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Harper Must Square the Provincial Circle on CETA
- 18 septembre 2013
Earlier this month, as he was leaving the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that there was still no deal on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the …
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R2P Down But Not Out After Libya and Syria
- 18 septembre 2013
By Gareth Evans
Published on the openDemocracy blog, September 9, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria, guest edited by David Petrasek.
The lack of consensus in the …
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With Syria, the US and Britan are Trapped in the Past
- 17 septembre 2013
Published in the Huffington Post Canada, September 16, 2013
William Faulkner’s most brilliant insight was his quip that « The past is never dead, it is not even past. » It is the past that is now befuddling the …
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R2P: Hindrance Not A Help in the Syrian Crisis
- 17 septembre 2013
Published on the openDemocracy blog September 13, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria guest edited by David Petrasek.
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine was developed to forge consensus …
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Syrians Suffer ‘Our’ Collective Failure
- 10 septembre 2013
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy
Published in the Globe and Mail, September 10, 2013
Almost a month has passed since the world learned that chemical weapons were used against the Syrian people. Apart from florid rhetoric, there still …
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Russia is a Beacon of Sanity About Syria
- 10 septembre 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, September 9, 2013
Russia-bashing and Putin-bashing, always fairly popular, have been much in fashion of late. Having lived for a while in Russia and before that the Soviet Union, as well as having devoted …
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The G20 at Five: More Technocratic and Less Visionary
- 10 septembre 2013
While media attention was focussed on Syria, the G20 issued its most detailed communiqué in its five-year history. It includes commitments to work together on a wide range of issues: strong and sustainable economic growth, unemployment and underemployment (particularly among …
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Is the Global Partnership Ready to Broaden Its Mandate?
- 4 septembre 2013
Partnership, especially global, has to be a good thing. But many saw the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation as a flawed last-minute compromise agreed at the 2011 Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea.
The question remains whether the …
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Syria and Obama’s Flawed Logic of Message-Sending
- 4 septembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 4, 2013
In announcing his plan last Saturday to put the prospect of Syrian intervention to a Congressional vote, President Obama posed a ringing question to his domestic and global audience: “What message …
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On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria
- 3 septembre 2013
Ian Hurd is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
The debate sparked by Syria’s chemical weapons attack includes at least three separate controversies: 1) which (if any) international legal instruments govern Syria’s use of chemical weapons; 2) …
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Indecent Proposals: Why the Fraser Institute is Wrong on Immigration
- 3 septembre 2013
Published September 9, 2013 on the Broadbent Blog
My best guess is that the Fraser Institute expects no one to read the report behind their newest sensationalist press release, in which they claim that the cost of immigrants to Canada …
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Prêt pour une autre grande saison au CÉPI
- 3 septembre 2013
Au CÉPI, nous avons travaillé fort pour préparer une excellente série d’événements à l’automne. Voici quelques faits saillants:
- La semaine prochaine, le CÉPI présentera des conférences animées par le célèbre journaliste pakistanais et auteur, Ahmed Rashid, et par
