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Mapping Out a North Korean Peace Process
- December 11, 2017
By John Gruetzner

There are ultimately four critical components to a peace process:

The first component is to submit and then finalize a draft of a document acceptable to the original signatories that converts the armistice agreement signed on 27 …
By CIPS
Asia, International Security, Peacekeeping, United Nations, USA
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Canada Doubling Down on Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
- December 11, 2017
By John Gruetzner

Canada has announced that it is co-hosting a 16-nation summit with the United States early next year to explore options to engage North Korea. Prime Minister Trudeau is also likely to meet this month with US Secretary …
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Asia, International Security, Peacekeeping, United Nations, USA
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China as #1: Where Might it Lead the World?
- November 11, 2017
It slowly crept up on us. But in a carefully choreographed 19^th Party Congress in late October, President Xi Jinping was enthroned before several thousand elite party loyalists as “absolute monarch,” along with a multi-layered, hand-picked collection of respectful …
By John Sinclair
Canadian Foreign Policy, China, International Trade, USA
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All the President’s Friends: Adventures in “Nambia”
- September 24, 2017
Every year, I begin my African Politics classes by giving the students a map of Africa with the state borders drawn, but their names missing. Filling in the blanks is a humbling exercise, and most manage only a handful: South …
By Rita Abrahamsen
Africa, United Nations, USA
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Canada Needs a Wait-and-See Approach on Afghanistan
- September 1, 2017
By Lindsay Rodman

Will US President Donald Trump’s new plan for Afghanistan pull Canada back into a war that many deem a “lost cause”? Mr. Trump explicitly invited other nations to contribute in support of his new plan. Although Prime …
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Canadian Foreign Policy, International Security, USA
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The US Has Much to Gain in Embracing Freeland’s Free-Trade Approach
- August 16, 2017
On 14 August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland outlined Canada’s objectives for renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement in view of the negotiations that began on 16 August.

Freeland was optimistic about the real possibility of modernizing NAFTA in a …
By Patrick Leblond
Canadian Foreign Policy, International Trade, USA
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Why NAFTA’s Chapter 19 is Worth Fighting For
- July 29, 2017
Canada has reportedly drawn a “red line” over Chapter 19 as the US calls for NAFTA renegotiations. That’s a good thing.

Even before the negotiations to revise and modernize NAFTA begin on 16 August, a red line has been drawn …
By Patrick Leblond
Economy, International Trade, USA
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US Demands Won’t Lead to the NAFTA of Our Nightmares
- July 22, 2017
On July 17, the United States Trade Representative Office published the Trump administration’s detailed objectives for renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about NAFTA in the past, the objectives document’s overall tone is very …
By Patrick Leblond
Economy, International Trade, USA
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A New G-20 for a Leaderless World
- July 14, 2017
The US retreat from leadership of liberal multilateralism could open a policy space for new members within a reformed G-20.

The 2017 G-20 summit, normally dull and technical, emerges as a key transition point in global power relations. G-20 …
By John Sinclair
Canadian Foreign Policy, Europe, Russia, USA
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After Abdication
- July 9, 2017
By Peter Marcus Kristensen

University of Copenhagen

American observers of international affairs are currently enmeshed in a debate on the uncertain future of the “US-led liberal international order.” This is, of course, spurred by the election of President Trump and …
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China, USA
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NATO: A Liberal Alliance in an Increasingly Illiberal World?
- July 9, 2017
By Alexandra Gheciu

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa

In recent weeks, we have witnessed a number of developments designed to signal NATO’s persistent — arguably reinvigorated — role as the key security institution of the …
By Alexandra Gheciu
International Security, Russia, USA
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Liberal Interventionism: The Crisis Within
- July 9, 2017
By Katja Lindskov Jacobsen

Center for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen

Liberal interventionism today not only responds to crises in countries experiencing violent conflicts, distress, and disaster. It also responds to a crisis within. This crisis is not simply about …
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Democracy, United Nations, USA
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