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A focal point for scholarship and debate on international affairs in Canada Created in 2007, the Centre for International Policy Studies is jointly funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Office of the Vice President-Research at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
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He was a felon with multiple criminal convictions, and they voted for him anyway. He prompted an angry mob to attack the Capitol and was described by his former Chief of Staff as having “fascist tendencies”, but ..read more
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At first glance outer space security appears to command universal support at the UN General Assembly. Each year since 1981 the General Assembly adopts a resolution with near universal support on the “Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space ..read more
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2d ago
Just over a century ago, Ze’ev Jabotinski wrote two short articles which examined how the Arab population of Palestine would react to the creation of a Jewish majority there. Jabotinski led a branch of the Zionist movement, the Revisionists, who ..read more
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1w ago
“Putin’s Russia will remain one of the most serious security threats. Not only for Europe, but also for the world order. Its goal remains the permanent destruction of the European security architecture.” These words came from Polish Foreign Minister Radek ..read more
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3w ago
Poland was one of the countries warning the Western world about growing Russian imperialism. They supported the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004, Georgia in 2008 during Russia’s attack, and later Ukraine again in 2014 during the annexation of Crimea ..read more
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Five years ago, Cameroon organized a major national dialogue to resolve the country’s Anglophone crisis – an armed conflict that killed hundreds, displaced thousands, involved sexual violence against women, and forced many children to leave school. The ..read more
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3w ago
The United Nations efforts to mobilize regional and global support for a concerted international approach to the crisis in Afghanistan face significant challenges. A constellation of factors situated at the domestic, regional and global levels of analysis severely shrink the ..read more
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Israel’s recent attack on Iran was a militarily impressive feat. While much about the mission will remain secret for many years, some information is trickling out which permits an evaluation of what was accomplished, how it was done and, most ..read more
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As inflation finally drops below 2 per cent all eyes are on the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate decision on Wednesday, with markets predicting a half-percentage drop. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve finally started bringing rates down in September ..read more
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Time is running out for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Donor governments, including Canada, have increasingly turned to blended finance—using public money to leverage private sector investments—to fill the financing gap and meet the SDGs.
While blended ..read more