Transition Memos Show Foreign Ministry Is Doing Its Job
CIPS Blog A series of foreign ministry memos, leaked to the media in recent days, offer an unflattering assessment of Canada’s declining...
Canada’s Military Spending Is Now Less than Half of NATO’s Target
CIPS Blog Last year I blogged about the decline in Canadian military spending as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The most...
A Foreign Policy for the Future
CIPS Blog In the March issue of the Literary Review of Canada, I write about the future of Canada’s foreign policy in an open letter to...
Time to Make Ourselves Useful: An Open Letter to the 2015 Federal Election Winner
Literary Review of Canada, March 2015
Canadian Mission Creep in Iraq? A CIPS Debate – Part 1
CIPS Blog For Parts 2 and 3 of this CIPS debate, see the posts by Thomas Juneau and Philippe Lagassé. Published in the Globe and...
Has Canada Drifted into a Combat Mission in Iraq?
Globe and Mail We recently learned that Canadian troops in Iraq are spending about 20 per cent of their effort close to, or right at,...
Evolution or Escalation? Canada’s Military Operation in Iraq
CIPS Blog In a new CIPS policy brief on Canada’s war in Iraq, Roland Paris addresses the following questions: Is Canada engaged in...
Evolution or Escalation? Canada's Military Mission in Iraq
Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, Policy Brief no. 26 (January 2015).
The Greatest Risk to UN Peace Operations
CIPS Blog The greatest risk to United Nations peace operations is not operational failure, but the growing divergence of opinion among...
Is It Possible to Meet the ‘Responsibility to Protect’?
Washington Post, Monkey Cage These are difficult days for defenders of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which holds that...
Mistral Misunderstandings
CIPS Blog Have you seen the reports that Canada is thinking about purchasing one or both of the Mistral-class warships that France has...
Canada’s Decade of Diplomatic Darkness
Globe and Mail When Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, observers should not expect...
Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria
CIPS Blog President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday marks the third major shift in United States counterterrorism strategy since...
Peacekeeping Works Better Than You May Think
CIPS and CIC blogs Does peacekeeping work? Janice Stein (University of Toronto) and I had a lively exchange on this subject on the CBC...
Sanctions Against Russia | Interview on CBC radio
CBC Radio Roland Paris, director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, discusses the sanctions...