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Margot Charles

IRSAM at the UN (Part 2 of 2): When We Shook Our Heads

Margot Charles Mar 19, 2015
Part 1 of this series outlined the areas of convergence that a group of students from McGill University were able to observe upon attending varied events and speaking with different people at the Commission on the Status of Women '59 last…
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IRSAM at the UN (Part 1 of 2): When We Nodded Along

Margot Charles Mar 18, 2015
In the context of the UN Commission on the Status of Women '59, a group of students from McGill University had the chance last week to meet with some countries’ Permanent Missions and UN Agencies, and attend Side Events. We represented…
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Fox News: Letting You Decide If News Are True Since 1996

Margot Charles Feb 19, 2015
Fox News has been at the forefront of the American media for a few decades now. But, in the true French spirit, we’ve never really bothered to listen to what they had to say. Until of course, they started talking about us. That caught…
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The Journalist’s Dilemma: Game Theorizing Terror Journalism (Part 1 of 2)

Margot Charles Dec 11, 2014
This article is the beginning of a two part collaborative series on the journalism of terror. Part Two will be published next week by Bella Shraiman. This past year has seen the rise of the Islamic State, an Islamist anti-systemic…
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Genocide and R2P: Bittersweet Rememberance

Margot Charles Nov 16, 2014
Is the word "genocide" becoming a commodity on the market for political influence? On October 29th, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center (MHMC) held an event…
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Khmer Rouge Trials: The Rocky Road to Judicial Legitimacy

Margot Charles Oct 18, 2014
On August 7th 2014, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The two men were top-rank officials of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia (1975-1979),…
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Ho Chi Minh’s Dream at History’s End

Margot Charles Feb 17, 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, most people assume that, with exception of North Korea, the ex-Communist world has done just fine. The wave of economic liberalism that swept most of the remaining Communist states in the late stages of…
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Between the Bear and a New Rome: Ukraine’s Geopolitical Choice

Margot Charles Nov 27, 2013
On November 21st, the Ukrainian government announced it was halting negotiations over a free trade and economic development agreement with the European Union (EU). This was justified as necessary in the hopes of reestablishing normal…
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A New W.A.V.E: Iranian Foreign Policy, A Rejection of Realism

Margot Charles Oct 22, 2013
When realism is mentioned concerning international relations, the concept of a “zero-sum game” comes to mind. Theoretically, the structural realist paradigm emphasizes the need for power maximization: a state’s primary goal will be to…
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