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Understanding “Ethnic Conflict”
- Analysis
- October 7, 2018
By Marie-Eve Desrosiers and Srdjan Vucetic “Ethnic conflict” elicits no shortage of strong scholarly opinion and debate. But what exactly is the causal relationship between ethnicity and violence? And what does “causal” mean in this context anyway? Since ethnic conflict scholars very rarely explain how they understand causes and effects, they seem to take definitions
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Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices
- Analysis
- October 3, 2018
Since the court decision of August 30th that put the Trans Mountain pipeline on hold —and the cat decidedly among the pigeons — Canada’s energy/climate politics has been strangely quiet. Trans Mountain was the last of a batch of new pipelines proposed to get oil/tar sands oil to the Pacific coast. Northern Gateway had been
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Why We Aren’t Ready for the Next Financial Crisis
- Analysis
- September 27, 2018
Ten years ago, as the global economy slipped ever closer to a total meltdown, regulators were slow to recognize the severity of the problem because they were looking in the wrong direction. Transcripts from the US Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee meeting that took place on Sept. 16, just as the financial giant Lehman Brothers was
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What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?
- Analysis
- September 19, 2018
by Hunter McGill and Stephen Brown Every five years or so, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts a “peer review” of the countries that belong to its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). This year was Canada’s turn and the report has just been released. What did Canada’s peers have to say about Canadian
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