IPD was raised in a contribution by Senator Yuen Pau Woo to the Literary Review of Canada examining the state of Canada’s international affairs scholarship and Ottawa’s foreign policy vision.
The following is an excerpt from the full piece published in April 2022.
“A different sort of [Candian foreign policy] incubator can be found in think tanks and non-university research centres that focus on international issues. Here, there has been a renaissance of sorts, with the establishment of several foreign policy institutes in recent years, including the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, as well as the expansion of foreign policy topics among organizations that have traditionally focused on domestic issues, such as the Canada West Foundation. This shift has to do with the blurring of foreign and domestic policy questions as much as with a revival of CFP as such, but the discipline’s champions would surely do well to get on the bandwagon.”
