📢 New blog by @justinmassie.bsky.social & @srdj.bsky.social - Canada Facing Trump’s US: Vassal or Sovereign? The forthcoming National Security Strategy will have to address a basic strategic dilemma last discussed a century or so ago: vassalization or resistance...🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/01/19/c...

Les collègues @justinmassie.bsky.social et @srdj.bsky.social résument admirablement le dilemme auquel le Canada fait face. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Dans ce texte d’opinion @justinmassie.bsky.social & moi proposons l’ouverture d’une nouvelle discussion sur la Stratégie de sécurité nationale www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Wondering what to make of Trump's threats to take Greenland? @mdrohan.bsky.social looks to history and an attempt by American colonists to capture the British colony of Canada, 250 years ago, using national security as the pretext. Read her blog here ➡️ www.cips-cepi.ca/2026/01/14/a...

Full house at CIPSS today for Prof. @srdj.bsky.social's talk titled "Five Eyes in the Age of Donald Trump." Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great discussion!

Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary of India, likes our book

@himself.bsky.social calls it like it is. The World of the Right (that my friends at University of Ottawa have written so eloquently about) appears to have taken over US strategy. open.substack.com/pub/programm...

📢Nouveau blog de Stephen Brown - La fin de la politique étrangère féministe du Canada Le premier ministre Mark Carney a porté un coup fatal à la politique étrangère féministe du Canada lors du sommet du G20 en Afrique du Sud le week-end dernier... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/11/28/t...

📣 Upcoming conference: 🔴 Day 1 will bring together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the role of local knowledge in international security governance. 🔴Day 2 will turn the discussion inward toward local knowledges in Canadian domestic security governance. >>> bit.ly/4858Cxq

📽️ Did you miss the event titled "‘Forgotten’ Crises and Implications for Women, Peace, and Security"? Watch it here ⬇️ 📽️ Avez-vous manqué l'événement intitulé « Crises « oubliées » et implications pour les femmes, la paix et la sécurité » ? Regardez-le ici ⬇️ youtu.be/r91nQH0VUZ8?...

Le 8 décembre, nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir @mdrohan.bsky.social, chercheuse principale à l’École supérieure d’études publiques et internationales et auteure du livre He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada. Pour en savoir plus >>> bit.ly/484Cf3g

Yesterday, we kicked off this year's FPLectures with a lecture by @srdj.bsky.social (globalright.ca) on "What is the West, anyway? The Anglosphere and the Radical Right". Thank you, Prof. Vucetic, for your insights and the stimulating debate! P.S. Lecture #2 will be on December 3.

📢New blog by @stephenbrown.bsky.social - The World Needs Less Canada? Does the world need less Canada? One might think so, reading last week’s federal budget... 🔗 www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/11/10/t...

📣 À partir de 14 h ! ⬇️ Rejoignez-nous pour une occasion unique de discuter de l’état actuel des relations entre le Canada et l’UE avec Charlotte Bué, chef de la division États-Unis et Canada au Service européen pour l’action extérieure à Bruxelles. >>> bit.ly/43hJVMF

Hey, Americans, want to hang out in Canada for a bit and see how the Canadian govt operates? The CFR has a fellowship to do exactly that 2026-27 International Affairs Fellowship in Canada. www.cfr.org/fellowships/... and Ottawa is a great place to hang out.

Mit dem neuen Studienjahr starten auch wieder unsere Foreign Policy Lab Lectures. Im Wintersemester haben wir 4 öffentliche Vorträge zu spannenden Themen. Den Auftakt macht @srdj.bsky.social am 11.11. 👇 #aussenpolitik #polsci #IR

"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online. You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq

New article with Bryan Mabee - and it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article with Bryan Mabee - and it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer que le lauréat du prix du meilleur blog CÉPI 2025 est Cesar Jaramillo pour son blog « The 2% NATO Defence Spending Target is Not Evidence-Based Policymaking » ! 🏆 Conformément aux souhaits de l'auteur, le CÉPI fait un don de 300 dollars à Project Ploughshares.

🧠Nouveau projet de recherche ➡️La diplomatie minérale stratégique du Canada : comment approvisionner le monde et réduire la dépendance excessive ?⛏️ @prleblond.bsky.social >>> bit.ly/4pLG9oe

➡️War Preparedness and Total Defence Drawing on research on the case of Sweden, this talk focuses on threat perceptions and framings by state institutions and representatives, and in particular the emergence of the ‘war frame’ in Swedish political rhetoric. Find out more >>> bit.ly/4gIQhKq

Have you voted for the CIPS Best Blog Award 2025? 🏅 Wondering who's on the shortlist? ➡️Why the Radical Right has Turned to the Teachings of an Italian Marxist Thinker By @srdj.bsky.social Check out the full shortlist >>> bit.ly/46jMjVf

📢New Policy Report - Rethinking Canada’s Middle East Engagement in the Age of Trump’s Return Edited by @thomasjuneau.bsky.social & @bmomani.bsky.social Tahani Mustafa, @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social, Mira Sucharov, Daniel B. Shapiro, Randa Slim, @kshaheen.bsky.social & Hamdi Malik >> bit.ly/4nDpxOl

