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There is Nothing for You Here

THE “IMPROBABLE FIONA HILL,” as the author calls herself, emerged into the limelight in the first impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump in 2019. Previously a respected Russia expert in the think tank circles of Washington, D.C. and a professional…
The National Museum of American Diplomacy

PRUDENCE BUSHNELL WAS THE US AMBASSADOR to Kenya when al Qaeda terrorists bombed her embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 people. Blown to the floor by the blast during a meeting in a nearby building, Bushnell, a career Foreign Service Officer,…
The Decline of Democracy in the World

FREEDOM IN THE WORLD, THE 2021 ANNUAL REPORT of Freedom House, a US institution, carried the title, Democracy Under Siege. It noted with sadness that 2021 marked the 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. In 2020, its evaluation was that…
Refugee Law After 9/11

OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR, YORK UNIVERSITY’S Inaugural Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, states that refugee laws and regimes in Canada and the USA “for the most part … reacted in strikingly similar ways to the heightened security vigil triggered by…
A Saner, Less Fragmented World in 2021

Only 20 years ago, Canadian diplomacy was at the front end of the post-Cold War effort to design and anchor new inclusive norms for international governance. Do we still have the stuff, the will and ability, to be a key player again?
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

MOST READERS OF FORMER FBI DIRECTOR James Comey’s memoir will likely flip directly to the end of the book for his explanations of the FBI’s decisions in the face of Hillary Clinton using a private e-mail server while Secretary of State, or…