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Op-Ed: Pakistan’s Real Security Crisis Is at Home

Pakistan has spent decades worrying about threats beyond its borders. Today, one of the gravest dangers to its future lies much closer to home: within Pakistan itself. It is visible
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A New Framework, Familiar Priorities: Canada’s 2026 National Security Strategy

On October 29, the Government of Canada released its first National Security Policy (NSP) since 2004. The 2004 policy was a 60-page document that proposed a new, integrated national security
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Pompeii Would Not be News: How the Acceleration of Disastrous Climate Events is Changing our Understanding of Human Cost

Troubling is the finding that the regularity of “once-in-a-lifetime” events may be desensitizing rather than activating human interest.
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Rule-Maker or Rule-Taker? What an “Ever Closer Association” Means for Canada’s AI Firms

Without its own AI law, Canada risks following EU standards it did not help write, as it already does on privacy.
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Naming Is Not Proving: Why Hybrid Threats Need Due Diligence

The ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine and rise of hybrid incidents across Europe have revived fears of a larger war in which NATO and Russia would confront each other directly.
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Why superpower trade deals put middle powers at risk

U.S.–China trade bargains risk sidelining middle powers like Canada, making diversified markets and stronger cooperation essential to protecting their economic interests and political autonomy.
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BRICS in New Delhi: The Promise and Limits of India’s Multi-Alignent Foreign Policy

The 2026 BRICS summit on September 12-13th in New Delhi brought together its members during a particularly volatile and consequential moment for the increasingly fragmented multipolar global order.
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War on Film in 2026 Israel-Hezbollah War

Israel and Hezbollah use combat footage to project military capability, justify violence and claim legitimacy, turning images of war into instruments of digital persuasion.
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Many Partners, Few Options in Saudi Arabia’s Security Paradox

Saudi Arabia’s struggle to counter Houthi attacks exposes the gap between substantial military spending, diversified security partnerships and dependable protection.
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Chinese Experts on China-U.S. Strategic Stability and What It Means for Canada

Chinese experts’ assessments of China–U.S. strategic stability suggest a framework for managing persistent competition, potentially giving Canada greater predictability in pursuing its own diplomatic and economic interests.
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Reconciling the Past, Securing the Future: Greenland’s Changing Security Environment

As US pressure on Greenland intensifies, addressing Denmark’s colonial legacy could strengthen trust, bolster resilience, and help Greenlanders determine their own political future.
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Be More Baltic: Edward Lucas on Resilience of the Baltic States

Edward Lucas challenges the image of the Baltics as Europe’s next war zone, arguing that their resilience, innovation and economic potential offer lessons the West is overlooking.
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Surveillance by Design — How Delhi Policed a Student Protest

Delhi’s use of facial recognition at student protests raises a troubling question: what remains of the freedom to assemble when attendance can become a lasting police record?
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The AfD’s Electoral Success in Eastern Germany: An Analysis of its Underlying Factors

The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt puts Germany’s east–west divide in focus, raising questions about how economic inequality, demographic imbalances and emotional political messaging shape its appeal.
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Op-Ed: Canadian Companies Build Smelters in the Congo. Why Not in Nunavut?

Canada is funding Arctic roads to unlock Nunavut's zinc and copper, yet companies have no plans to process those minerals at home or to guarantee Inuit ownership of the deposits.
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Op-Ed: Manufactured Borderlands: Mexico as an Extension of the U.S. Border

Sabine Caplin examines border externalization through Mexico and Türkiye, and its consequences for migrants, sovereignty, and host communities.
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China Is Changing Latin America—The United States Needs to Pay Attention

Sofia Perez examines how China’s expanding economic presence is reshaping Latin America’s international partnerships. She explores what the United States must offer to remain a competitive partner in the region.
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Analysis: Russia’s Alternative Framework for Conflict Management in Africa’s Sahel

As Russia expands its security partnerships in the Sahel, Shushan Grigoryan examines how Moscow’s approach differs from France’s and what this shift means for sovereignty, regional security and European influence.
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Research Ethics for Sustainability: From Ethical Principles to Collective Action

On 10 September 2026, Tessera Institute for Global Affairs hosted an online workshop on Research Ethics for Sustainability in collaboration with the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA).
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Analytical brief: India’s Relationship with West Asia

