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CAR’s Peace Accords and Rebel Warlords 0
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- 17 mai 2019
By Gino Vlavonou

After ten years in power, in 2013, Séléka rebels ousted the Central African Republic’s (CAR) President François Bozizé, after which Anti-Balaka militia groups rose up in response. The country has since been searching for peace, and seven …
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Is the Sky the Limit? Risk, Uncertainty, and Nature 0
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- 11 mai 2019
By Sylvain Maechler

The Living Planet Report 2018, published by the World Wild Fund for Nature in collaboration with the research division of the Zoological Society of London, recently valued nature at an estimated US$125 trillion.

The International Organization …
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What Makes a Market Economy?0
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- 11 mai 2019
By Alice Chessé

What makes a market economy? To many, the answer is simple: they are countries where the market is the main mechanism of resource allocation. Yet, this intuitive definition is at odds with the political impact of the …
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China, State Capitalism, and the Global Financial Order 0
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- 11 mai 2019
By Johannes Petry

In 1989, capital markets did not exist in China. Fast forward to 2018, China’s capital markets have become the second largest equity markets, second largest futures markets, and third largest bond markets in the world. More …
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What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide 0
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- 1 mai 2019
By Payam Akhavan and John Packer

Twenty-five years ago, as young UN human rights officers working together in Geneva, we witnessed how the world watched and did nothing as close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were exterminated. Brimming with idealism …
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Transforming the Global Refugee System 0
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- 2 avril 2019
In a recent CIPS blog — New Partnerships for Minister Monsef? — John Sinclair asks why supporting refugees is not a central goal of development co-operation when development issues have so much impact on refugees. Here, CIPS presents a short …
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“Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans 0
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- 5 février 2019
By Rosana Lezama Sanchez

Venezuelan emigrants always talk about how much they miss the country they left behind. I returned to Caracas in August of 2018, but I too miss Venezuela. The Venezuela that I grew up in was certainly …
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Canada Can’t Put Human Rights on the Back Burner in 2019 0
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- 19 décembre 2018
By Stéphanie Bacher

Over the past year, Canada has taken some important steps to promote and protect human rights abroad. However, the picture is not as rosy as often presented by the government, and Canada still has a long way …
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Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation 0
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- 18 décembre 2018
By Gabriel Bichet, Eve Cassavoy, Maddie Hunt, Jasmine Sebastian, and Emma Turner (ENG1100Q), edited by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr

In September, I took on teaching three sections of ENG1100: Workshop in Essay Writing, a required course for first-year students at the University …
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Competitive Financing: An Alternative Solution for Doing Business in China 0
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- 12 décembre 2018
By John Gruetzner

Canada is currently exploring the parameters permitted under USMCA Article 32.10 for realistic mechanisms to improve its commercial position in the Chinese market.

In the Joint Outcomes of the First Canada–China Economic and Strategic Dialogue, the Government …
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How Do You Make Donald Trump Laugh? Democrats Should Think About It.0
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- 23 novembre 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman

Many times in the past two years, people have told me they’ve never seen Donald Trump laugh.

So, what would it take?

A sure bet would be if — after the mid-term elections that bore very ominous …
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Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania 0
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- 16 novembre 2018
by Dane Degenstein

Tanzania has recently started a campaign to identify, track down, and arrest gay people, an unprecedented move in a previously more tolerant country. The regional governor of Dar es Salaam, Paul Makonda, announced a task force to …
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