Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy After Eight Years: What Have We Learned So Far?

After eight years of programming, debates, and multisectoral discussions, it is an important moment for reflection on what we have learned so far from Canada’s FIAP. This event adds to a rich and detailed analysis of policy rhetoric by focussing on some of the practical experiences of organizations tasked with implementation of programming under the FIAP, as well as critical and analytical insights from scholars and practitioners.

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Canada’s Emerging Critical Mineral and Metal Diplomacy

This public panel kicks of a new research project at the University of Ottawa funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to explore the transnational dimension of Canada’s critical mineral strategy. Over three years, the project in close collaboration with industry, civil society and public stakeholders, will map and analyse Canada’s CMM diplomacy and domestic flanking measures with a view to produce new research, frameworks and actionable policy recommendations.

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CIPS Best Blog Award 2025: Public Voting Now Open

It’s time to vote for the winner of the CIPS Best Blog Award! The CIPS Best Blog Award is designed to recognize the best blog written by the CIPS community during the previous academic year. This is the sixth year that we will be giving out the award. The 2025 award will go to a blog that was written between June 2024 and May 2025.

Voting is now open and will close on Friday, September 26.

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CIPS Policy Report: Rethinking Canada’s Middle East Engagement in the Age of Trump’s Return

In 2022, we published a co-edited volume on Canada’s foreign and defence policies toward the Middle East (Juneau and Momani 2022), the first book on this topic in fifteen years. Since the publication of the 2022 book, much has changed in the Middle East. To take stock of what these seismic changes mean for Canada, we organized a workshop on 14 May 2025 on Canada and the Middle East at the University of Ottawa, hosted by CIPS.

Read the Policy Report edited by Thomas Juneau and Bessma Momani