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Best: The Bank of Canada can’t keep rescuing us in times of crisis 0
- External
- March 11, 2020
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The Impacts of the Feminist International Assistance Policy on Implementing Organizations 0
- Analysis
- March 10, 2020
Canada’s feminist international assistance policy aims to achieve sustainable development and peace through gender equality, but it has also helped reshape the aid industry itself, at home and abroad. Has it gone far enough?

Launched in 2017, Canada’s feminist international …
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The NPT Turns 50: A Mid-life Crisis?0
- Analysis
- March 4, 2020
On March 5, the (Nuclear) Non-proliferation Treaty will turn 50-years old. Whether this will be an occasion for celebration or lamentation is an open question. The NPT’s once-in-five-year review conference will take place at UN HQ, April 27-May 22, and …
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Time to End the Exclusion of Taiwan From the International Civil Aviation Organization 0
- Analysis
- March 3, 2020
On February 13, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) posted an online notice about the economic impact of the travel ban created in response to the international transmission of the COVID-19 virus (i.e. the coronavirus).

Its estimates about the cancellation …
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Understanding Canada’s Middle East Policy in a Tumultuous 2020 0
- Analysis
- March 3, 2020
The new year began with two major crises in the Middle East, both of which have impacted Canadian policy and interests. First, the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by the US in Iraq precipitating the downing of Ukraine Airlines …
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Trump’s New, Undemocratic, Denaturalization Policy 0
- Analysis
- February 27, 2020
This week, the US Justice Department announced the creation of a “Denaturalization Section”, which will focus on stripping US citizenship status of those it believes had acquired it fraudulently. However, this choice contributes to the undermining of the post-World War …
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Human Rights “Inflation”— What’s the Problem?0
- Analysis, Repost
- February 23, 2020
Instead of talking about “rights inflation”, we should understand what we are witnessing are new interpretations that respond to new struggles for human dignity.

It is increasingly common to hear the complaint that there are too many international human rights. …
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Constructing the Liberal Enemy: The International Political Sociology of the New Right 0
- Analysis
- February 20, 2020
A recent cover of L’Express depicts Marine Le Pen at the president’s desk in a glittering Élysée Palace. The unthinkable has become thinkable: Opinion polls put the leader of the Rassemblement National narrowly ahead of President Macron in an assumed …
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The De Facto Quarantine of Taiwan 0
- Analysis
- February 13, 2020
The risk of a global pandemic coming from China is attracting a lot of attention, but it is important to avoid
giving way to hysteria. Canada and the international community should stand
firm in support of Taiwanese rights to participate …
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Quelle nouvelle structure de gouvernance pour l’Arctique?0
- Analysis
- February 13, 2020
At the end of January, the Arctic Frontiers conference, held in Norway, organized a discussion on the future of governance in the Arctic region. Some voices were raised to demand new regional structures of decision-making; these echo the wishes of …
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at Global Affairs Canada 0
- Analysis
- February 12, 2020
Justin Trudeau’s government starts its second mandate with a new look: slightly more subdued; more engaged on pressing national issues; seemingly less prone to putting communications ahead of policy, and more inclined to political realism rather than the naïve sloganeering …
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Disarmament Diplomacy in the Age of Putin and Trump 0
- Analysis
- February 11, 2020
UN officials are not usually given to overstatement, which makes the recent assessment by the UN’s top disarmament diplomat that “the barriers to the use of nuclear weapons are lower than they’ve been since the darkest days of the Cold …
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