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Marijan, Branka - AI Missing Foreign Policy

Canada’s AI Strategy Is Missing a Foreign Policy

As the United States and China build AI strategies around strategic power, Canada’s ambitious new plan has a significant blind spot.

Branka Marijan

June 8, 2026

How Nigeria’s Fake News Industry Has Evolved to Embrace AI

Idayat Hassan

June 2, 2026

Canada’s Variable Geometry Starts in the Arctic

Wesley Wark

May 28, 2026

AI and Refugee Protection in the African Union: Smart Borders or Fortress Africa?

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

May 28, 2026

While Canada Deliberates, Its Allies Are Rewiring North Atlantic Defence

May 26, 2026

Stevenson_ Da Mota - Canada AI Coordination v3 -SR_jg

Canada Cannot Compete on AI Regulation, but It Can Coordinate It

June 5, 2026

Heffernan - Op-Ed - It's the Economy Stupid

Climate Disinformation Has a Market Incentive Problem

Andrew Heffernan

June 5, 2026

Rohozinski, Rafal - AI sovereignty download

Sovereignty by Download

Rafal Rohozinski

June 4, 2026

Events

Digital Economy

The Canadian Standard of Living, Productivity and Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada's Standard of Living

May 13, 2026 - 5:00 PM EDT (UTC–04:00)

May

Digital Economy

Canada’s Prosperity Depends on Turning Innovation into Productivity

Jun 16, 2026 - 5:00 PM EDT (UTC–04:00)

RSVP

Jun

Digital Economy

The Canadian Standard of Living, Productivity and Innovation: Actions to Improve Living Standards in Canada

Oct 7, 2026 - 5:00 PM EDT (UTC–04:00)

RSVP

Oct

Publications

Financial Governance

Regulating Compliance in a World of Decentralized Finance

May 14, 2026

Lessons from the 2025 G7 Cycle: Quantum, AI and Science Diplomacy

Michael P. A. Murphy

May 12, 2026

A Beast of a Different Kind: Malign Foreign Information Operations

Jordan Miller

May 7, 2026

Investment Treaties as Catalysts for Technology Transfer in Africa

Stanley U. Nweke-Eze

May 5, 2026

Highlights

Data Governance

The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data

Cybersecurity and Outer Space

The Ethics of Automated Warfare and Artificial Intelligence

Platform Governance

The Four Domains of Global Platform Governance

Situating Canada in a Changing World: Constructing a Modern and Prosperous Future

Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World

Transformative Technologies

Global Cooperation after COVID-19

National Security

Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis

Artificial Intelligence

Modern Conflict and Artificial Intelligence

Modernizing the World Trade Organization

National Security

Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust

Multimedia

Artificial Intelligence

The Middle Powers’ Stag Hunt

We can gain more together, but unity is not a prerequisite.

May 12, 2026

Canadian Productivity & Innovation Lecture Series | Ricardo Hausmann

April 24, 2026

Rethinking Global Value Chains: Opportunities for Canada and India

S. Yash Kalash

February 12, 2026

Cybersecurity

Why Africa Should Lead on Governing Global Tech Giants

Andrew Heffernan

February 23, 2026

National Security

Canada’s New Era of Defence Spending: From Peace Dividend to Defence Dividend

December 11, 2025

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