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Dirty Hands: The Politics of Morality

“Dirty Hands” refers to the idea that the right political action can conflict with profound morality. The term was first coined by Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 play, Dirty Hands. More

Posted On : March 30, 2018 Published By : Helia Mokhber
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Populism Meets Protectionism: Trump Overlooks the Dark Past of Protectionism

On March 1st, President Trump tweeted, “Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the More

Posted On : March 29, 2018 Published By : William Hanna
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Liberal Blunders, Conservative Leadership, and the 2019 Federal Elections

Prime Minister Trudeau’s woeful visit to India has been the subject of much mockery in the past few weeks – and with good reason. The invitation of a suspected extremist More

Posted On : March 28, 2018 Published By : Olivier Bergeron-Boutin
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The Fourth Estate: The Importance of a Free Press for the Maintenance of Good Government

On the morning of October 27th 1787, a trio of New York newspapers, including the Independent Journal, published the first of a series of articles that would eventually become the More

Posted On : March 27, 2018 Published By : Nico Mak-Wasek
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Emperor Xi & Insurgent Trump: A Recipe for Future Geopolitical Chaos

The past ten days mark perhaps the two biggest geopolitical developments in the decade to come. The Chinese Communist Party amended the Chinese constitution to allow for more than two More

Posted On : March 26, 2018 Published By : Srijan Shukla
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Nigeria’s Response to Boko Haram: Then and Now

In 2014, Boko Haram abducted 256 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria. Last month, they struck once again and kidnapped 110 girls from Dapchi in Northeastern Nigeria. In the time that passed More

Posted On : March 23, 2018 Published By : Erin McDonald
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Theorizing Colonialism: Heuristic Advantages and Historical Erasure

Colonialism is not a theoretical problem.   Let me clarify this statement: Genocide, dispossession, slavery are not theoretical problems. There is ample historical evidence of the atrocities associated with the More

Posted On : March 22, 2018 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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A Lion in Lamb’s Clothing? Conor Lamb and the Future of the Democratic Party

A special election in Pennsylvania has dominated the news cycle for the past week. The election was extraordinary in several ways. Firstly, the Democratic candidate ran on a centrist, bipartisan More

Posted On : March 21, 2018 Published By : Sophia Kamps
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Another One Bites the Dust: Rex Tillerson is Out as Secretary of State

After months of speculation, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Donald Trump on March 13th. As expected, Trump fired Tillerson through a tweet, and reportedly only contacted More

Posted On : March 20, 2018 Published By : Evelyne Goulet
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Canada’s Intra-party Democracy Deficit

The term “democratic deficit” is used by political analysts to describe political institutions whose level of democracy fails to reach theoretical standards  of democratic governance. The term has widely been More

Posted On : March 19, 2018 Published By : Catharina O’Donnell

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