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Arunachal Pradesh: Meeting China’s Claim in the Eastern Himalayas
- 20 mars 2012
Last week, Chief Minister Nabam Tuki of the Northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh led a delegation to Canada. He attended the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce in Toronto and participated in the Brand India Expo in Ottawa. Meeting prospective …
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Scars of War Remain in Uganda
- 17 mars 2012
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 13 mars 2012
By coincidence, I was in Pader, northern Uganda, last week when the video about the murderous warlord Joseph Kony, called Kony 2012, went viral. The video has …
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Forward — to the Past? Re-thinking a Human Rights Museum
- 15 mars 2012
Note du CÉPI No.17, mars 2012.
Par DAVID PETRASEK, École supérieure d’affaires publiques et internationales.- Le Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne s’est fixé un objectif clair: équiper les visiteurs et les mettre au défi de promouvoir
Du financement public par l’UEMOA et un « Buy West African Act » … pourquoi pas ?
- 14 mars 2012
par Nasser Ary Tanimoune
Ce qui semble pour le moins intéressant dans le domaine des relations économiques internationales, c’est qu’il y a largement matière à apprendre des autres. Bien entendu, si l’on s’en donne les moyens.
Que peut apprendre l’Union …
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R2P Is Not a License for Military Recklessness
- 12 mars 2012
In the New York Times last week, Tufts University’s Alex de Waal penned an op-ed that scathingly criticized the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and a group of people he calls “idealists.” In the article, he identified only two members …
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- 12 mars 2012
The critics of the Invisible Children video have argued that the viral video, which astoundingly has had more than 36 million hits on YouTube, is overstating the importance of this now much-diminished group of thugs called the Lord’s Resistance Army, …
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Reassessing the ‘Hearts and Minds’ Model of Counter-Insurgency
- 12 mars 2012
A couple of news items today bring forth contrasting visions of counter-insurgency success and failure. The first recounts the apparently quite successful reconstruction of Grozny; the second, the massacre of 16 Afghans by an American soldier. The contrast makes …
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The Senkaku Islands: A Forgotten Flashpoint in the Western Pacific
- 12 mars 2012
The uninhabited Senkaku Islands of Japan, claimed by both China and Taiwan under the name Diaoyutai, may seem of minor significance to observers outside the region. These eight uninhabited islands have a land area of only 6.3 km2 and …
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Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights
- 9 mars 2012
On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared …
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- 8 mars 2012
Guest contributor: REX BRYNEN
Professor of Political Science, McGill UniversityIn recent days, a social media-based campaign called KONY2012 has gone viral with worldwide calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). …
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Exploring Global Governance Networks
- 7 mars 2012
How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding …
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Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?
- 5 mars 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012.
By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation.- The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out.
- The international community must invest in a successful
