• Security Review or Oversight: The Critical Difference

    Security Review or Oversight: The Critical Difference

    Published in the Globe and Mail, March 11, 2015 The government’s legislation to increase the powers of Canada’s security services has stimulated a necessary and welcome debate. One aspect of this debate concerns the question of what is the appropriate level of scrutiny of these services, and who should do it. This is an important

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  • International Aid Transparency: Cui Bono?

    International Aid Transparency: Cui Bono?

    By Catherine Weaver (University of Texas at Austin and Innovations for Peace and Development) and Josh Powell (Development Gateway and AidData, Washington, DC) Over the past decade, the international aid transparency movement has made considerable progress in opening the information spigots, firmly bringing the big data revolution to the nearly $200 billion (annual) global development

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  • What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why It Matters

    What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why It Matters

    When things go wrong in politics, the word ‘failure’ gets bandied around a lot. In recent weeks, we’ve heard about the failure of Canadian drug policy (as admitted by Stephen Harper), the failure of Canadian diplomatic efforts to get Barack Obama on board for the Keystone XL Pipeline (as declared by his critics), and the

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  • To Understand International Security, Consider Social Relations

    To Understand International Security, Consider Social Relations

    By Jarrod Hayes, School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech The world is a complex place. Social tides ebb and flow, diverse social systems interacting with agency to produce an ever-shifting mix of international challenges. This is all the more true in the post-Cold War global context, with the apparent stability of the rivalry between the

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