Why the new Cold War looks different from the last one
War and peace have never really been binary. It’s always been a spectrum.
Foreign Policy
Why the future of commerce and geopolitics will flow through oceans
The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Bruce Jones, the director and senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
Brian Bird: Forgetting Afghanistan is not an option
We must never forget 9/11, and we must do all we can to prevent other dates that will live in infamy from coming to pass.
Merkel was stability, now Germany and Europe face uncertainty
Merkel’s confidence and determination have been more reassuring to the world than the performative displays of empathy we have come to expect from mere politicians.
Canada must find its own way in a century that belongs to no one
Any hopes that China would become as lucrative a market as the United States with its own special relationship have been dashed by the hard lesson that China has no special relationships beyond those that serve China.
Zachary Paikin: Afghanistan and the death of the liberal world order
The end of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan marks the definitive defeat of a naval power’s attempt to alter the foundations of global politics as far away as landlocked Central Eurasia.
Thomas Wright thinks 2020 was an alarming lesson on how the world deals with a global crisis
In this Hub Dialogue, The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Thomas Wright, the author of Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order.
On foreign policy, Canada must adapt to a changing landscape
This sentiment about our perceived global goodness is all good and dandy but when I try to delve deeper into what people think about Canada’s current foreign policy agenda and its objectives, people draw a blank.
Patrick Luciani: Is this the beginning of the end for communism in Cuba?
Is this the beginning of the end for communism in Cuba, or the end of the beginning, as Winston Churchill once said during the Second World War?
Canada must move away from ‘diplomacy on autopilot’ with China: Former ambassador
Canada needs to stop conducting “diplomacy on autopilot” with China if it wants to join a burgeoning international effort to check the country’s ambitions, argued David Mulroney, Canada’s former ambassador to China.
