Where’s the Diplomatic Element in Canada’s Anti-ISIS Strategy?
While Monday’s announcement to withdraw Canada’s CF-18s is no surprise, Global Affairs missed an opportunity by leaving its…
Five Things I learned about Twitter During the Crisis in Ukraine
For the last month and a half I have been following the Ukraine crisis on my Twitter account.…
Justin Trudeau’s First Real Test
The recent attacks in Paris and the bombing of Russian Flight 321 over Egypt lay bare the obvious…
4 ways to repair the damage to our foreign policy
Follow @iAffairsCanada Take it back and own it With all the focus on John Baird’s departure many…
Can Europe’s new Iron Lady do it?
The ingredients were all there for a rapid escalation in the crisis. Bloody battles in the Debaltseve region, a…
More execution than revolution
By David Carment and Joseph Landry: In a series of recent studies, CIGI fellow and Globe and…
Selling Ukraine’s Fragile Peace with a Silent War
The UN mission to Ukraine recently announced that 4300 people have been killed since the war started in…
John Baird’s contradictory digital diplomacy
For Foreign Minister John Baird, the timing of the revelations that Industry Canada tweets must follow a rigid…
Preventing Conflict: From Macedonia to Crimea and Back Again
What do Macedonia in 1992, Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011 and…
The Future of NATO
In this paper I examine the Future of NATO as it contemplates further expansion eastward. I evaluate the…