An agenda for Canada’s new foreign minister
Mélanie Joly has an opportunity to give Canada’s foreign policy the coherence it’s been missing
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Director, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Roland Paris is a professor and director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and an associate fellow of Chatham House. He has taken several leaves from his academic career to serve in government, including as senior advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on global affairs and defence. Previously, he was visiting fellow at the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, assistant professor the University of Colorado-Boulder, visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and director of research at the Conference Board of Canada, the country’s largest think tank. Website: http://rolandparis.com
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Canada’s post-pandemic foreign policy: three big questions
Living beside a friendly superpower and prospering within a stable international order, Canadians could easily shelter from storms beyond our borders. These protections are eroding. Canada needs to prepare.
The US as a threat. Love for NATO. This is how Canadians feel about security issues
With results in from a public opinion survey commissioned after the
Department of National Defence launched its new strategy in 2017, Roland Paris
summarizes the most interesting — and sometimes surprising — findings.
Why Canada needs to pursue a global agenda, despite Trump
“One day, a different U.S. president may embrace this vision,” writes Roland Paris. “For as long as Trump remains in office, however, America’s traditional partners will need to work together.”
Trump’s recklessness puts global stability at risk
The effects of Donald Trump’s declared foreign policy will reverberate across the globe and, as Roland Paris argues, cause the kind of international instability that the U.S. has historically sought to prevent.
Transition memos show Canada’s foreign ministry is doing its job
Authors of the memos were not seeking to embarrass the government, Roland Paris argues, but to provide the best possible analysis to the new Foreign Minister.
Road map for Canada: A foreign policy for the future
An excerpt from Roland Paris’ open letter to Canada’s next Prime Minister.
Canada’s mission creep in Iraq (and why it matters)
We should support Iraqi troops, but we can’t fight their war for them, argues Roland Paris.
How political disagreements endanger peacekeeping
Roland Paris on why operational failure isn’t the biggest risk to peacekeeping.
Are Canadians still liberal internationalists?
The Harper government has distanced itself from a multilateral approach to foreign policy. Do Canadians agree? By Roland Paris.