http://taylorowen.com weblog and academic homepage of Taylor Owen Fri, 14 May 2010 20:47:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have the op-ed below on the Globe and Mail website. It's on why Canada might not be quite as quick to adopt UK-style coalition government as many have suggested. At the very least, we can't simply compare our political parties based on seat percentages - the ideology ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=320 Commenting on the British election is a bit of a fool’s game, as the variables change hourly, but here are a few quick thoughts based on recent events: 1. Gordon Brown is out, and formal Lib-Lab talks have begun. This was obviously the only choice Brown had. And it stems ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=307 I have another piece on election debates in today's National Post. This one goes a little further than the last, arguing that while the British debates were a sucess, that they happened at all was a matter of happenstance. The lesson to learn is if we want debates ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=304 I have an oped in today's National Post, (full unedited version below), which uses yesterday's British election debate as a starting point for a critique of our own, deeply flawed, televised debates. This is the opening salvo in a what we hope will be a reform of our debate ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=296 So, many people have asked what I thought of the thinkers conference. I was hesitant to write anything, as I am far from objective (I was involved in planning early iterations of the conference, some aspects of which made it into the final event), but for what it's worth, ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=287 Last week I had the opportunity to moderate an e-conference on Afghanistan for the CIC as part of their GPS (Global Positioning Strategy) process. There ended up being a lively and substantive conversation building on contributions from Mark Sedra, Major-General David Fraser, Sarah Jane Meharg, and Ben Rowswell. It is ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=284 If you have $200 burning a whole in your pocket, I have a chapter in what aside from the price, is a great new edited volume, put together by my friend (and at various times boss), Peter Burgess. It's the first in a new Routledge series on New Security ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=281 I have an article in the latest International Affairs, written with Mary Martin from LSE, on the future of the concept of Human Security in the UN and EU. We argue that the EU flirtations with the concept as a potential unified foreign policy narrative may signal a second ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=277 This year i have the absolute pleasure of teaching Intro to Peace and Conflict Studies at the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. While I am keenly aware of the history this course, and didn't want to radically change the syllabus, developed by some ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=267 In October, Emily Paddon and I wrapped up our DFAIT project on integrated peacebuilding (or 3D/Whole of Govn't) in Afghanistan, with a forum at the Liu Institute in Vancouver. The idea was to bring together some of Canada's leading voices on Afghanistan, both in person and via video conference, ... http://taylorowen.com/?p=265