Shows
CIPS PODThe Future Of The Canadian Foreign ServiceCIPS Director Rita Abrahamsen is joined by career diplomats Kerry Buck and Ulric Shannon (also a CIPS Research Fellow) to discuss his new report, "Competitive Expertise and Future Diplomacy: Subject-Matter Specialization in Generalist Foreign Ministries", which highlights the best practices that other foreign ministries have developed, which could be adapted to the needs of the Canadian diplomatic service as part of a future reform agenda, perhaps in response to the findings of the Senate or of Minister Joly’s Future of Diplomacy initiative.
Read the full report here: https://www.cips-cepi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Competitive-Expertise-and-Future-Diplomacy-published-version.pdf
Read a summary blog he...
2022-09-0622 min
CIPS PODOn ‘Critical’ Scholarship in Intelligence and Surveillance StudiesThe term ‘Critical’ is seemingly ubiquitous in the academic research in international relations and related fields. In this episode of CIPS POD, host Srdjan Vucetic and guests, David Murakami Wood Hager and Ben Jaffel discuss what ‘critical’ means to them in the context of intelligence studies.
Srdjan Vucetic teaches at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA-ÉSAPI), University of Ottawa. Research interests in international politics, foreign & defence policy, and the Yugoslav region. Co-Coordonnateur du Réseau en théorie internationale du Centre d’études en politiques internationales (CÉPI-CIPS).
David Murakami Wood is the Director of the Surveillance St...
2022-01-1627 min
CIPS PODThe Question of EnglishnessPhoto by Kirill Sharkovski on Unsplash (CC)
Intro music: “England” by Pictures of the Floating World (CC)
Host:
Prof. Srdjan Vucetic (https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/1025)
Guests:
Prof. Ailsa Henderson (https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/ailsa-henderson)
Prof. Richard Wyn Jones (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330709-wyn-jones-richard)
Dr. Ben Wellings (https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/ben-wellings)
Check out: “Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain” - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/englishness-9780198870784?cc=ca&lang=en&
2021-04-2244 min
2021-03-1304 min
CIPS PODCIPSPOD Presents: The Ethics Of Counter Terrorism By Patti Tamara Lenard - A Book LaunchIn this podcast, Jeffery Howard and Issac Taylor join Patti Tamara Lenard in considering the ethical questions that are raised by the pursuit of counter-terrorism policies in democratic states.
Jeff is an associate professor of political theory at University College London, and is currently on a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. His current project focuses on how to combat the varieties of harmful content online, including terrorist propaganda, hate speech, and disinformation.
Isaac Taylor is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Stockholm University. Isaac's research interests are in moral and political philosophy, and particularly focus on how governments can pursue the...
2020-10-281h 02
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series Episode 6 - The Middle EastWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canada to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In the sixth and final episode, Thomas Juneau asks what’s at stake for the Middle East i...
2020-10-2128 min
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series Episode 5 - NATOWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canada to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In this episode CIPS’ In the fifth episode, Alexandra Gheciu is joined by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and James...
2020-10-2126 min
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series: Episode 4 - AsiaWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canada to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In this episode CIPS’ Christopher W. Bishop talks to Shan Huang and Tosh Minohara on the topic...
2020-10-1930 min
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series: Episode 3 - The Special RelationshipWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canad a to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In this episode CIPS’ Michael Williams speaks with Dr Michelle Bentley (Royal Holloway, UK) and Prof B...
2020-10-1728 min
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series: Episode 2 - AfricaWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canada to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In this episode CIPS’ Prof. Rita Abrahamsen hosts Prof Gilbert M Khadiagala (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South...
2020-10-1632 min
CIPS PODCIPS US Election Special Series: Episode 1 - The EnvironmentWith the US as an all-powerful neighbour and main trading partner, Canadian analyses of the US elections are naturally focused on what’s at stake for Canada and Canadians. But the November 2020 elections are also eagerly watched in other parts of the world, where the outcome could have important implications.
With this series of podcasts, CIPS shifts the spotlight away from Canada to ask what’s at stake in the US elections for other regions of the world and for international cooperation more generally?
In this episode CIPS’ Dr. Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, hosts a discussion on the environment with Dr. Jessic...
2020-10-1535 min
CIPS PODJacqueline Best and Randall Germain | Political Economy in Times of COVID-19 PandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic has radically and rapidly transformed our lives.
It’s killed tens of thousands around the world, while the number of confirmed infections is in the millions.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has confirmed that all major economies have now entered a recession.
Further, according to the International Labour Organisation, the pandemic is expected to wipe out the equivalent of nearly 200 million jobs worldwide as more than 4/5 of workers around the world are now in countries affected by some measure of lockdown.
Workers in the informal sector - nearly 2/3 of the world’s labour force- are hard...
2020-04-091h 17