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From the GB archives 🗃 circa 2015: Tête-à-Tête with #NaviPillay, former @UN High Commissioner for #HumanRights (2008-2014) & #ICC judge 👇globalbrief.ca/2014/11/right…
Rights Fights, Flavours and Futures | Global Brief Magazine

Rights Fights, Flavours and Futures | Global Brief Magazine

GB looks ahead to the debates, bottlenecks and pitfalls, and looks at defenders and discontents, in the next decade’s struggles for human dignity GB: Is there, at the start of this new century, an...

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📽️ 21CQ President @IrvinStudin sits down with @CBC @CBCNews to discuss #Canada's 🇨🇦 growing absenteeism crisis👇 cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…
The Institute for 21st Century Questions' Irvin Studin discusses...

The Institute for 21st Century Questions' Irvin Studin discusses...

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🗞️ 21CQ President @IrvinStudin writes for @corim_mcfr: "The #Carney Doctrine: Unhappy Vassal or Future Great Power?" Read more 👇 blogue.corim.qc.ca/the-carne…
The Carney Doctrine: Unhappy Vassal or Future Great Power? – CORIM

The Carney Doctrine: Unhappy Vassal or Future Great Power? – CORIM

Un an après son élection à la tête du pays, Mark Carney mène une politique étrangère audacieuse afin d’en diversifier les relations et les partenaires. La tâche

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"International law cannot be invoked a la carte nor enforced with expedient selectivity." — #AJOpinion by Fatou Bensouda and Sam Sasan Shoamanesh ⤵️ aje.news/xa1zfo
Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Should we permit the foundations of international law to erode, the world would slip once more into anarchy and chaos.

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🗞️ 21CQ VP Sam Sasan Shoamanesh & former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda team up for this @AJEnglish opinion piece to make a principled case: "Why #internationallaw is still the world’s best defence.” Read more👇aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Should we permit the foundations of international law to erode, the world would slip once more into anarchy and chaos.

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🗞️ 21CQ President @IrvinStudin writes for @globeandmail: "#Canada 🇨🇦 is not a middle power - it’s a future great #power". Read more 👇 theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Opinion: Canada is not a middle power – it’s a future great power

Opinion: Canada is not a middle power – it’s a future great power

Carney’s job now is to build a Canada that’s not a vassal to the United States

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🗞️ 21CQ President @IrvinStudin writes for @Telegraph: "#Canada 🇨🇦 will not become Trump's vassal state - it must fiercely defend itself". Read more 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02…

Canada will not become Trump’s vassal state – it must fiercely defend itself

Carney’s vision is not ambitious enough. Canada should aspire to be a world power

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21CQ President @IrvinStudin sits down with @CBC @CBCNews to discuss #Trump's new tariff and #Arctic threats 👇cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…
Irvin Studin comments on Trump's new tariff and Arctic threats

Irvin Studin comments on Trump's new tariff and Arctic threats

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21CQ President @IrvinStudin sits down with @CBC @CBCNews to discuss the recent #US strikes on #Venezuela and its implications for 🇨🇦 #Canada👇 cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…
Institute for 21st Century Questions' Irvin Studin on Canadian...

Institute for 21st Century Questions' Irvin Studin on Canadian...

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Replying to @i21CQ @BenFerencz @PugwashConfs @nuclearban @unodavienna @ODA_Geneva @iaeaorg
💬 Dr. Hussain Al-Shahristani, President of @PugwashConfs: "The precedent of resorting to force rather than engagement may embolden other regional actors to seek alternative, non-transparent #nuclear futures." Read more 👇i21cq.com/what-does-a-west-a… #NuclearSecurity #LawNotWar
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Replying to @i21CQ @BenFerencz @PugwashConfs @nuclearban @unodavienna @ODA_Geneva @iaeaorg
💬Dr. Hussain Al-Shahristani, President of @PugwashConfs & frmr Dep. PM for Energy Affairs in #Iraq: "This latest crisis must serve as a wake-up call to regional states and the international community writ large." Read more 👇i21cq.com/what-does-a-west-a… #regionaldialogue #diplomacy
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💬 Dr. Hussain Al-Shahristani, President of @PugwashConfs & former Dep. Prime Minister for Energy Affairs in #Iraq on the recent attacks on #Iran & consequences for the #NPT regime & regional security. Read more 👇#regionaldialogue #diplomacy #LawNotWar i21cq.com/what-does-a-west-a…
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OPINION: Canadian's Nobel Peace Prize nod serves up lessons for world torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
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🚨Canada's 🇨🇦 Dr. @IrvinStudin & GB Publisher & EIC nominated for the #NobelPeacePrize for heroic work on #pandemic-period #worldwide🌍#education catastrophe. Read more via @TheTorontoSun 👇torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
OPINION: Canadian's Nobel Peace Prize nod serves up lessons for world

OPINION: Canadian's Nobel Peace Prize nod serves up lessons for world

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The latest GB Geo-Blog from GB Senior Editor @alex_garcimagos Enjoy your Brief! (in #Spanish /en #español) 👇globalbrief.ca/2025/05/votar…
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The latest GB Geo-Blog from GB Senior Editor @alex_garcimagos Enjoy your Brief! (in #Spanish /en #español) 👇globalbrief.ca/2025/05/la-re…
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From the archives 🗃: "#Canada’s 🇨🇦 Four-Point Game, Part II?" by GB Editor-in-Chief & Publisher @IrvinStudin globalbrief.ca/2017/11/canad…
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📽️ 21CQ President @IrvinStudin interviewed on @CBCNews Canada Tonight on #Trump's annexation threats towards #Canada 🇨🇦 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=iwK_FLfj…
How serious is Trump about absorbing Canada, Greenland? | Canada Tonight

How serious is Trump about absorbing Canada, Greenland? | Canada Tonight

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a...

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🗨️ The scenario that I anticipate for #Syria is what happened to #Libya: a short period of relative calm (do not call it ‘peace’), soon to be followed by a complex & confused, multidimensional, sectarian struggle [...]" - Bilahari Kausikan, former @MEI_NUS Chairman. Read more 👇
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Latest GB Geo-Blog by Bilahari Kausikan, former Chairman of the @MEI_NUS & Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of #Singapore: "What's Next for #Syria?" 👇globalbrief.ca/2024/12/syria…
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Latest GB Geo-Blog by Bilahari Kausikan, former Chairman of the @MEI_NUS & Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of #Singapore: "What's Next for #Syria?" 👇globalbrief.ca/2024/12/syria…
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