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Ho Chi Minh’s Dream at History’s End
Since the end of the Cold War, most people assume that, with exception of North Korea, the ex-Communist world…
Bachelet’s New Chile
Since the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile has arguably been Latin America's greatest success story. Even as…
After Nasser, Nasser?
On the 3rd of July 2013, after a series of large protests across the country, the first democratically elected…
The Case for Chinese Democracy
It was over 100 years ago that Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a pivotal figure in the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Qing…
Weekly Roundup: February 7
The beginning of a new month, and international politics never stop moving. MIR, as always, is on top of it.…
South Africa’s Complex Youth
As some conventions might suggest, political parties and the state have, for quite some time, considered…
Three Brothers: The Pakistan-Afghanistan-India Rivalry
Pakistani-Afghan relations are a “complex and complicated nexus” that have produced seemingly self-defeating…
Weekly Roundup: January 31
As January comes to a close and the bitterness of Montreal's winter seems to recede, MIR continues to publish. This…
The NSA and the Future of Espionage
Fully established in 2001 and reinforced and expanded under Barrack Obama's presidency, the National Security…
“By the time we can join, the EU won’t even…
On January 21st 2014, the European Union began formal negotiations with Serbia regarding the Balkan country’s…
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…