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)
Baird’s East Jerusalem scandal shows Canada has a Mideast dishonesty gap
Globe and Mail Why is Foreign Minister John Baird misrepresenting Canada’s policies on the Mideast? Last week, Mr. Baird met with...
Baird's Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada's Inconsistency
Globe & Mail The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking...
CIDA Merger is Fine, But Fundamental Questions of Policy Remain Unresolved
Globe & Mail Thursday’s announcement that the Canadian International Development Agency will be folded into the Department of Foreign...
Staying out of Iraq was said to hurt Canada’s standing. It didn’t
Globe and Mail In the weeks leading up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a number of prominent Canadian commentators and...
A Not-So-New Foreign Policy Plan
The Harper government’s “secret” foreign policy plan, revealed by the CBC today, offers few surprises. Its emphasis on pursuing economic...