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Intellectual Property, Industrial Espionage and the Future of Military Diffusion
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- March 19, 2015
By Robert Farley, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky What do intellectual property law, industrial espionage, and cyber-warfare have to do with one another? Industrial espionage is, by definition, a violation of most existing schemes of intellectual property law. In the 19th and 20th centuries, governments actively practiced industrial espionage, dispatching
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Security Review or Oversight? The Critical Difference
- Analysis
- March 11, 2015
Published in the Globe and Mail, March 11, 2015 The government’s legislation to increase the powers of Canada’s security services has stimulated a necessary and welcome debate. One aspect of this debate concerns the question of what is the appropriate level of scrutiny of these services, and who should do it. This is an important
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International Aid Transparency: Cui Bono?
- Analysis
- March 10, 2015
By Catherine Weaver (University of Texas at Austin and Innovations for Peace and Development) and Josh Powell (Development Gateway and AidData, Washington, DC) Over the past decade, the international aid transparency movement has made considerable progress in opening the information spigots, firmly bringing the big data revolution to the nearly $200 billion (annual) global development
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What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why it Matters
- Analysis
- March 6, 2015
When things go wrong in politics, the word ‘failure’ gets bandied around a lot. In recent weeks, we’ve heard about the failure of Canadian drug policy (as admitted by Stephen Harper), the failure of Canadian diplomatic efforts to get Barack Obama on board for the Keystone XL Pipeline (as declared by his critics), and the
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