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What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why it Matters
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- 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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To Understand International Security, Consider Social Relations
- Analysis
- March 5, 2015
By Jarrod Hayes, School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech The world is a complex place. Social tides ebb and flow, diverse social systems interacting with agency to produce an ever-shifting mix of international challenges. This is all the more true in the post-Cold War global context, with the apparent stability of the rivalry between the
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A Foreign Policy for the Future
- Analysis
- March 5, 2015
In the March issue of the Literary Review of Canada, I write about the future of Canada’s foreign policy in an open letter to the party leader who wins the 2015 federal election. Here’s an excerpt: Rather than maintaining the virtuous circle of effective bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, Canada has been marginalizing itself. It is one thing to
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La relation israélo-américaine : le danger Netanyahou
- Analysis
- March 1, 2015
Quand Susan Rice a dit à Charlie Rose que l’insistance de Netanyahou à vouloir parler au congrès américain du danger que représentent les négociations avec l’Iran et ainsi à vouloir saboter les efforts du président Obama, « avait un effet destructeur sur l’essence de la relation entre les deux pays », elle expliqua fort à
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