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Canada Should Prepare for a Long Fight Against IS
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- September 12, 2014
By George Petrolekas and Ferry de Kerckhove Published in the Globe and Mail, September 12, 2014 In 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned to a hero’s welcome in London having given away parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich. He announced that he had brought “peace in our time” and then asked his citizens to go home
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Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure
- Analysis
- September 11, 2014
An earlier version of this essay appeared on RegBlog.org Nobody likes to admit failure—least of all government-funded development organizations in hard economic times. Yet recent years have seen a number of prominent development agencies confess to failure. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitted its failure to recognize the damage that its overzealous approach to
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What Should Canada Do About Cuba’s Participation in the Americas Summit?
- Analysis
- September 11, 2014
This commentary reflects the public remarks and off-the-record discussion with officials at the forum on Cuba, the 2015 Americas Summit, and Beyond: Obstacles and Opportunities, which was co-sponsored by CIPS on September 4, 2014. Most Latin American and Caribbean states have indicated they will not attend the Americas Summit planned by Panama for April 2015
READ MORECan Al Qaeda Compete With ISIL?
- Analysis
- September 10, 2014
By Archana Sundarachari and Wesley Wark The world’s attention has been riveted for weeks on the military exploits and brutal excesses of a relatively new jihadist entity, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS or IS). ISIL traces its roots to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and was once an affiliate
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