2011 OpenCanada Content Glossary

We have only been live for 6 months, but we have been busy.  Below is a chronicle of the content we have produced since our launch in August.  Here’s to the next year of debate, innovation and progress in the international affairs conversation.

Think Tanks:

For each Think Tank, we ask a group of experts and practitioners to reflect on an international policy issue.  Here are the subjects we explored in 2011.

• Are Social Media Driving the Arab Spring?


• Is Good Banking Regulation Good Foreign Policy?


• Can Diplomacy and History be Transparent?


• How Can Canada Engage its Diaspora?


• Can War Be Beautiful?


• Who Shot Ahmed Wali Karzai?


• Will Germany Kill Europe?


• Did al-Qaeda Hijack the Terrorism Discourse?


• Canada Navigates China’s Rise


• Is Brazil the Key BRIC?


• Sitting on the Stimulus


• What Does Conservative Foreign Policy Look Like?


• Does IP Policy = FP?


• The CIC and CCA Welcome Colombia’s President


• Does Brazil Care about Canada?


• Diplomacy in the Digital Age


• Tweeting Genocide


• Will Globalization Kill Canadian Manufacturing?


• A Billionaire Revolutionary?


• Perimeter: NAFTA 2.0?


• How We Fight

Essays: 

Stand alone essays are individual long-form contributions

• Colin Robertson’s ‘Could the Great Lakes Represents Canada’s Economic Future?


• Erin Baines’ ‘Target or Captives? Obama’s LRA Challenge’


• Simon Wexler-Collard’s ‘Designing Institutions for a New Libya’


• Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay’s ‘Ghengis Khan Keeps an Eye on his Riches’


• Emily Paddon’s ‘Beyond Elections in the Congo’


•  ‘How can Canada Engage its Diaspora?’: Patrick Johnson


• Canada Navigates China’s Rise’: Joanna Wong and Michael Hart


• What Does Conservative Foreign Policy Look Like?’: Hugh Segal


• ‘The CIC and CCA Welcome Colombia’s President’: Stephen Randall


• ‘A Billionaire Revolutionary?’: Paul Sedra and Bessma Momani


• ‘How We Fight’: Stephanie Carvin, John Tirman, Michael Spagat and Leslie Roberts

Interviews

We have conducted a wide range of interviews, by phone, email, video recording and online chat.

• ‘Is Canadian Liberal Internationalism Dead?’ with Andrew Cohen


• ‘What is Canada’s Legacy in Afghanistan?’ with Graeme Smith


• ‘The World Focused on Oslo’ with Kristian Berg Harpviken


• ‘When Civil War and Drought Collide’ with Chris Tidey


• ‘Ignatieff’s Greatest Success?’ with Michael Ignatieff


• ‘Tales from Tahrir’ with Lyse Doucet


• ‘Al Qaeda: A Hostage Reflects’ with Robert Fowler


• ‘Are Social Media Driving the Arab Spring?’: Sarah Abdurrahman, Sonia Verma, Brian Stewart and Jillian York


• ‘Is Good Banking Regulation Good Foreign Policy’: Chrystia Freeland, Colin Robertson and John Manley


• ‘Can Diplomacy and History by Transparent’?: Margaret MacMillan, Clay Shirky and Jeremy Kinsman


• ‘Can War be Beautiful?’: Danfung Dennis and Sophie Hackett


• ‘Who Shot Ahmed Wali Karzai?’: Mark Sedra and Matthieu Aikins


• ‘Will Germany Kill Europe?’: Louis Pauly, Brian Milner and Hans Kundnani


• ‘Did al-Qaeda Hijack the Terrorism Discourse?’: Stephen Walt, Mark Juergensmeyer and Sean Brighton


• ‘Canada Navigates China’s Rise’: Paul Evans and Jon Penney


• ‘Is Brazil the Key BRIC?’: Ted Hewitt, Raul Papaleo and Richard Pound


• ‘Sitting on the Stimulus’: Catherine Swift and John Curtis


• ‘What Does Conservative Foreign Policy Look Like?’: Adam Daifallah, David Bercuson and Nicholas Gafuik


• ‘Does IP Policy = FP?’: Rafi Hofstein, David Wolfe and Richard Gold


• ‘The CIC and CCA Welcome Colombia’s President’: Arlene Tickner


• ‘Does Brazil Care About Canada?”: Paul Knox, Jamal Khokhar, Joao Augusto de Castro Neve, Christopher Garman, Jean Daudelin and Susan Kaufman Purcell


• ‘Diplomacy in the Digital Age’: William Thorsell, Brian Box, Ed Greenspon and Drew Fagan


• ‘Tweeting Genocide’: Rick MacInnes-Rae, Mona Eltahawy, Gordon Smith, Roméo Dallaire and André Pratte


• ‘Will Globalization Kill Manufacturing?’: Jim Milway, Andrea-Mandel-Campbell, Stephen Chase, Christopher Sands and Edward Burtynsky


• ‘Perimeter: NAFTA 2.0?’ Duncan Wood


• ‘How We Fight’: Peter Singer, Michael Rubin

Editorial Content

These stand alone pieces were developed in-house by our editorial staff.

• Who are the #cdnfp Twitterati?


• 10 Ways 9/11 Changed Canadian Foreign Policy


• Canada’s Stance on Palestine


• Occupy vs. The Tea Party


• A Story of Widgets


• Sawiris: Globalist of the Year


• Counting the Dead

Rapid Response Questions:

Each of the questions below, was sent to a group of Canadian international affairs experts.

• What issue should John Baird prioritize?


• How has Canada’s experience in Afghanistan changed Canadian foreign policy?


