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...
Canada Needs to Reconnect with its Diplomatic Tradition | CPAC video
The Harper government’s neglect of diplomacy has resulted in a largely ineffective foreign policy that has not served Canada’s interests,...
NATO Needs to Get its House in Order to Face a More Dangerous World
Globe & Mail Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are grappling with big decisions as they prepare for their major annual...
Global Military Spending by Region
CIPS Blog In previous posts, I presented charts illustrating the recent decline in Canadian military spending as a percentage of GDP,...
Canadian Military Spending as a Percent of GDP
This chart might come as a surprise to some Canadians. Canada’s defence spending as a percentage of GDP has decreased since 2009 and is...
Harper’s Heroic Ukraine Message Does Not Reflect Reality
Globe & Mail As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Europe for the G7 summit and anniversary of D-Day, the gap between Canada’s...
Paris and Owen: Imagining A More Ambitious Canada
Ottawa Citizen The world has undergone enormous changes since Ottawa last conducted a foreign policy review nearly a decade ago: the...
Is Canada Pulling Its Weight in NATO?
When NATO’s military commander, General Philip Breedlove, visited Ottawa this week, he noted that Canada was one of the first countries...
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...