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Next Steps: How to Make It All Happen
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- January 25, 2018
In part 1 of this blog, “A Canadian G7 Initiative: New Faces for a More Inclusive G20,” I proposed the enhancement of the G20 by adding two new members — representing LDCs (least developed countries) and fragile states — I outlined the benefits for Canada, for the G7, for the G20, and for the world.
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Bring Politics Back to Monetary Policy
- Analysis
- January 25, 2018
The current battle over the liberal world order seems to be about trade, climate, and security policy. But monetary policy has also become an increasingly important arena of conflict. Populist leaders seem to love nothing more than denouncing central bankers and challenging the legitimacy of the current monetary order, as Donald Trump famously did during the US presidential
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Russia: Foreign Policy of a Country In-Between
- Analysis
- January 21, 2018
by Viatcheslav Morozov University of Tartu, Estonia How much do we know about the driving forces behind Russia’s foreign policy? Despite our repeated failures to predict the Kremlin’s actions, we actually do understand a lot. Probably the most important thing we recognize is Russia’s in-between position in Europe: it is neither fully in nor fully
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“Returned Extremist Travellers”: The Small Numbers Problem for Canada, Part 1
- Analysis
- January 18, 2018
On 21 December, the Public Safety department released the government’s “Terrorist Threat to Canada” report for 2017 to no fanfare and little media attention. If you want something to get no attention, send it out just before the Christmas holidays. The release came too late to help the government make its case that they had
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