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by Joshua Samac and Alexander Brown | Emerging Security Program Monday night marked the third and final debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Candidate Mitt Romney where the nuances of strikingly similar foreign policies played out as a series of sound bites repeated the world over. The “horses and bayonets” meme viralized the twitterverse Read More…
Some members of the transatlantic community have unfairly labelled Canada as the “slacker of transatlantica.” Does this myth hold-up?
Foreign policy is the face that Canada presents to the world, so if our foreign policy was more reflective of how we play hockey, would the world view us in a much different light?
His Excellency Ahmet Davutoglu recently visited Canada – the first visit by a Turkish foreign minister in 14 years – demonstrated that Canadian-Turkish relations are not as sound as they might be, and also that they are slowly improving.
Lieutenant-General Thomas Lawson’s recent appointment as Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has generated a flurry of commentary on what the selection heralds regarding the government’s intentions on a range of issues.
In a potentially precedent setting court case, four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth Netherlands [Milieudefensie], an NGO, are suing Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest multinationals in the world for environmental damage caused by oil spills. Shell, Nigeria’s largest producer of oil has dismissed the claims stating that domestic terrorism in the Read More…
Locating Terrorism and the War on Terror in the international legal and diplomatic discourse.
The $15.1 billion bid for Calgary-based Nexen by China’s state-owned giant CNOOC continues to raise concerns over nationality, job displacement, and the overall net benefit for Canadians.
[captionpix align=”left” theme=”elegant” width=”320″ imgsrc=”http://www.semissourian.com/photos/17/39/07/1739075-H.jpg ” captiontext=”Libyans protesting against militias in Benghazi.”] Protests continue to hit the streets of Libya, though with anger now directed towards members of its own population rather than the incendiary, anti-Islamic YouTube film that captured the world’s attention earlier this month. On September 21st, tens of thousands of protesters stormed Read More…
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird criticized the organization’s obsession with internal matters as hindering its ability to tackle dire international issues. Does this represent a shift in Canadian foreign policy?