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Ottawa’s Embrace of Twitter Diplomacy Will Fail Without Greater Openness

Globe and Mail After years of sitting on the sidelines, Canada finally seems to be taking digital diplomacy seriously. Foreign Minister...

Kabul’s Restaurant Attack Hurt by Driving Afghans, Foreigners Further Apart

Globe and Mail Since news broke of Friday’s horrific suicide attack on the largely foreign clientele of a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul,...

Baird’s tough talk on human rights rings hollow in Bahrain

Globe and Mail Canada’s “principled” foreign policy keeps running into problems in Bahrain, the Gulf monarchy that violently suppressed...

There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade

The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets...

Missing in Action: What Happened to Canada’s Foreign Policy?

CIPS & CIC blogs In July 2011, shortly after Canadian voters handed the Conservatives a majority government, Prime Minister Stephen...

A Response to Deepak Ohbrai on Digital Diplomacy

I am pleased that Deepak Ohbrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has responded to my recent writing on...

Canada Needs More Digital Diplomats

Ottawa Citizen The practice of international diplomacy is undergoing a revolution. As activists, private and public organizations,...

Baird’s East Jerusalem scandal shows Canada has a Mideast dishonesty gap

Globe and Mail Why is Foreign Minister John Baird misrepresenting Canada’s policies on the Mideast? Last week, Mr. Baird met with...

Baird's Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada's Inconsistency

Globe & Mail The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking...

CIDA Merger is Fine, But Fundamental Questions of Policy Remain Unresolved

Globe & Mail Thursday’s announcement that the Canadian International Development Agency will be folded into the Department of Foreign...

Staying out of Iraq was said to hurt Canada’s standing. It didn’t

Globe and Mail In the weeks leading up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a number of prominent Canadian commentators and...

A Not-So-New Foreign Policy Plan

The Harper government’s “secret” foreign policy plan, revealed by the CBC today, offers few surprises. Its emphasis on pursuing economic...

John Baird: The Next Minister of National Defence?

I don’t normally follow Canadian politics closely enough to play the parlour game of predicting the winners and losers of the next...

Is Corruption the Cost of Saving Afghanistan?

Globe & Mail It was fitting that last weekend’s international donors’ conference on Afghanistan took place in Tokyo: The event...

Don’t Blame Obama for ‘Losing’ Canada

Derek Burney and Fen Osler Hampson have well-deserved reputations as level-headed observers of Canada-U.S. relations. How, then, did they...

Roland Paris