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It was a little ‘head spinning’ for sure. I had in my previous Post, “Responding to and Managing ‘America First’”, focused my attention in part on the Canadian federal government’s…

It is not obvious what the responses should be. I am talking about responses to President Trump’s policymaking and his frequent and loud declarations. It is difficult because we don’t…

Back in August I penned a Substack Post in Alan’s Newsletter titled, Turning Back to Middle Powers - The Contrasting Character of Middle Powers?. It is probably worthwhile to highlight…

Well, okay, one final note as we view the UN80 anniversary, the General Assembly High-level Week, a Climate Summit, all in the rearview mirror. I guess I start with the…

This week it was all about the multilateral institutions - namely the UN - but it was also about the key multilateral proponent, or at least it was - the…

So, we are rolling into an important time for multilateral and regionally strategic action, though realistically it always is an important time. On the multilateral front, notably there is the…

So this week’s Post will be a wee bit truncated. Why you ask? Well, I am with many other political science and international relations colleagues in Vancouver for the APSA…

It was a confusing past couple of weeks if you were trying to understand the ‘emerging’ global order. Maybe the confusion was best captured by colleague Daniel W Drezner at…

Well, it is kinda the end of the summer - now that we have the Labor Day weekend upon us. Wow! It seemed reasonable to try to assess where we…

I ended a recent Post - “Can we foresee Middle Power Action in a World of Geopolitical Tensions?” indicating I wanted to examine further Middle Powers (MP) and Middle Power…