Geography has been destiny – yet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means, historian Ian Morris once observed ...

As a 2024 survey revealed, the opinions of Canada’s IR professors on the state of the discipline are actually quite stable.

For a government laser-focused on threats to Canada’s economy, engagement in faraway countries may seem a distraction. Development aid has lost its lustre with critics decrying aid as ‘wasteful,’ self ...

Canada’s war in Afghanistan cost Ottawa at least $18 billion, with more than 40,000 members of the Canadian Forces serving there from 2001-2014, helping to overthrow the Taliban and chase out al-Qaeda ...

Cultural diplomacy is often discussed from the vantage point of a national government and its international cultural ...

With little fanfare this September in Vilnius, Lithuania the first international legally binding agreement on the governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was opened for signature. Negotiated by the ...

This explainer was written by a group of UBC graduate students as part of our Lind Initiative series on inequality. It was an assignment from a course on public policy. How does income inequality ...

Research Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs The decision last month by the United States (US) to join Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear program – potentially leading to a ...

Do you believe — really believe — that all peoples are entitled to equal protection of international law now that you are so strong? Do you believe — really believe — that treaty pledges should be ...

This essay is a Strategic Studies Working Group Paper produced in partnership with the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. Download the pdf version, which includes full footnotes and ...

Saeed Rahnema on why Rowhani won Iran’s presidential election and what his victory will mean for the people of Iran. Open Canada is an online magazine published by the Canadian International Council ...

Resident Professor, Johns Hopkins University SAIS in Nanjing, China. In 1931, Frederick Lewis Allen published a journalistic social history of 1920s America. Casting about for a title, he settled on ...