A diminished Canada at home and abroad

Guerrilla Diplomacy: In The News

• July 17, 2014:
  Canada, NATO and the new Cold War
  CPAC video
  Panel discussion at  CDFAI conference 23 June 2014 featuring Ferry de Kerckhove, Robert Fowler, Daryl Copeland and George Macdonald.
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• July 2, 2014:
  One hundred years on, the Great War still has lessons for Canada
  Embassy
  If we are to more successfully broach the 21st century’s complex suite of threats and challenges, there is very much to be done.
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• June 24, 2014:
  Blowback: Iraq and the law of unintended consequences
  iPolitics
  The fallout from the disastrous US-led  invasion and occupation continues, and the ironies are striking.
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• June 7, 2014:
  Negotiate with terrorists?
  CIC Rapid Response
  Relative to the international policy alternatives,  as a point of departure genuine dialogue is vastly preferable.
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• May 17, 2014:
  Diplomacy in a Digital Age
  2014 Vienna Seminar, May 13-14
  International Peace Institute President Terje Rød-Larsen chaired a panel discussion with Daryl Copeland, Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and James Rubin, Visiting Scholar at the Rothermere American Institute. Includes session videos.
  Link
• May 9, 2014:
  Is Ukraine a crisis, or a dangerous distraction?
  iPolitics
  Amidst fears of widening conflict and a new Cold War, at the level of world order these events seem more about continuity than change, and that will be costly
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• February 5, 2014:
  Can Obama move off ‘permanent war footing’?
  Embassy
  It will be a very tall order for  Obama to deliver on the sweeping foreign policy commitments contained in his State of the Union address
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• January 24, 2014:
  Thailand on the Brink
  iPolitics
  Just beneath the surface, there are troubles aplenty in the Land of Smiles
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• January 14, 2014:
  Five ways the Snowden affair has disrupted world politics
  Globe and Mail
  Thanks to Ed Snowden, 2013 was a "Napster Year" for government secrecy and world order.
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• December 1, 2013:
  Faced With a Changing World, Diplomacy Needs to Evolve
  The Jakarta Globe
  From the largest country in Southeast Asia, some welcome interest in the prospects for radical diplomatic reform.
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• October 29, 2013:
  Pushing peacekeeping off the table
  iPolitics
  The demise of the Pearson Centre, and with it Canada's commitment to international peacekeeping, has left us all poorer.
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• October 7, 2013:
  The Syria effect: How the world has returned to diplomacy
  Globe and Mail
  Among those who prefer dialogue, negotiation and compromise to the use of force in international relations, the last few weeks have been both exceptional and instructive.
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• September 12, 2013:
  Update Syria: Is the War on Terror finally over?
  iPolitics
  Can diplomacy, democracy and multilateralism for once trump the use of force in international  relations? There are guarded gronds for hope.
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• August 23, 2013:
  In Defence of Diplomacy
  CIC
  In a heteropolitan world order, talking trumps fighting.
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• August 22, 2013:
  Canadian diplomacy must adapt
  Radio Canada International 
  In an extended interview, Daryl Copeland  discusses how diplomacy can best address the challenges of the globalization age.
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• August 21, 2013:
  In defence of diplomacy: Canada must do better
  Embassy
  Canada's "diplomatic ecosystem"' is on life support. That's not good enough. We can, and must take action.
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• August 20, 2013:
  Diplomacy, Globalization and Heteropolarity: The Challenge of Adaptation
  CDFAI Policy Papers
  In Canada as elsewhere, the "diplomatic ecosystem" is on life support. How to fix diplomacy, the foreign ministry and foreign service?
  Link
• July 31, 2013:
  After the Manning verdict, four big issues remain untouched
  Globe and Mail
  Critical matters of public policy lurk just behind the headlines in the sensational trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning.
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• July 18, 2013:
  As Snowden lingers in Moscow
  Globe and Mail
  By illuminating the extent of state-sponsored cyber-spying directed at both domestic and foreign targets, Mr. Snowden’s disclosures have both produced winners and losers and set the stage for possible remedial action.
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• June 29, 2013:
  The vanishing Canadian
  iPolitics
  What has become of Canada's once-admired  international brand ?
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