Update from Roland
Dear friends and colleagues, My stint as a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister will be ending soon. It has been an extraordinary...
The Changing Nature of Global Power
Panel discussion at the 2016 Ottawa Forum.
Conversation with Fareed Zakaria
Roland Paris interviews Fareed Zakaria at the Ottawa Forum
A Transforming World
Introductory chapter in Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, eds., The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies
The World Won't Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies
Co-edited with Taylor Owen; University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Imagining a More Ambitious Canada
Concluding chapter in Roland Paris and Taylor Owen, eds., The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies
Global Governance and Power Politics: Back to Basics
Ethics and International Affairs 29:4 (Winter 2015), pp. 407-418.
Transition Memos Show Foreign Ministry Is Doing Its Job
CIPS Blog A series of foreign ministry memos, leaked to the media in recent days, offer an unflattering assessment of Canada’s declining...
Foreign Affairs officials urge new directions for Canada in ‘secret’ transition memo
Quoted in: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/29/foreign-affairs-officials-urge-new-directions-for-canada-in-secret-transition-m...
Countries asked to step up peacekeeping efforts
Quoted in: http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/09/28/countries-asked-to-step-up-peacekeeping-efforts/
It's time for Canada to stop sleepwalking across the global stage
Quoted in: https://ipolitics.ca/2015/09/27/its-time-for-canada-to-stop-sleepwalking-across-the-global-stage/
Canada’s Military Spending Is Now Less than Half of NATO’s Target
CIPS Blog Last year I blogged about the decline in Canadian military spending as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The most...
States of Mind: The Role of Governance Schemas in Foreign-Imposed Regime Change
International Relations 29:2 (2015), 139-76.
Canada bars Russia from meeting about weapons of mass destruction
Quoted in: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/canada-bars-russia-from-meeting-about-weapons-of-mass-destructionb
The Legacy of Canada's Afghanistan Mission
In Jack Cunningham & William Maley, eds., Australia and Canada in Afghanistan: Perspectives on a Mission (Dundurn, 2015), pp. 244-60.