Archive d'auteurs: Roland Paris

Published in the Globe and Mail, April 16, 2013. Why is Foreign Minister John Baird misrepresenting Canada’s policies on the Mideast? Last week, Mr. Baird met with Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni in East Jerusalem. The meeting was controversial because of its location. Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and later annexed it. Canada, like… Read More

Published in the Globe and Mail, April 5, 2013 The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking “clear positions” in the defence of human rights. Why, then, did Foreign Minister John Baird barely utter a peep in public about Bahrain’s terrible human rights record when he visited that count… Read More

Published in the Globe and Mail, March 22, 2013 Thursday’s announcement that the Canadian International Development Agency will be folded into the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade leaves critical questions about Canada’s aid policy unanswered. First, regardless of whether aid policy is run from CIDA or a new mega-ministry, will o… Read More

Published in Opencanada.org, March 19, 2013 In the weeks leading up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a number of prominent Canadian commentators and political figures warned of dire consequences to Canada-U.S. relations if this country failed to join the American-led coalition.  As it turned out, however, the U.S. administration quickl… Read More

The Harper government’s “secret” foreign policy plan, revealed by the CBC today, offers few surprises. Its emphasis on pursuing economic opportunities, particularly in emerging markets, is a reflection of what the government is already doing. The real news is not that this document exists – the fact that it has been under development for over a year is one… Read More

Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 11 juli 2012. It was fitting that last weekend’s international donors’ conference on Afghanistan took place in Tokyo: The event resembled the city’s famous kabuki theatre, with its ritualized drama of grand gestures and hidden meanings. The centrepiece of the meeting was a pledge by donors, including Canada, for $16-billio… Read More

Derek Burney and Fen Osler Hampson have well-deserved reputations as level-headed observers of Canada-U.S. relations. How, then, did they come to write an article so full of misjudgments on this subject? The article in question, “How Obama Lost Canada,” appeared on the website of Foreign Affairs magazine this week. As the title suggests, the authors arg… Read More

The latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, includes an important article by Lisa Anderson, an American political scientist who is currently president of the American University in Cairo. Anderson argues that new information technologies are transforming the relationship between universitie… Read More

Je ne suis pas la politique canadienne d’assez près normalement pour pouvoir jouer au jeu de deviner qui seront les gagnants et les perdants du prochain remaniement ministériel, mais il arrive parfois qu’un pressentiment en vaille la gageure, comme maintenant. Je gagerais un gros dollar que John Baird passera du ministère des Affaires étrangères au mini… Read More