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Chris Westdal: Now is the time for diplomacy with Russia

July 12, 2016

We wrote about Canada’s ill-advised decision to establish and lead a rotational multinational NATO battlegroup in Latvia in our blog post of 30 June entitled Trudeau government: Room for improvement on key security issues. In that post we noted how the German Foreign Minister has variously described NATO’s actions in deploying four battlegroups on Russia’s […]

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RI President, Peggy Mason on Historic Iran Nuclear Deal

July 14, 2015

I am writing this blog not only as RI President, but as a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the United Nations.  I had much direct experience of negotiations with Iran, in the context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review process and in many other arms control negotiations at the UN.  Of course that was […]

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