The cutting-edge, critically acclaimed, bilingual (English and French) print version of Global Brief publishes 4 times per year. Each issue consists of a wide and original array of first-class, short essays (Features); synoptic briefings (One Pager); follow-up analyses or enquiries (Query); in-theatre reports (In Situ); point-counterpoint, head-to-head debates (Nez à Nez), kinetic interviews (Tête
à Tête); surveys of top global thinkers on key questions (The Definition) and on the world to come (Strategic Futures); and, finally, levity through mock dialogues of a given government’s Cabinet Room, as well as a reflective Epigram. Examples of top writers contributing to Global Brief include: Lloyd Axworthy, President of the University of Winnipeg and former Canadian foreign minister; Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-General and Egyptian foreign minister; Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia; Shashi Tharoor, former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs; John Polanyi, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry; Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General of the Francophonie and former President and Prime Minister of Senegal; Bejamin B. Ferencz, former Nuremberg Prosecutor; General Roméo Dallaire, Canadian Senator; Hugh Segal, Canadian Senator and former President of the Institute of Public Policy and Research; Jan Egeland, Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner; Pierre Pettigrew, former Canadian foreign minister; Fatoumata Dembele Diarra, Vice-President of the International Criminal Court; John E. McLaughlin, former head of the CIA; Simon Tay, Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs; John Kay, Financial Times columnist; Alvaro de Soto, former UN Under-Secretary-General; Louise Fréchette, former UN Deputy Secretary-General; Alexander Downer, former Australian foreign minister; John de Chastelain, chairman of the Commission on Decommissioning in Northern Ireland; Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University; Andrew Cohen, author and intellectual; Roland Paris, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa; Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Hubert Védrine, former French foreign minister; Fareed Zakaria, of CNN and Time; Gwynne Dyer, writer; Christopher Alexander, former UN Deputy Special Representative to Afghanistan and former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan; James Orbinski, former President of Médecins Sans Frontières; Bernard Landry, former Premier of Quebec; Margaret MacMillan, historian and Warden of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford; Norman Spector, former Canadian prime ministerial chief of staff; John W. McArthur, CEO of Millennium Promise; Philippe Kirsch, former President of the International Criminal Court; Mehrangiz Kar, award-winning women’s rights activist; Trita Parsi, Founder and President of the Iranian-American Council; Reza Azlan, award-winning author; Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Reuters; Ramesh Thakur, former UN Assistant Secretary-General; Gérard Bouchard, Co-Chair of the (Quebec) Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences; Michael Bryant, former Minister of Economic Development and Attorney-General of Ontario, Canada; Ngaire Woods, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford; and many others. The Global Brief website, www.globalbrief.ca, builds on the content of the physical magazine with regular web exclusives (in English and French), video interviews, Facebook, Twitter and, quite uniquely, multilingual and interactive expert analytical blogs (GB Geo-Blogs) to encourage high-level world affairs debates and commentary beyond conventional global linguistic barriers: in English, French, Russian, Mandarin, German, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Dari and Turkish; with Hebrew and Hindi coming very shortly. These blogs bring many thousands of otherwise ‘untouchable’ readers from around the planet – from mother countries and diasporic communities alike – to www.globalbrief.ca. Global Brief’s target readership, in print and online, is two-fold: first, leaders and key decision-makers around the world in politics and government, business, academia, journalism, the NGO community and indeed in international diasporic communities; and second, future global leaders across these same sectors. Distribution of the print version of Global Brief includes in-store sales, an ever-growing complement of paid subscribers, as well as direct-mailout of the magazine to between 4,000 and 6,000 select readers (in Canada and around the world) from the above two demographics, based on a controlled-circulation model. Visitation to the www.globalbrief.ca, an integral analogue of, and supplement to, the print magazine, is global and frequent—and, by design, is certainly not limited to the English-speaking world.
