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Monday, May 22, 2017

Thomas Juneau outlines Trudeau’s successful Trump strategy…. for now

Few countries have more to lose economically from a hostile Donald Trump administration than Canada. The country’s prosperity is largely dependent on privileged access to the U.S. market: About 75 percent of Canadian exports are sold in the United States, representing one-third of Canada’s GDP and providing for one-fifth of Canadian jobs.... More

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Secretary of Defense Mattis outlines US Defense Policy vis-à-vis ISIS

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Mattis, General Dunford and Special Envoy McGurk on the Campaign to Defeat ISIS in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph F. Dunford; Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic... More

Friday, May 19, 2017

Stephanie Carvin outlines consequences for allies when Trump shares info with Russia

United States President Donald Trump may have given highly classified, sensitive information about the Islamic State to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Washington last week. However, even while revelations unfold and are yet to be confirmed, the story itself — first published by the Washington Post — raises serious... More

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Andrea Charron and Jim Fergusson discuss the future of NORAD

While most attention on NORAD and North American defence cooperation is focused on the modernization of the North Warning System (NWS), significant developments have occurred that suggest modernization will be accompanied by significant evolutionary changes to the Command. The new threat environment, centered upon Russian behaviour in Crimea,... More

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Thomas Juneau outlines 5 must “knows” about the elections in Iran

Iranians are going to the polls to elect a president this Friday. To some extent, it does not matter who wins: The Iranian president is subordinate to the Supreme Leader, who has final say on all important matters of state. As such, we should not expect significant changes in Iran’s foreign and domestic policies... More

Friday, May 12, 2017

Val Percival outlines what a real feminist foreign policy looks like

Canada has been working to empower women globally for decades — why aren’t we making more progress? As Valerie Percival writes, efforts to build gender equitable societies must work on both the bricks (laws, formal institutions and services) and the mortar (societies’ beliefs around... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Andrea Charron presents part 1 on Canada, the Arctic and the US. Part 2 focuses on Russia.

Given a new US President and an aggressive Russia what might these factors portend for Canada and the Arctic especially given geopolitical events elsewhere?  This 2 part blog, for which I am grateful to Heather Exner-Pirot, Jim Fergusson, Ted McDorman, and Joël Plouffe for their invaluable input, will first look at the relationship between... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

CSIS releases its report: What comes after Daesh/ISIS?

The situation in Iraq leaves little room for optimism. It is true that some genuine, albeit slow, progress has been  made towards retakingMosul, but Daesh’s effective, determined defence of the city has made the offensive difficult and forced the Iraqi government to deploy units from the other provinces of the country. This has undermined... More

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Stephen Saideman unpacks the “Sajjan Affair”

Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has gotten into hot water for stating that he was the architect for a major effort, Operation Medusa,* in Afghanistan in 2006. Whether he was or was not (probably not), this is problematic to those soldiers who serve because he is seen as taking credit for what was a multi-person... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Chris Burn calculates growing cost of maintaining the Dempster Highway

Chris Burn at Carleton University is tracking the growing cost of maintaining Yukon’s Dempster Highway as warmer weather brings more landslides, washouts and... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Elliot Tepper Comments on Trump and the Middle East

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Elliot Tepper from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs provides cogent... More

Friday, April 28, 2017

Barak Barfi argues why Trump needs more than 100 days on Syria

When Yitzhak Rabin met with President Gerald Ford on his first visit to Washington as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1974, he sought to cash in on Ford’s earlier promise to him that he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if he ever became president. Ford remembered the vow he made as... More

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