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When there’s no peace to keep
In September, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre announced it had secured $3.95 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International...
Trading partners – Why are bilateral deals trumping multilateral pacts?
The last twenty years have been marked by the extensive proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. The United States...
Broadsword or rapier? Canadian Forces involvement in 21st century coalition operations
In July 2007 the Canadian Defence Academy/Canadian Forces Leadership Institute was tasked by the Strategic Joint Staff to determine the...
Retooling Canada’s Cuba policy for the post-Castro era
Fidel Castro, 81, officially stepped down as president of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers in February 2008. He remains...
Changing the game: The Chinese approach to African development
While Canada, the United States and China are taking sharply different approaches to Africa, they all share something in common:...
Comprehensive START for failing states
To intervene or not to intervene? That has been the perplexing question humbling governments for the past two decades. There...
Absent in Africa
The prime minister’s recent trip to Uganda and Tanzania aside, Africa has not registered high on the government’s agenda. Though...
AFRICA-STAN: Afghanistan’s lessons for a whole-of-Canada Africa strategy
What Canada and other NATO countries have experienced in Afghanistan has shaken previously established approaches to fragile states, including departmental...
The China conundrum: To engage or contain?
China is central to the new reality of the Pacific; a profoundly poor country yet quite capable of holding us...
Southward Bound: Harper shifts focus in hemisphere
Changes of direction in Canadian foreign policy are not usually signalled by leaks to the press, especially not under the...