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).
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...
Are Canadians Still Liberal Internationalists? Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in the Harper Era
International Journal 69:3 (September 2014), pp. 274-307.
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,...
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...
The Truth About Afghanistan
Policy Options (March-April 2014), pp. 26-33
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...
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...
The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why is Canada Lagging Behind?
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Policy Paper (June 2013)