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Lessons from a Decade in Afghanistan
March 30, 2016
Lessons from a Decade in Afghanistan, by Nipa Banerjee, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Rideau Institute, was originally posted on the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) blog. It is reproduced in its entirety below. The lessons below are gleaned from […]
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Let’s not repeat past mistakes in Libya
March 2, 2016
Five years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, an international military intervention is once again being considered in response to the establishment of a branch of the Islamic State (IS) on the Libyan coast. At the beginning of February, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on coalition partners involved in the fight […]
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Is Afghanistan a Model for our anti-ISIL Mission?
February 19, 2016
Afghan National Army soldiers at a graduation parade at the Kabul Military Training CentreCanada in Afghanistan: A Role Model for Canada’s Middle East Mission, by Nipa Banerjee, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Rideau Institute, was originally posted on the Centre for […]
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Some of our favourite Rideau Institute posts of 2015
December 31, 2015
Glancing back at the Rideau Institute blog posts for 2015 gives some idea of the range of important foreign, defence and security policy issues with which we dealt. We begin with the first of many posts on Canada’s grotesque $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia: Saudi arms deal makes mockery of Canadian values (Peggy Mason, Embassy, […]
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