Sabine Nölke

Western Academy Visiting Fellow

Sabine Nölke has had over 30 years of experience as a leading voice in matters of international peace and security, armed conflict, non-proliferation and disarmament, human rights, terrorism, and international and transnational crime.

She has provided legal and policy advice to the Government of Canada on issues ranging from international humanitarian law, to reparations, to genocide, and the threat and use of weapons of mass destruction, including serving as co-counsel for Canada before the International Court of Justice, on Legality of the Use of Force (Serbia v. Canada et al.). She has served as Director of the United Nations, Human Rights, and Economic Law division (2007) and as Canada’s Ambassador to the Netherlands (2015-2019).

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Like dictators before him, Trump threatens international peace and security

How can we situate Donald Trump’s threats of Canadian annexation in the language of international law and state-to-state relations? An article by Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke on the historical context for Trump’s rhetoric and the necessary 21st-century vocabulary with which to respond and shape the public discourse.

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