By Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) and Srdjan Vucetic In the Maclean’s annual list of “99 stupid things the government did with your money”, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears as exhibit 46: Jet lagged: After dissing reports from the auditor general and Parliamentary Budget Office that warned the price of F-35 fighter jets would be far hi… Read More
Author Archives: Srdjan Vucetic
What’s New in the EU: the Euro Crisis and the 28th Member State
The European Union has never not been in crisis. Whether “this time is different”—and “this time” refers to ongoing iterations of the eurozone crisis—is a question that lends itself to all sorts of speculation along the lines of an abstract showdown between ‘economics’ and ‘politics’. For Timothy Garton-Ash, there is a “mismatch” between the two: “The ec… Read More
Tags: Croatia, European Union, financial crisis, international criminal court, Srdjan Vucetic
Bang Bang Bangalore: India’s Military Spending Spree
“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is one of my favourite episodes of The Simpsons. First aired in 2006, it is an important contribution to North American and global popular culture’s celebration of post-liberalization India that began in the 1990s. In it, Homer ends up being in charge of Mr. Burns’s freshly-outsourced nuclear power plant operation. Apart fro… Read More
Tags: aviation, defence, India, Srdjan Vucetic
Nuclear Power: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Extreme events have the ability to radically change political, moral, technical and other debates that shape what governments say and do. The effect of the 2011 Fukushima disaster on national energy strategies was so far-reaching that it led many to forecast the death of nuclear power. In Europe, for example, the governments of Germany, Italy, Belgium, a… Read More
Tags: Canada, international trade, nuclear energy, Srdjan Vucetic
My Ohioans did it again. In every election since 1964 (and almost every time since 1904), the winner of this state ended up taking the presidency – hence the clichés “America’s bellwether” and “as Ohio goes, so goes America”. Having spent six years of my life studying politics at The Ohio State University not so long ago, I can’t help but identify and sympath… Read More
Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Ohio, Srdjan Vucetic, U.S. elections, United States
Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the 2012 campaign that point to the same thing: the Republican Party and its presidential nominee are experie… Read More
Tags: Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Srdjan Vucetic, U.S. elections, United States
How many people do International Relations (IR) for a living in Canada’s Capital Region? To come up with an estimate, we counted full-time faculty who work in this semi-autonomous field of study at four universities in Ottawa and the neighbouring city of Gatineau: Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, St. Paul University and Université du Québ… Read More
Tags: international relations, Kevin McMillan, Ottawa-Gatineau, Srdjan Vucetic
The Future of Flying: A View from Farnborough
All eyes are turning to the London Olympics—but for people in the aerospace industry, Britain’s biggest event this summer is the Farnborough International Airshow. At this event (the 48th iteration of the biannual show run by Britain’s defense and aerospace trade group, ADS), I mingled among tens of thousands of trade delegates. The global aerospace ind… Read More
Tags: aviation, defence, F-35, Russia, Srdjan Vucetic, Syria
CIPS Launches Graduate Student Seminar Series in International Theory
Like its sister networks sponsored by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), the International Theory Network (ITN) aims to create opportunities for students share to their ideas and develop a research community. To that end, a group of students is organizing a series of themed graduate student brown bag seminars, which will cater to Ottawa… Read More
Special Journal Issue on “The F-35: Right for Canada?”
In 2001, the United States government selected Lockheed Martin (over Boeing) to lead in the development of the F-35, a fifth-generation fighter aircraft for use by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Along with several other U.S. allies, Canada jumped at the opportunity to become an official partner in this venture—a privilege it won by contributing fu… Read More
Tags: aerospace industry, Canadian defence policy, F-35, Srdjan Vucetic
