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West Politicizes IMF to Support Ukraine
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- December 10, 2015
By Paul Robinson Power is shifting worldwide. As previously less developed economies grow at a faster rate than those of the West, Western states are becoming relatively less powerful. It is in the West’s interest, therefore, to use the years of financial, political, and military dominance which remain to it, to embed other rising powers
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Welcoming Syrians, detaining others
- Analysis
- December 8, 2015
By Philippe Bourbeau The newly elected Trudeau government seems to be moving quickly on one of its promises made during the federal election campaign: to accept 25,000 Syrians by January 1, 2016. On November 9, while announcing the formation of a sub-committee of cabinet ministers to expedite the refugee initiative, the minister for Immigration, Refugees
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Back To Tehran: Strategies for Success
- Analysis
- November 27, 2015
By John Mundy It won’t be easy for Canada to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran, but it’s worth the trouble. In September 2012, the Harper government suspended diplomatic relations with Iran, closed the Canadian embassy in Tehran and expelled Iran’s diplomats from Ottawa. In diplomatic terms, this was equivalent to detonating a neutron bomb. After
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Russia’s Endgame in Donbass
- Analysis
- November 27, 2015
By Paul Robinson Although in recent weeks the attention of many has shifted to events in Syria, the war in Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, has not entirely ended. Fighting continues to kill two or three people each week, and the peace process established at Minsk in February 2015 has reached something of an impasse, due to
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