On Five Eyes & Trump and also Burnham & Orwell journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📢 New blog by @halvardl.bsky.social & @bdecarvalho.bsky.social - Status and Resources in Polar Politics Possession remains the bedrock of polar politics. Denmark’s hold over Greenland is not justified by profits... but by the international weight it carries. 🔗https://bit.ly/3Ih0OzL

📣Nouvelle note par @prleblond.bsky.social et Mark Camilleri Cette note présente les principaux défis et recommandations stratégiques visant à garantir que l'accord de commerce numérique entre le Canada et l'UE favorise l'innovation, protège la vie privée et soutienne un commerce numérique inclusif

Be sure to register for next Monday's workshop! The first panel, taking place from 9:30am-10:30am, will discuss "What is the Future of the Multilateral System – and What Can Be Done?" Featuring Ole Jacob Sending, @smartel.bsky.social & Anthony Dworkin, chaired by Alexandra Gheciu > bit.ly/3V9kNmY

On Five Eyes & Trump and also Burnham & Orwell journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What's the West anyway? Towards an analysis of the European radical right www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YYNCH...

On the road again with @halvardl.bsky.social for the next story of the #benvard status saga. Ottawa tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting @srdj.bsky.social and friends again.

Join us on Monday at 12pm for an event titled "Pole Possessions in International Relations: Status and Geopolitics in the Scrambles for Polar Pre-eminence" Featuring @nupinytt.bsky.social researchers @halvardl.bsky.social & @bdecarvalho.bsky.social, & chaired by @srdj.bsky.social > bit.ly/3VpAZQU

Why, in spite of the inhospitality of the regions in question, do states desire pole possessions? In this talk, @nupinytt.bsky.social researchers @halvardl.bsky.social & ‪@bdecarvalho.bsky.social, will add a dimension which is missing from most current accounts of polar politics >>> bit.ly/3VpAZQU

Rita Abrahamsen @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social, Jean-François Drolet @jeanfrancoisdrolet.bsky.social, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu received an honourable mention for "World of the Right. Radical Conservatism and Global Order" (3/4)

For the nomination statement, please see below and the book can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... (4/4)

Les chercheurs du CÉPI @thomasjuneau.bsky.social et @srdj.bsky.social travaillent depuis plusieurs années sur un projet consacré à la politique de défense canadienne. Le volume 1 a été publié en 2020, le volume 2 en 2023, et le travail sur le volume 3 débutera dans les prochains mois !

The first forum on our book! Grateful to the reviewers for their engagements on Trumpism, civilizationism, feminism, managerialism, neoliberalism and more journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏆RI-IR Félicitations👋🏽👋🏽 @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social Drolet Williams Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social Narita Gheciu | Pingeot | Zeitz CITATIONS conta.cc/4iyPATt Winner👉🏽 June 4 TMU cpsaconference.ca/sessions_det... Jury @clarkkazak.bsky.social Bashovski @dgrondin.bsky.social

My review of the stellar book "World of the Right" by @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita and Alexandra Gheciu is out now in @iajournal.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Latest 'Global Right' publication: Jean-François Drolet and Michael Williams on the geopolitics of the European New Right in the EJIR journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A huge pleasure to welcome our great friend @srdj.bsky.social to @nupinytt.bsky.social again for a theory seminar on “The Anglosphere and the European Radical Right”! www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

Attention climate scholars seeking to leave the US: Next year the University of Ottawa will be seeking int'l candidates for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in "Climate and Societal Solutions" (broadly defined) They'll seek established scholars with global reach in this area (see below)...

Read this outstanding book by @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social and colleagues in prep for a forthcoming talk @edinburghpir.bsky.social. I learned so much - can't wait to hear them speak!

Rejoignez-nous demain pour accueillir Kevin McMillan, professeur de relations internationales à la l’École d’études politiques. Il tentera d'esquisser les grandes lignes de l'imaginaire politique de la ‘Big Tech Right’. Présidé par @srdj.bsky.social >>> bit.ly/4bN2RGe

Rejoignez-nous le 9 avril pour accueillir @seanaglennon.bsky.social, Anna Bogic & Marie-Christine Doran pour une conférence intitulée « Mouvements populistes de gauche et droits reproductifs des femmes : Une vue comparative des réformes récentes de la législation sur l’avortement » > bit.ly/3XWpimk

Next Wednesday, we look forward to welcoming Kevin McMillan for an event titled "Political Imaginaries of the Big Tech Right" Chaired by @srdj.bsky.social Learn more >>> bit.ly/4bKRRJk

Next Thursday, we're hosting a panel discussion to commemorate Refugee Rights Day in Canada! Featuring Diana Gallego, Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije & Aditya Rao. Moderated by @clarkkazak.bsky.social Register here >>> bit.ly/4bMrX8a

A week before the end of classes, we've agreed to add one last #FVEY piece to read and discuss www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united... Great stuff by @jamesrball.com

Colleagues at UOttawa have penned the following open letter to the Next PM, calling for a Royal Commission on Securing Canada’s Future. Please consider adding your name! uniweb.uottawa.ca/network/prof...