• Can Lagarde and the IMF save the Euro?


• Should Canada strengthen its military presence in the Arctic?


• Does last week’s creation of a Southern Sudanese state point to secession as the solution to other African conflicts?


• What’s the ultimate objective of Harper’s softer stance on China?


• Should we view the Oslo attack as an arbitrary act or as a reflection of wider political and religious extremism?


• Was Jason Kenney’s public outing of 30 wanted war criminals legitimate and / or effective?


• What societal problems have the London riots exposed?


• Does the ‘royal’ rebranding of the Canadian Forces have a wider meaning?


• What would be the regional fallout from the end of Assad’s regime?


• Is Conservative foreign policy different from Liberal foreign policy?


• If 9/11 defined the last decade, will the Arab Spring define the next?


• Is a U.N. resolution on Palestinian statehood a step forward or backward for the Israel-Palestine conflict?


• Is the Ethical Oil Campaign helping or hurting Canada’s international reputation?


• Is Jean Monnet’s dream for Europe ending in nightmare?


• Should Canada treat its intellectual property as a national asset?


• Are diplomats needed in the digital age?


• Why commemorate the War of 1812?


• Could the spread of information via digital media reduce mass atrocities?


• How can the G20 help save the euro zone?


• Can the Egyptian revolution be counted a success while the Armed Forces remain in power?


• With the delay in Keystone XL, will attention now shift to the Northern Gateway?


• What is the best international affairs book of 2011?


• What was Canada’s best international moment of 2011?

The Roundtable:

Gregory Chin:

• Global Leadership at Cannes: China’s Arrival or What Happened to America?


• Dear Prime Minister Harper – A Good Time for an Asia Strategy


• Dear Prime Minister Harper – A Good Time for an Asia Strategy, Part II

John Hancock:

• Peace Can Be Dangerous


• It’s Getting Harder to Run the World – So Spare Some Sympathy for the French


• JB Rules. For Now.


• Irrational Pessimism


• An Orderly Anarchy


• Globalization’s Achilles Heel


• The Great Confusion


• The Club That Matters


• Power to the People


• War or Peace


• Top Four Reasons We Should Ignore Rankings (But Won’t)


• Quitting Kyoto – Un-Canadian

Roland Paris:

• Greetings!


• R2P v. ICC?


• No Republicanism, Please – We’re Canadian


• Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Next Quagmire?


• What is Stephen Harper Afraid of?


• Crowd-sourcing Terror in Norway


• Four Reasons for Optimism in Libya


• What Winston Churchill Could Teach Stephen Harper


• Wanted: Grand Strategy for the New World Disorder


• Revenge of the Drones


• What Does the U.S. Expect from Pakistan?


• The Ugly Underside of Arab Liberation


• Is There a Problem in Canada-U.S. Relations?


• NATO’s Success in Libya


• The 800-Pound Panda in Obama’s Asia Speech


• A Pivotal Moment? U.S. Policy Toward Asia


• Canada-U.S. Border Deal – From Aspiration to Action


• The Total Surveillance Society Approaches

André Pratte:

• Questions on Libya and R2P


• The Provocation Flotilla


• God Save the Superstars!


• What Future for the Euro?


• Somalia: No Water. No Solution.


• Power Corrupts. Even the Fourth.


• Norway: Tweeting at the Speed of Light.


• Libya and Canada’s “New” Foreign Policy


• The Canadian Forces are Royal… and Obese (Again)


• Obama’s Jolt: Will it Work?


• Secrets? What Secrets?


• Desperately Looking for Leadership

Jennifer Welsh:

• Question, Challenge and Dispute 


• Libya and R2P


• In Defence of R2P


• Canada’s Bush?


• Blame the Bobbies


• The Big Deal? The Big Distraction.


• What’s Next for Capitalism?


• Rights and Responsibilities in a Post- Qaddafi Libya


• In Conversation on Libya


• The Folly of Europe Bashing


• Recognizing States and Governments – A Tricky Business


• The Impact of 9/11 on the Ethics of Military Action


• It’s About Politics, Not Economics


• Revenge of the Technocrats


• How New is the Threat of Cyber Attack?


• British Exceptionalism and the ‘National Interest’

Dispatch:

Anouk Dey:

• Public Opinion and Public Interest


• The Chosen War


• The North is Calling. But Not for More CF-18s.


• Putting the X in External Affairs


• Herman Cain is a Constructivist


• Two Ways to Say No to Globalization

Jennifer Jeffs:

• National Roundup


• President’s Welcome


• Muzzled Media and the Common Great Lakes Agenda


• On the Global Drug Policy Debate


• History Repeats Itself (Let’s Hope Marx Was Wrong)


• Capitalizing the B in BRIC


• Welcome, Professors and Students


• Globalist of the Year


• A Call to Action


• Fairness and Financial Stability


• A Holiday Greeting from the CIC


• The “Mexican Problem” is Canada’s Problem

Taylor Owen:

• Four Ways to Reinvigorate the Canadian Foreign Policy Debate


• Welcome to OpenCanada.org!


• The Munk Debates, Henry Kissinger and Polite Company


• First Impressions from ISAF HQ in Kabul


• Notes from Mazer el Sharif: Tactical Challenges, Strategic Quagmire


• More on the Integrity of the Comprehensive Approach


• Have the Taliban Changed Their Tune one Women’s Rights?


• How the New Yorker Goes Viral


• Afghan Army: If You Build it, Who Will Come?


• The Risks of Building the Afghan Army


• Would Slowing Oil Sands Development Make us Richer, Cleaner and More Powerful?


• Conferencing in Halifax While Rome Burns?