained visibility. Since the adoption of Security Council resolution 2250 in 2015, youth participation in peace and security discussions has …
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Cultural Heritage Protection as a Strategic Imperative in a Widening War on Iran0
Since the start of the ongoing United States–Israeli military campaign against Iran, the human toll of the conflict has mounted relentlessly.
Civilian casualties have been reported across the country, and the bombing campaign has caused widespread destruction to infrastructure. …
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War in Iran: What Does Trump Want?0
From the beginning of the Iran conflict, Donald Trump has presented an array of reasons and objectives for attacking Iran. Many of them are contradictory.
- It’s about nuclear weapons (the same ones that were “obliterated” last year);
- It’s about fundamental
A Canadian’s Past, Present and Future with China0
Past: The Promise of Reform
Almost fifty years ago, I arrived in Shanghai as a member of the Fudan University class of ’77. I was the first foreign student admitted to the Philosophy Department’s History of Ancient Chinese Thought Program …
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How Tensions in the Middle East Affect Africa’s Economy, Security, and Geopolitics0
Since 28 February 2026, the Middle East has experienced sustained hostilities following United States and Israeli strikes against Iran and subsequent retaliation by Iran. Iranian missile and drone attacks have been reported across several countries in the region. Leaders across …
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War Against Iran: From International Law to Epstein’s Law0
The new episode in the war against Iran is unlike the previous ones, which were either conducted directly or mainly through proxies. We are witnessing a large-scale aggression that is a turning point not only in the history of the …
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Trump’s Iran Strikes and Carney’s New-World-Order Tightrope0
Early Saturday morning, the United States and Israel initiated a second round of aerial attacks against Iran following the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites of last June.
The justifications for this latest illegal military action by the Trump administration …
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Middle Power Pragmatism Needed0
By Benjamin Zyla, Madison Fillmore and Katelyn Cassin
After Mark Carney’s special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the idea of a “middle power” has gained renewed attention in Canada. It was also mentioned several times at …
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Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”?0
Half a century after Canada’s “Third Option” sought – unsuccessfully – to reduce economic dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling on middle powers to chart a new “third path” in a fractured global order. Revisiting …
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The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops
- Analysis
- February 26, 2018
Peacekeeping Works Better Than You May Think
- Analysis
- August 2, 2014
Theory and the City
- Analysis
- September 3, 2012
