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Can Canada Win a UN Security Council Seat?
- June 15, 2020
On June 17, 2020, Canada will seek election to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as one of the ten non-permanent members. If successful, Canada will serve as one of five countries elected this year for a two-year term ending …
By Caroline Dunton
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Disunited Democracies Cannot Face the Challenge of China
- June 7, 2020
The United States and its allies must agree on an approach to China with a clarity of purpose, resolve, and restraint. Because the China challenge will only grow over time.

After China violated Hong Kong’s legislative autonomy by imposing a …
By Roland Paris
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Constructing the Liberal Enemy: The International Political Sociology of the New Right
- 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 …
By Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Alexandra Gheciu, Karin Narita, Srdjan Vucetic, and Michael C. Williams
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Meet NATO’s New Champion: President Donald Trump
- December 11, 2019
After spending years belittling and undermining the western world’s principal military alliance, during his recent trip to London to celebrate the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) 70th birthday, President Trump sounded a different tune. Instead of continuing his attack on …
By Alexandra Gheciu
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Can Canada Win a UN Security Council Seat?