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Pulling together for Sustainable Common Security
June 11, 2018
Peter Langille, one of the Rideau Institute’s Senior Advisors, spoke recently at a conference with the intriguing title How to Save the World in a Hurry (30-31 May 2018, Toronto). He brilliantly articulated the urgent need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and the case for “sustainable common security” as […]
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Making Canadian diplomacy smart and effective again
June 5, 2018
In an insightful article based on his testimony to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in December 2017, former diplomat Daryl Copeland makes a persuasive case for putting culture, science and diplomacy back at the heart of Canadian international policy: For too long, culture, science and diplomacy have suffered from neglect in Canada…. Rather than looking […]
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Canada at a crossroads with its arms export policy
May 28, 2018
Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University focuses his latest commentary on the power and pervasiveness of the “military-industrial-academic-bureaucratic complex”: At the core of the complex is a largely self-sustaining system demonstrating a high degree of integration between manufacturers, the military and political leaderships, all benefiting from security policies predicated on the potential and actual use […]
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There must be accountability for torture.
May 24, 2018
The U.S. Senate voted 54–45 on Thursday, 17 May 2018 to approve the nomination of Gina Haspel as the new CIA Director. After the 9/11 attacks, Gina Haspel worked as Chief of Staff in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Section, the unit responsible for the coordination of the CIA’s infamous rendition, detention and “enhanced interrogation” program. In […]
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