Book Release – Exiting the Fragility Trap Rethinking Our Approach to the World’s Most Fragile States
State fragility is a much-debated yet underinvestigated concept in the development and international
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Turkey and the S-400: Reconciling Strategic Diversification with Reliance on NATO?
Turkey’s purchase—and now receipt—of the S-400 missile defence system raises myriad questions of inte
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Parties competing over values, not substance, in foreign policy platforms
In the 2015 federal election, Justin Trudeau campaigned on a foreign policy vision that differed
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Canada’s 2017 Defence Policy: A Triple Boost for Canadian Defence Intelligence
Intelligence matters, no matter the era. A state which in peace or times of crisis tends to save
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Canada’s historic $1.4billion annual commitment to women and girls’ health
On June 4th, at the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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A Failure of Compellence: Why the US-Iran Situation Has Escalated
During the past few weeks, the news has been dominated with stories about the sharp escalation in
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CIFP Policy Proposal – 2019 Ukraine Commission On Landmine And Other Explosives Alert, Notify, Educate, Remove
Executive Summary Too often lost amidst the headlines of a conflict are the people, communities,
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Why We Believed North Korea Executed Its Nuclear Negotiators
Just when we thought we had moved past the failed US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi back in F
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Reviving Multi-Vector Foreign Policy? Armenia’s First-Ever Abstention from Georgia’s IDP Resolution
On June 4, the UN General Assembly again adopted Georgia’s annual resolution on the right of return f
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CIFP 2019 Conflict Risk Assessment – Uighurs in China
Executive Summary The Uighurs in China remain under threat of assimilation, repression and
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