• Transatlantic Free Trade: Not a Novel Idea at All

    • December 19, 2013

    The benefits of the Conservative government’s recently signed trade deal with the European Union are going to be unknown for some time. It will take an army of economists, lawyers and political scientists to assess the pros and cons of …

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  • Shining Light on Harper’s Darkling Mideast Outlook

    • December 12, 2013

    When a private citizen holds a world view filled with forces of light and darkness, with heroes and villains and mystical bonds tying fates together, that’s generally her own business. When that person is the Prime Minister of Canada, however, …

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  • Stephen Harper and a ‘Rising’ Canada

    • December 12, 2013

    By Colin Robertson, Vice President, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute

    Stephen Harper aims to position Canada as a ‘rising power’. While protecting our privileged access to the USA, Canada under Harper’s leadership actively seeks new markets for our goods …

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  • Baird’s Tough Talk on Human Rights Rings Hollow in Bahrain

    • December 10, 2013

    Canada’s “principled” foreign policy keeps running into problems in Bahrain, the Gulf monarchy that violently suppressed pro-democracy protests in 2011.

    When Foreign Minister John Baird visited the country in April, he made no public comment about Bahrain’s repressive practices, including …

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  • Is Canada a Responsible Global Partner?

    • December 4, 2013

    In anticipation of the December 5th book launch of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, CIPS posed the following question to former Prime Minister Paul Martin (who will be speaking at the event): “What does the recently announced DFATD

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  • How Canada Goes to War

    • December 3, 2013

    by Philippe Lagassé

    Canada’s military training mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. When the Canadian Forces are next sent overseas, members of Parliament will likely vote on the mission. The Conservative government has made it a point to consult …

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