2011 OpenCanada Content Glossary

Founder and Publisher of OpenCanada.org and Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at UBC
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?