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The failing Western strategy in Syria
September 27, 2015
Gar Pardy, calls for a complete re-evaluation of Western strategy in Syria. Related developments include an impending meeting between President Obama and Russian President Putin this week at the UN in New York and joint efforts by the American administration and the EU to bring Iran into the talks over Syria. After four years of […]
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Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Part One
September 12, 2015
Image credit: Sakis Mitrolidis, AFP, Getty Images , Ottawa Citizen by Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute On September 8th a group of Canadians who have worked internationally on humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and peacebuilding issues, many of us under the auspices of the [now defunct] Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, sent a letter to the Minister […]
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Op-ed by Rideau Institute Special Advisor Gar Pardy
May 15, 2013
Quatar’s quiet understanding of Canadian politics Gar Pardy Embassy News May 8, 2013 Canadians can be forgiven if they have trouble recognizing Qatar or its significance to Canada. That has changed in the last few days. Qatar, with surprising adroitness, offered to host the International Civil Aviation Organization—and in doing so wrest it away from […]
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Rideau Institute Senior Advisor Gar Pardy op-ed: Canada could be drawn into Chinese containment strategy
November 28, 2012
Embassy News November 28, 2012 On Feb. 22, 1946, the American chargé in Moscow, George F. Kennan, replied to a State Department inquiry on Soviet foreign policy in the aftermath of the Second World War. His 8,000 word response, historically referred to as the Long Telegram, within a few months became the basis of American […]
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