India’s expanding partnerships with rival powers across West Asia reveal both the opportunities of multialignment and the limits of strategic autonomy in protecting its energy, trade, and security interests.
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Paper Sovereignty: Why a New Defense Bank Won’t Solve Canada’s Arctic Vulnerability

Canada’s push to diversify defence partnerships and financing will mean little for Arctic sovereignty unless Ottawa can turn procurement plans into deployable military capability.
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Analysis: The Regionalization of Political Order in The Horn of Africa

From strategic ports to corridors, political order in the Horn of Africa is being reorganized through networks of states, external powers and local actors that conventional theories struggle to capture.
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Blood on the Algorithms: How Combat Footage Shapes the Propaganda of the Iran-US War

From polished US strike montages to Iran’s missile-and-drone videos, both sides are turning combat footage into evidence for competing claims of military dominance.
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Below the Threshold: What the Baltic States Can Teach NATO About Countering Russia

While the West studies Ukraine's war for lessons, the Baltic states have spent two decades learning how to counter Russia without one.
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How China Interprets Wang Yi’s Visit to Canada and Canada’s China Policy

Wang Yi's May 2026 visit to Ottawa was billed as a reset. But comparing China's official statements with its policy scholars reveals how Beijing really reads Canada's shift.
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Op-Ed: Africa is the Off-Ramp Middle Powers Need

Since the United States has indicated a desire to protect its domestic economy and partially withdraw from the post-World War II trading system, middle powers are scrambling to adjust.
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Op-Ed by Mani Nouri: From Rescue Mission to What, Exactly? Part II

Mr. Nouri argues that the "rescue mission" framing of the 2025 war on Iran was a deliberately capacious narrative serving several aims as Washington and Jerusalem pursued divergent objectives.
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Op-Ed: Mani Nouri, PhD(c), discussed the popular uprising in Iran

It appears the Iran war was sold as a humanitarian liberation of the Iranian people, but has steadily collapsed into a transactional negotiation with the surviving regime.
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Issue Brief by Taylor Stetka: The Growing Need for Canadian Arctic Maritime Security

Canada’s Arctic is facing growing maritime security pressures as climate change reduces sea-ice coverage, expands vessel access, and exposes gaps in surveillance and infrastructure.
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Conversation with Dr. Alaa Al-Aridi: The U.S.-Israeli War with Iran, Article 2(4), and the Strain on International Law

In this interview, Dan Prasuhn, Research Associate at Tessera, speaks with Dr. Alaa Al-Aridi, Professor of International Law, about the current U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the wider regional escalation.
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Analysis with Patrick Green, MSc: Corruption and Coercion – Why Myanmar’s Civil War Persists

With Myanmar’s final election phase ending on January 26, 2026, this report argues that lasting stability depends less on the electoral process than on curbing the military’s corrupt revenue networks.
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Conversations with Dr. Catherine Moez: An Interview

Catherine Moez is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leicester and King’s College London, currently working on a project on long-run public opinion on immigration in Europe. Previously (2024-2025),

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Op-Eds with Tessera: Contrasting the Invasions of Panama and Venezuela under International Law

This op-ed compares the U.S. invasions of Panama and Venezuela to argue that both expose a recurring willingness to override international law in the name of national interest. It suggests
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Analysis with Mani Nouri, PhD(c): No Going Back – Iran’s 2026 Revolutionary Uprising

In this article, Mani Nouri examines the unfolding unrest in Iran as a revolutionary moment rather than a conventional protest movement. He argues that the convergence of mass popular anger,
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Briefings with Tessera: “In the Nuclear Age, Failure Cannot be Repeated”- Jeffrey Sachs Warns the Security Council of Global Anarchy

"The UN was created to place international law above anarchy... If the kidnapping of a Head of State and the bombing of a sovereign country are tolerated, the message is
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Analysis with PhD(c) Justinas Stankus: The Strategic Imperative for Western Engagement with Myanmar’s Democratic Forces

Myanmar's sovereignty has been fundamentally fragmented since the military coup of February 2021, leading to a complex multi-polar conflict and Balkanization of the country along ethnic and religious lines. While
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Conversations with Dr. Salam Alsaadi: An Interview

A Raphael Morrison Dorman Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Salam Alsaadi holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. He focuses on authoritarianism

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