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Cautious relations: Prudence required for military partnerships
Many Canadians consider Latin America to be inaccessible, culturally distant, and of little political or economic interest. That view was...
Understanding the neighbourhood: Emerging trends and Canada’s challenge
In 2007 the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, in the context of a much publicized but relatively brief trip to...
Contributing to a multidimensional security matrix
Canadians have not always thought of the Americas when they consider their place internationally. But if we consider where Canada’s...
Criminalizing terror from the sea
A landmark multinational counterterrorism treaty you’ve likely never heard of is poised to emerge from relative obscurity later this year...
Measuring the effects of soft power
Soft power, the ability to indirectly influence others’ behavior without resorting to force, is now omnipresent in academic debates and...
A security shift and the hemispheric rift
As 2001 began, and a new American administration prepared to take up office in the White House, there was much...
Swords into ploughshares: A new kind of peace process
“Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is...
The return of diplomacy: A vital investment for an effective voice
Diplomacy is back. The short era of a single superpower is passing into history, replaced by a multi-power world in...
Diplomatic deficit: Are we squandering Canada’s currency?
“The findings are…sobering in that they portray a Canada whose international performance and…reputation have fallen over the last 15 years…and...
Canadian concerns in the Obama era:Relations with new U.S. president require new perspectives
Chicago resident and mother Peggy Joseph reacted to the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ 44th president with...