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A diminished Canada at home and abroad

April 3, 2012April 3, 2012 by daryl.copeland

Ottawa Citizen

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Gathering clouds threaten Turdeau's "sunny ways"
Five ways for Canada to get back into the diplomacy game
Charting power shifts in a new world for diplomats
Cold War comfort: the way we were
Science Diplomacy for the Age of Globalization
Can Canadian diplomatic leadership be restored?
Seven steps to a higher functioning foreign ministry
It will take more than smiles to reverse Canada's dire diplomatic record
Diaspora Scientific Communities at Home and Abroad: An Untapped Resource for Diplomacy?
Can Trudeau coax a shell-shocked public service out of its bunker?
Science and diplomacy after Canada's lost decade: Counting the costs, looking beyond
Rebuilding Canada – and its place in the world
Canada falls flat on the world stage
Canada and the Asia-Pacific: Unsteady interest and opportunities lost
Will Canada be the country that dumbed itself to death?
Bridging the Chasm
Rebuilding Canada's international capacity: Diplomatic reform in the age of globalization
Five reasons Ottawa shouldn't extend the Iraq mission
High hopes for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism
How we can do diplomacy better
Canada faltered on the world stage in 2014
Cuba libre: What the Havana deal means for diplomacy
A time of remembrance, and forgetting
There's a lot more to security than guns and surveillance
Ten steps to a world-beating diplomatic corps
For the West, war isn't working anymore
Humanity's best hope: Increasing diplomatic capacity in ten (uneasy) steps
Science and the limits of gunpoint diplomacy
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