Decolonial Research & Knowledge: Perspectives on Ceremonial Transformations and Climate Resilience

February 20, 2025 - 1:00pm

Presented by CIPS and the Security Studies Network

This talk will feature two presentations:

Dr. Ranjan Datta – Anti-racist and Decolonial Research as a Ceremonial Transformation: From a Colour Settler Perspective 

This presentation explores how decolonial and anti-racist research approaches …

How the Insurance Sector is Practically Ignorant to Climate Risks: Anosognosic to Uncomfortable Knowledge 

February 27, 2025 - 2:30pm

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

As social scientists continue to contend with almost ceaseless crises, scholars have undertaken an epistemic turn in International Political Economy (IPE) in a bid to deconstruct how knowledge is produced, …

Book talk – Disruptive by Design: Health, Conflict, and Humanitarian Governance in the Middle East

March 6, 2025 - 2:00pm

Presented by CIPS

Emily K. M. Scott will present her research exploring how and why humanitarian actors sometimes act disruptively to control issues previously held outside humanitarian bounds. From building advanced reconstructive surgery hospitals that treat wounds ‘gone cold,’ and …

EU-Taiwan Relations: What Can Canada Learn?

March 7, 2025 - 2:00pm

Presented by CIPS and the Asian Studies Network (ASN)

Between 2008 and 2020, Dr. Zsuzsa Anna FERENCZY worked at the European Parliament as a political advisor, an experience that has contributed to her research on EU-Taiwan ties. In her book, …

Curating Data for International Security: Trust and Care in Multi-level Information Systems

March 12, 2025 - 1:00pm

Presented by CIPS and the Security Studies Network

“Good data, they are trustworthy, first of all. They are clear and… It’s data that I can, yes, the trustworthiness, that is the most important thing for data, I think.” This is …

Canada Under Influence? Unpacking the Foreign Interference Commission Report

March 20, 2025 - 1:00pm

Pre-registration: Google Forms

Presented by the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, the Public Law Centre and the Centre for International Policy Studies

On January 28, the Foreign Interference Commission released their final report presenting the findings …

Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel

April 4, 2025 - 10:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Theory Network (ITN)

When we hear ‘homeland security,’ we often think about the aftermath of September 11th and the dramatic consolidation of domestic mass surveillance in the United States. Less well-known are the term’s …

The Rise of Nature-Related Risks and the Climatization of Biodiversity

February 6, 2025 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

The concept of ‘nature-related risks’ has emerged over the last five years as a key framework for integrating biodiversity into sustainable finance knowledge and practices. Drawing on interviews, documents, and …

Canada First, Not Canada Alone: The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Foreign Policy

February 5, 2025 - 3:30pm

Registration: Google Forms

** Please note that in-person registration is now closed due to room capacity. Virtual registration is still open. Thank you!

Presented by CIPS

Adam Chapnick and Asa McKercher’s latest book Canada First, not Canada Alone: A History …

Economic Security Cooperation in Canada-U.S. Relations: Moving from Tension to Teamwork

February 3, 2025 - 5:30pm

Presented by CIPS, the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy, the Hyman Soloway Chair on Business and Trade Law & the Telfer School of Management

Tensions are high in U.S.-Canada relations. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to …

Modi’s Operandi: Effect of Ethnonationalism on Indian Civil-Military Relations

January 28, 2025 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Theory Network (ITN)

How does ethnonationalism affect the military? The principal dilemma of civil-military relations is balancing between a military strong enough to protect the state and obedient enough to use its strength only …

Motivations Behind Donor Funding Refusal: Towards a Typology of Principled Refusal

January 16, 2025 - 12:00pm

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

NGOs are perceived as organisations that are always seeking funding. However, there are many instances where donations are refused by NGOs. This counter-intuitive decision, given the often grave humanitarian needs, …

Review of the Arctic 2024

December 13, 2024 - 9:30am

Presented by CIPS and OPSA (Observatory on Politics and Security in the Arctic)

This online conference will bring together experts on the Arctic region to analyze the trends that have animated the Arctic region over the past year. Published since …

Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land

December 6, 2024 - 9:00am

Presented by CIPS

This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for the space and anyone inside it.

