Huawei or Our Way?: Fissures in the Five Eyes Alliance in the Face of a Rising China
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- October 16, 2020
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Huawei or Our Way?: Fissures in the Five Eyes Alliance in the Face of a Rising China
- October 16, 2020
After some wrangling, the Five Eyes member states have arrived at a common position on the use of Huawei technology in critical infrastructure. But the Huawei snafu is likely just the first of many challenges to alliance solidarity as an expansionist …
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UK and Canada Find New Strength in an Old Alliance
- October 15, 2020
Foreign policy watchers hailing a burgeoning ‘mini-alliance’ between Canada and the UK may not appear to be highlighting anything new, given such a friendship has existed since Canada came into existence and is one of the oldest bilateral partnerships in …
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What’s beyond the Five Eyes? Britain’s European Trajectory
- October 13, 2020
Even before Brexit, Britain was often portrayed as reluctant to fully engage with European affairs. One potential reason for this, particularly when it comes to the matters of defence and intelligence, is Britain’s close relationship with the US and its …
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Claims for Reparations, Politics and COVID-19
- July 1, 2020
Recent weeks have witnessed growing international concerns over China’s role in the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic. While Australia and Germany ask for an international investigation of what went wrong, the United States has accused China of its failure to …
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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 …
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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 …
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Boris Johnson Goes to China – via Ireland
- October 5, 2019
Boris Johnson’s ‘final offer’ to the EU for a Brexit deal may be effectively dead on arrival, but even if so, does it make a future united Ireland more likely?
Did anyone notice Boris Johnson’s Nixon-in-China move the other …
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Nationalist Internationalists? The Strange Paradoxes of the Global Right
- September 9, 2019
By Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Alexandra Gheciu, Srdjan Vucetic and Michael C. Williams
The first step toward meeting the challenge of the Radical Right is to understand their ideas, strategies, and organisations.
For nearly three years, we have been researching …
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Backwards, March! Brexit, CANZUK, and the Legacy of Empire
- January 17, 2019
By Duncan Bell and Srdjan Vucetic
It was coined in the 1950s, but the term CANZUK — a union (or alliance or pact) of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — has been repurposed in the wake of …
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UK Rendition and Torture: Lessons for Canada
- July 18, 2018
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has produced two reports on collusion in rendition (the legal term for shipping someone from one jurisdiction to another) and torture operations in the US-led War on Terror. They remind us in blunt …
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Russian Expulsions: “If there was ever a time for diplomacy, this is it”
- April 5, 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman
About 50 years ago, Swedish writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo created addictive detective stories rooted in sociology. The reader knew who was murdered and often learned early on who did it. The mystery to be solved …
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The West Gets Tough on Russia. What’s Next?
- March 29, 2018
Canada has now joined an international effort to punish the Russians for their role in the use of a nerve agent to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England.
Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland …
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