International eyes will soon turn to the 2023 Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections and whether President Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will continue in power. Relations between Canada and Turkey have generally been good since...
The former Canadian ambassador to the United States who redefined Canada’s brand in Washington has died at 92. Allan Gotlieb was an extraordinary composite of talent and purpose, formed like so many others who emerged from the galvanizing social cauldron of...
Did the ambassador’s reportorial vanity lead him to underestimate the venality and rage that has infected government circles from the Brexit mess? Former UK Ambassador to the US: Sir Kim Darroch In partnership with SAGE Publications, one article of key significance...
CIC President Mark Sedra made trips to the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University and the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden in March 2018 to deliver lectures on the issue of Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries. While at the...
CIC Senior Fellow Fernando Chinchilla served as the CIC representative for Global Affair's Canada's consultations with civil society organizations on democratic governance against corruption, which will inform Canada’s engagement in the Eighth Summit of the Americas...
Former Ambassador and CIC Distinguished Fellow, Mokhtar Lamani, will participate in the launch of two studies on the constitution and elections in Syria. The studies are part of the framework of the National Agenda for the Future of Syria Programme (NAFS), developed...
In a special report for the United States Institute for Peace, CIC Senior Fellow David Mozersky co-authored South Sudan’s Renewable Energy Potential: A Building Block for Peace with Dr. Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley. About the Report The world’s newest country, South...
The Canadian International Council (CIC) is pleased to announce that four new experts will be joining the 2017-2018 class of CIC fellows. Fernando Chinchilla, an expert in conflict resolution, pacification processes and democratization processes, will contribute to...
CIC President Briefs the House of Commons NATO's commitments are about more than just funding percentages explained CIC President Mark Sedra on November 20, 2017, as he testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence as part of study...
CIC Fellow Briefs House of Commons On November 1st, new CIC Senior Fellow Danielle Stodilka provided a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence along with testimony given by Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military...
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