Last week I the good fortune of participating in an intimate workshop on Canadian foreign policy hosted by CIGI and convened in preparation for an upcoming issue of the International Journal in which the papers will be published. One of the participants, Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, gave an excellent paper on The United Nations and the Regime [...]
Entries tagged as “arctic”
Canada’s Arctic Strategy – playing to the strengths of others
Better late than never…
So it looks like some people in the US are finally coming around to the fact that they should recognize Canada’s claim on the Northwest Passage. A former U.S. ambassador to Ottawa says it’s time for his country to reconsider its traditional position on Arctic sovereignty and admit that the Northwest Passage is part of [...]
Canada as, err… a (cough) model power…
With Russia planting a flag on the Arctic Ocean floor, Peter Mckay’s observing “You can’t go around the world these days dropping a flag somewhere. This isn’t the 14th or 15th century” and the press corp pointing out the rich irony of the situation (see Hans Island), it’s an exciting week in Canadian Foreign Policy. [...]
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