John Baird: The Next Minister of National Defence?
I don’t normally follow Canadian politics closely enough to play the parlour game of predicting the winners and losers of the next...
Afghanistan: War Without Victory | Interview on TVO
Panel discussion on TVO The Agenda "Canada stepped into Afghanistan in 2001. Almost 11 years later, what was accomplished, and what are...
Going Along to Get Along? Canada Soft-Pedals Russia’s Role in Syria
Why is Canada giving Russia an easy ride on Syria? Moscow has been running diplomatic interference for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
Stronger Diplomatic Action?
In the aftermath of the terrible murder of over 100 people in Houla, Syria, including dozens of children, Canada’s foreign minister John...
Foreign Policy Is Not Just Defence
I welcome the opportunity to kick off this series on the future of the Canadian Forces (CF), not least because the series invites a...
The New Canada: Fomenting Fear at Home and Abroad
Why base policy on facts and evidence when you can exploit fear instead? It doesn’t take a psychologist to know that fear is a much more...
Talking Tough on Iran
Ottawa Citizen Is Prime Minister Stephen Harper preparing the Canadian public for a possible conflict with Iran? In two recent...
After the Fall of Gadhafi
Globe & Mail If the situation in Libya seems messy, just wait until the war ends. Transitions to democracy can be nasty, brutish and...
Canada and the UN Security Council
Panel discussion on CPAC Watch here. "The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa, organized a...
After Afghanistan
TVO The Agenda "What is Canada's military going to do after the 2011 scheduled end to the Afghanistan combat mission? What do you think...
Assessing Afghanistan
TVO The Agenda "Have we made a difference, and was it worth it?"
Minority Governments Are Hobbling Canadian Foreign Policy
Globe and Mail Former diplomat Robert Fowler was right to upbraid both the Conservatives and Liberals on Sunday for their small-minded...
Don't Pull Out Every Soldier
Ottawa Citizen Canada can make a huge difference by leaving a small contingent of military trainers in Afghanistan after the 2011...
Rethinking Canada's International Priorities
Co-edited with Fen Osler Hampson, CIPS-NPSIA Report, 2010. Essays.
The Final Chapter of Our Afghan Mission
Globe & Mail Canada's military mission in Afghanistan is slated to end in 2011, but it is far from over. Contrary to reports that Canada...
