A diminished Canada at home and abroad

Guerrilla Diplomacy: In The News

• February 19, 2015:
  High hopes for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism
  Embassy
  Can the world's international institutions be reformed to better advance peace and prosperity? Enter the Independent Commission on Multilateralism.
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• February 19, 2015:
  How we can do diplomacy better
  iPolitics
  If he addresses the diplomatic deficit, the lack of grand strategy and the troubled Canadian brand, newly appointed Foreign Minister Rob Nicholson could make a difference.
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• December 30, 2014:
  Out of Afghanistan: Winners and losers after thirteen years of combat
  Globe and Mail
  NATO has little to celebrate as coalition members rush for the exits and ISAF is replaced by the residual Resolute Support Mission.
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• December 24, 2014:
  Canada faltered on the world stage in 2014
  Toronto Star
  As the year ends, Canadians receive a lump of coal for their country's place in the world.
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• December 23, 2014:
  Cuba libre: What the Havana deal means to diplomacy
  iPolitics
  The US-Cuba rapprochement carries implications well beyond domestic politics and bilateral relations.
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• December 16, 2014:
  Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn?
  World Scientific
  Read the introduction to a comprehensive new anthology covering key issues in science diplomacy.
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• November 19, 2014:
  A time of remembrance, and forgetting
  Embassy
  This November, Canadians have special cause to remember, but much has also been forgotten.
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• October 31, 2014:
  There’s a lot more to security than guns and surveillance
  iPolitics
  A five point strategy for Canada to counter the Islamic State and domestic political violence
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• September 28, 2014:
  Ten steps to a world-beating diplomatic corps
  iPolitics
  Refined manners, book learning and Ivy League education still have a place in diplomacy, but so do the qualities of resilience and self-sufficiency more easily acquired through grassroots volunteer work and independent world travel.
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• September 25, 2014:
  For the West, war isn’t working anymore
  iPolitics
  Much of the present global instability — not least the devastating blowback now emanating from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya — is rooted in the failure of previous military interventions.
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• August 11, 2014:
  Science and the limits of gunpoint diplomacy
  iPolitics
  The worsening "blowback" from Western interventions in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan is cause for concern, but the bigger picture is even more disturbing.
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• 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.
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• 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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