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...
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...