It documents the short history of Rukban, an …

NATO’s Eastern Flank: Challenges and Implications in the Context of the Ukraine War

December 5, 2024 - 9:00am

Watch the keynote address by William C. Wohlforth here:

Presented by CIPS, UQAM and MINDS

The conference, which will bring together leading academics and practitioners, will focus on some of the most pressing challenges facing Canada and its NATO allies …

Karl Polanyi and Critical IPE: Great Transformations, the State and the Importance of Controlling the ‘Rate of Change’

December 3, 2024 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

The work of Karl Polanyi has figured prominently over the past two decades in critical IPE scholarship that attempts to understand the changing foundations of the world economy. Especially important …

End of Immunity: Accountability for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity

December 2, 2024 - 5:00pm

Rethinking Cameroon’s Humanitarian Crisis, State Fragility & Gender Inequalities

November 29, 2024 - 1:00pm

Presented by CIPS and the Gender, Peace and Development Research Network (previously the FSRN)

Cameroon is grappling with multiple internal conflicts and humanitarian crises while also being encircled by fragile states. It shares borders with Nigeria, Chad, the Central African …

Book Talk – A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War

November 28, 2024 - 10:00am

Presented by the Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the University of Ottawa, the Department of History and CIPS

The post-World War II period is typically seen as a time of stark division, an epochal global conflict between the …

Territorial Operators: Companies and the Co-construction of Mining Communities

November 14, 2024 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

Companies have often been portrayed as “deterritorializing actors” that threaten and undermine alternative and subaltern visions of territory promoted by civil society organizations. However, the relationship between civil society, companies …

Book Talk – “Lloyd Axworthy: My Life in Politics”

November 11, 2024 - 4:00pm

Presented by CIPS, the International Commission of Jurists – Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the Professional Development Institute at the University of Ottawa, and the International Law Group of the Law Faculty at the University of Ottawa

You are …

Security Options for a Troubled World

October 25, 2024 - 9:00am

Videos of all of the panels are available in this playlist.

Read the full Conference Report here

Presented by the Canadian Pugwash Group (CPG) and the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS)

The Canadian Pugwash Group and the Centre for …

The Arctic and the East-West Nuclear Confrontation

October 24, 2024 - 4:00pm

Read the related Policy Brief here.

Presented by Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Centre for International Policy Studies

Recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award from Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention: Ernie Regehr

Ernie Regehr will deliver …

Book Launch – China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets

October 8, 2024 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

In China’s Vulnerability Paradox, Pascale Massot unveils market power dynamics between Chinese commodity market actors and global producers. These asymmetries help explain China’s international behaviour, as well as the …

Book Talk – The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations

October 7, 2024 - 2:30pm

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

The War for Chinese Talent in America documents China’s ‘no-holdsbarred’ effort to access U.S. technology and America’s vigorous counterattack and its efforts to disrupt the transfer of U.S. technology to …

Book Launch – The Twelfth of February: Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan

October 2, 2024 - 4:00pm

Presented by the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS), CIPS, and the Fragile States Research Network (FSRN)

The Twelfth of February assesses how women’s organizations work to resist violent extremism and makes the connection between gender inequality and …

The Other “I” in Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Taiwan-Canada Dialogue on Indigenous Engagement

October 1, 2024 - 5:30pm

Registration: Eventbrite

The Canadian International Council, National Capital Branch, in collaboration with the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Canada, uOttawa Chair of Taiwan Studies, and the Centre for International Policy Studies invite you to join us at the Faculty …

Conference on Afghanistan: Changing the Approach and Reversing the Trajectory

September 18, 2024 - 9:00am

Presented by CIPS and the Embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 was a tragic turning point in Afghanistan’s recent history, plunging the country into a dark trajectory and a multifaceted crisis with devastating …

The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi

September 6, 2024 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Theory Network (ITN)

T.V. Paul will join us for a discussion of his book The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi.

Book abstract:

Along with the meteoric …

Book Launch – World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order

September 5, 2024 - 1:00pm

Registration: Google Forms

Presented by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), CIPS and the International Theory Network (ITN)

The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows …