Conservatives opt for Twitter diplomacy in the Gaza conflict
Quoted in: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/globe-politics-insider/conservatives-opt-for-twitter-diplomacy-in-the-gaza-confli...
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...
Collective Defence and Common Security: Twin Pillars of the Atlantic Alliance
Group of Policy Experts Report to the NATO Secretary-General, June 2014
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...

