Natalie Brender

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Natalie Brender
Publications Coordinator and Research Associate, CIPS

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Robert Cox on ‘The Decline of the West’ Revisited: Event Report 0
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- 3 avril 2012
On March 28, eminent York University professor Robert Cox delivered a CIPS talk on “‘The Decline of the West’ Revisited: Future World Order and a Dialogue of Civilizations”. He began by noting that the current economic crisis in Europe and …
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Exploring the Potentials of NGO-Corporate Partnerships for Development 0
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- 28 mars 2012
A recent article by Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter about new diplomatic initiatives at the U.S. State Department may induce an acute case of policy envy in many Canadian readers. Under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as Slaughter describes, U.S. diplomacy …
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Steve Coll’s Sobering Vision of Afghanistan’s Future: Event Report 0
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- 1 mars 2012
On February 27, Steve Coll (President of the New America Foundation and Pulitzer Prize-winning author) gave a strikingly clear and sobering analysis of problems afflicting the U.S. exit strategy from war in Afghanistan. His opening premise was a moral one: …
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Event Report: Peter Katzenstein on Civilizations in World Politics 0
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- 8 février 2012
On February 2, eminent international relations scholar Peter Katzenstein (of Cornell University) spoke to an overflowing CIPS audience on the theme “Beyond the West: Civilizations in World Politics”. Having edited three volumes on world civilizations and international politics, Katzenstein began …
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Let’s Look in the Right Place for Proof of Citizen Allegiance 0
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- 27 janvier 2012
Sometimes magical thinking pops up in the most unexpected places—like the recently-revived complaints about dual citizenship that have arisen around the candidacy of Thomas Mulcair (a dual citizen of Canada and France) for the NDP leadership. On Mulcair’s account, …
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Event Report: The Arab Spring, One Year Later 0
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- 24 janvier 2012
On January 18, a CIPS discussion panel brought together Omar Ashour (Exeter University and Brookings Doha Centre), Barak Barfi (New America Foundation) and Peter Jones (University of Ottawa) to take stock of events in countries affected by the ‘Arab Spring’ …
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CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes 0
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- 19 janvier 2012
A column in today’s Ottawa Citizen describes new levels of politicization, ineffectiveness and obfuscation at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). None of this is particularly surprising, since that agency’s misfortunes—largely due to its successive political masters—have been well-known for …
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Tap Immigrants to Help Shape Foreign Policy 0
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- 20 décembre 2011
Par Tom Axworthy, John Monahan et Natalie Brender

Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 20 décembre 2011.

As Canada’s focus on Libya shifts from the drama of regime change to the challenges of peace building and reconstruction, could the …
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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011 0
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- 16 décembre 2011
In my role as CIPS Blog editor, I’m happy to present what is probably not the first, and likely won’t be the last, ‘best-reads’ list that you’ll be seeing this year. However, it does have the virtue of being distinctive …
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R2P after Libya: A Cause Only the Morally Naïve Can Support?0
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- 11 novembre 2011
Contrarianism is always useful for making a splashy headline—and it was perhaps that impulse that led journalist and author David Rieff to publish a New York Times op-ed this week with the ominous title “R2P, R.I.P.”. “At first glance,” he …
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Diaspora Voters, Canadian Voters: What Roles?0
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- 11 octobre 2011
In a recent Globe and Mail column, Jeffrey Simpson notes that the Harper government’s pro-Israel stance is likely responsible for a shift of Jewish Canadians toward the Conservatives, who were supported by 52% of Jewish voters in the last election. …
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