Paul Meyer

As US, Russian and Chinese rivalry intensifies, the UN faces a narrowing window to keep outer space secure for all.

Why the world’s most important nuclear agreement is losing credibility.

Half a century after Canada’s “Third Option” sought – unsuccessfully – to reduce economic dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling on middle powers to chart a new “third path” in a fractured global order. Revisiting the lessons of the 1970s, Paul Meyer asks whether today’s vision of collective middle-power action can overcome the structural forces that undermined earlier efforts – or whether it risks repeating history unless matched with concrete strategy and institutional innovation.

We are all living under a nuclear sword of Damocles and yet little has been done to remove the threat of its fall on our heads.

Strategic ballistic missile defence has not worked and there is no indication that it ever will.

While the US and UK failed to endorse the Summit’s final statement, China did, no doubt with an eye to the future and playing a leading role on AI governance.

The transforming technologies contained under the AI label have prompted a flurry of action by governments but international cooperation on AI governance is likely to remain elusive.

Within the UN, it is clear that member states need to find new or re-tooled diplomatic vehicles to advance progress on the broad disarmament agenda.

As the international community’s dependence on space-enabled services grows exponentially, the disconnect between space powers on rules for responsible behaviour in outer space can only be a matter of great concern.

The adage “timing is everything” may well apply to GAC’s transformation agenda. Its implementation coincides with a financial retrenchment across the Federal government