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Robin Collins
A selection of articles, commentaries, letters and reviews

Updated JANUARY 8, 2024

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2023
Indian Residential Schools: Assimilation or Genocide? (Peace Magazine, Winter 2023) download
Did NATO Actions Contribute to Putin's Decision to Invade? Peace Magazine Summer 2023, download
Might the Ukraine Conflict Spark a Nuclear War? Science for Peace podcast, June 15, 2023
How Bad is the Military’s Carbon Problem? Huge or a Rounding Error? Peace Magazine Spring 2023, download
Book Review: Effective Conservation/Jimenez in Canadian Field-Naturalist 2023, download
Winter is Coming in Ukraine: Are There Prospects for Peace? (R.Collins and S. Lemieux) in The Hill Times, January 5, 2023, download
Tree Planting Opportunities (R. Collins and B. Bhaneja) in Jan/Mar 2023 Peace Magazine
Racism is Real, But is "Race"? in Jan/Mar 2023 Peace Magazine

2022
Cuban Missile Crisis Provides 60 Years of Lessons (R. Collins and S. Lemieux), October 13, 2022: online (paywall); download

Feminist Foreign Policy or Eco-Humanism, Oct-Dec 2022 Peace Magazine: online; download
in SAFS newsletter (Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship): A Walk on the Wild Side of Facebook U: A Response to Bryant and Larsen's Review of My Choice

Related: on 2020-21 flu season: "National Influenza Annual Report, Canada, 2020-2021, in the global context" Nwosu et al.

Book Review: One Trillion Trees/Fred Pearce in Canadian Field-Naturalist 2022, Vol 136: 1 (2022)
The Case of Frances Widdowson, July-Sept 2022 Peace Magazine
Are We Closer to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons With the TPNW? Jan-March 2022 Peace Magazine
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Your Slogans Tell a Story, April-June 2022 Peace Magazine

2021
Book Review: Cynical Theories; Review within Peace Magazine, April 2021

2020
Peacekeeping Works: The UN Can Help End Civil Wars (co-authored with Walter Dorn, published in International Journal June 2020)

2019
What We Talk About When We Talk About NATO: language for civil society to use regarding NATO, a Group of 78 working group how-to guide, 2019

2018
NATO: Canada In or Out? (Presentation to Canadian Pugwash Group 2018 Research Roundtable)
The Caricaturing of UN Peacekeeping (a reply to Peter MacKay) in Policy Options February 2018
Who's More Dangerous: A Nuclear Kim or an Erratic Trump? in Peace Magazine, Jan-Mar 2018
2016
Does the UN Charter Protect Human Rights? [Mondial March 2016 version here, condensed]
2015
Responsibility to Protect and the Anti-interventionists, in ePlomat, April 2015
Improving R2P: Some Modest Proposals, in ePlomat, April 2015
2014
Every Casualty of Armed Conflict Counts, Mondial Dec 2014
2013
Shouldn't UNEPS (UN Emergency Peace Service) Advocacy Be Front and Centre? (in Global Policy online journal, November 2013)
2012
Our Military's Role: Peackeepers? War-makers? (Review of Richler book: What We Talk About When We Talk About War, in Mondial, June 2012)
2011
Cluster Munitions Treaty: A History (Borrie review), Mondial, December 2011
Security Without Nuclear Weapons (review of  Robert Green Book, Mondial May 2011)
Thinking About Libya, R2P and Regime Change, A WFMC Lessons Learned Discussion Paper, October 2011; on RC page
2009
Putting Nuclear Fuel Cycle into a Multilateral Framework (Mondial, October 2009)
Canada's Disarmament and Security Policies: Common Themes Over Six Decades
2007
The Antipersonnel Landmine Treaty After Ten Years: A Precursor? Mondial December 2007
2006
Nuclear Non-proliferation and Iran (for Ploughshares Ottawa), October 24, 2006
Tied Campaigns: Cluster Munitions, Explosive Remnants of War and Anti-personnel Landmines, JMA August 2006
related: Mines Action Canada position paper on cluster bombs moratorium (revision 5), March 2001
2005
Unacceptable Risk: Launch on Warning Policy, presentation to Canadian Pugwash Group/S4P Oct 2005
Global Partnership Success is a Stepping Stone to NPT Disarmament Obligations, March 2005
2004
"Blix, not Bombs": Variance in Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat Assessments, April 2004 (pdf)
How Sophisticated is Public Opinion? April 2004 (pdf)
The Dubious Correspondence of U.S. Defence Spending Policy and Public Opinion, March 2004 (pdf)
Canada's "Yes":Canadian Policy Streams and Nuclear Weapons in NATO, January 2004 (pdf file)
2003
Assessing Deference to Authority in Canada and the United States, August 2003 (pdf)
Iraq War 2003: Coalition Intervention into Iraq was Illegal and Illegimate (Communique, page 6, pdf)
Privatization in New Public Management: Assessing its Role and Reception in Tanzania, March 2003
2002
Truth and Consequences: Confronting Perpetrators of Political Repression and Enabling Reconciliation, December 2002
Coercion and Obedience in Political Repression, October 2002
The Emerging Campaign Against Cluster Bombs and Explosive Remnants of War, Ploughshares Monitor, Autumn 2002
Alternative Defence: Transforming Global Security, PEN July-August 2002
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Canada: A Status Report, April 2002
2001
Nato and the Bomb, by Erika Simpson (book review,PEN December 2001) bad link
Peace Community Responses to Terrorism, presentation to NATO-PA Cdn. delegates, October 5, 2001
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: What's Security Got to do With it? Mondial, July 2001 [fix link]
2000
Canada: Peacemaker or Warmaker? PEN July-August 2000;
(above was a response to this item; Sanders response to mine here) bad link
Iron Giant Review (with Brendan Collins) PEN, Feb2000 bad link
1999
Gunder Frank and the External Factor in Southern Development
Choice and Necessity: Influences on the Soviet Approach to Development, Dec1999
Limits of Postmodernism in Addressing Problems of Development in the South, Nov.99
NATO's Pyrrhic Victory PEN, Jul-Aug99 bad link
The Y2K Opportunity: Time to Stand-down Nuclear Weapons, PEN April99 (Robin Collins and Alan Phillips)
Possibilities for No First Use Advocacy by Canada? Mar99
Book review: To Walk Without Fear/Knight Errant 1999 (Books in Canada Review)
1998
Landmine Treaty: Lessons for NGOs 1998
pre-1998
Nuclear Energy: Sober Second Thoughts, PEN July-Aug97 bad link
Time for Canada to Question NATO Nuclear Policy, PEN July-Aug97 bad link
Is a Landmine Ban Treaty Imminent? PEN Oct96 bad link
The Tobin Tax as Applied to Landmines, a UNAC-NCRB contribution to landmine campaign Oct 96
Letter: Colourblind Talk, PEN June93 bad link
Remembering Canada's Role in Vietnam, PEN November92 bad link
Sanctions Debate, Collins PEN, Sept92 (in response to: Camfield) bad link
Could Sanctions Have Worked? PEN June1992 bad link
The Return of Ethnic Nationalism PEN May 1992 bad link