POST-TRUMP DIPLOMACY OUTLOOK

(Post)Colonial Diplomacy in Canada

Although the colonial ideology often masks the fact, diplomacy has been a major part of the colonial encounter. In Canada, diplomacy in its many guises has been carried out between the colonizing Europeans and EuroCanadians since first contact between them. This diplomacy can be immediately broken up into at least two distinct periods: pre-colonial and colonial diplomacy. The first is marked by...

Bilateral Diplomacy in the European Union: towards ‘post-modern’ patterns

Faculty outlook toward animal experiments in post-graduate medical education.

Animal Experiments (AE) are fundamental in the training of almost all pharmacology-related post-graduate courses.1 However, research studies have questioned their human applicability, toxicological utility, and validity. Other limitations like their exorbitant costs, difficulty in procurement of animals, strict regulations, and reservations about animal ethics by animal rights organizations and...

Does Security Trump Reliability?

D oes security trump reliability, or vice versa? In 2013, the Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hosted a panel discussion with representation from industry, academia, and government to answer this question. Neither the panelists nor anyone in the audience took a firm stance. Rather, the discussion meandered from the original ...

Why confessions trump innocence.

As illustrated by the story of Amanda Knox and many others wrongfully convicted, false confessions often trump factual innocence. Focusing on consequences, recent research suggests that confessions are powerfully persuasive as a matter of logic and common sense; that many false confessions contain richly detailed narratives and accurate crime facts that appear to betray guilty knowledge; and th...