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Bachelet’s New Chile
Since the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile has arguably been Latin America's greatest success story. Even as…
The NSA and the Future of Espionage
Fully established in 2001 and reinforced and expanded under Barrack Obama's presidency, the National Security…
The Curious Case of Scott Reid
It's hard to get a handle on MP Scott Reid. Mercurial? Thinking man? Old school Parliamentarian? Perhaps he…
Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis: Lessons in Canadian…
Only twenty years into its foreign policy independence, Canada’s top diplomat had ended what could have been an…
Procedure as Handcuffs, Procedure as Wings
This week, MIR and Loon Calls introduces a new columnist. Nadir Khan is a Canadian politics junkie and former…
Canada 2014-2015: Election Fever
So here we are, upon a new year, 2014, with the arrival of a revived game politic in Canada. In Toronto, Mayor Ford…
Toward an Understanding of True Equality
Despite Nietzsche’s famous declaration that “God is dead,” religion is occupying a large place in today’s…
Slipping Through the Cracks of Government
In the wake of another Remembrance Day, the government’s disregard of Veteran Affairs could not be more…
The Ford Paradox: The Personality Deficit, the Ethical…
Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, has been accused of throwing sand in the eyes of Canadian citizenry,…
Defining War: Continuation of Policy Goals through…
War is a puzzling inter-state activity for political theorists. While several scholars such as James…
The Life and (Rumoured) Death of the Modern Political…
Our current culture of political analyses, with many polls considered, has created a space for frequent…
The Winds of Change are Blowing in Argentina – But…
For the past ten years, Kirchnerism has ruled unchallenged in Argentina. Since the late president Néstor Kirchner…