Baird Wins Over a Skeptic
Stephanie Carvin is almost sold on an Office of Religious Freedom, but still has a few questions outstanding.
Stephanie Carvin is almost sold on an Office of Religious Freedom, but still has a few questions outstanding.
Do We Need a Foreign Policy Review? Afraid So…
Jennifer Welsh challenges Derek Burney and Fen Osler Hampson.
Jennifer Welsh challenges Derek Burney and Fen Osler Hampson.
The New Humanitarians
A weeklong series with the Globe and Mail profiling four big thinkers on the future of aid.
A weeklong series with the Globe and Mail profiling four big thinkers on the future of aid.
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If the new global order is regional, then Canada needs a continental vision, argues Robert Pastor.
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CIDA is paying private contractors to build houses in Haiti. Dr. Samantha Nutt elaborates on her Globe op-ed.
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Why is CIDA paying mining companies $6.7 million? Ian Smillie describes the corporatization of aid.
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Roundtable
Do We Need a Foreign Policy Review? Afraid So…
A number of commentators, including former Canadian ambassador to Washington Derek Burney and Carleton University professor Fen Osler Hampson, have recently lamented the Harper government’s decision to engage in a review of the country’s foreign policy – with the end result likely to be a new “Foreign Policy Plan.” These critics call on Canada to focus on “doing” foreign policy, rather than “talking” about it, particularly if that talking involves any mention of Canadian values. Call me a sucker for punishment, but I believe we ...More
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The Think Tank
Baird Wins Over a Skeptic
In a passionate and direct speech to London’s Commonwealth Society on Jan. 23, Foreign Minister John Baird made it clear that human rights will be a centrepiece of the Harper government’s foreign-policy agenda. Although nothing in the speech was particularly new (the establishment of an Office for Religious Freedom was a campaign promise and Baird passionately defended LGBT rights at the Commonwealth in November of last year), Baird’s address was a summary of the approach he and the Conservatives are developing ...More
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Readings
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At Davos, the region is king. Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer explains why the new economic order is a regional one - and why it won't solve climate change.
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Somalia is known for piracy and civil war. Are things about to change? It’s been 17 years, but the UN is back in Mogadishu.
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Anti-Canadianism is becoming the new anti-Americanism: Slate's assessment of Canada's moves on tar sands and Kyoto.
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The Global Journal rates the top 100 best NGOs. The winner? The Wikimedia Foundation.
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Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is about to establish an Office of Religious Freedom. The minister explains why.
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A Pacific nation? Not so, argue Derek Burney and Fen Hampson in their denunciation of yet another foreign policy review.
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Dispatch
The Global Village, Circa 2012
2011 marked the 50th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and Marshall McLuhan’s centennial. It was also the year in which the city eclipsed the state as the unit of international relations. Tahrir Square, Tunis, Hong Kong, Sau Paulo, Palo Alto – these were the loci of global change. Though one was an urbanist and the other a philosopher, Jacobs and McLuhan both predicted this shift. Jacobs’ urban writings and grassroots activism on behalf of the city are well documented, but McLuhan, too, took ...More
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Events
Lessons Learned: Finding Your First Job OverseasDate : February 2, 2012
Mass Mobilization for Human Rights: Getting it RightDate : February 8, 2012
The Arab Spring: Any Hope Left?Date : February 13, 2012
Presidential Elections, TurkmenistanDate : February 12, 2012
World Day of Social JusticeDate : February 20, 2012
12th Special Session of the UNEP Governing CouncilDate : February 20, 2012
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