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Last Year’s CIPS Blog Highlights, Part 1: Harper’s Foreign Policy
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- September 7, 2014
Last academic year—our third year of publication—CIPS Blog presented a sterling lineup of posts on topics spanning the globe, with a particular focus on Canadian foreign policy. Below, and in successive newsletters this fall, we’ll be presenting highlights from the past year: some of the most interesting, insightful and tough-minded reflections on Canada and international
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Social Media and the Rise of Scholar-Blogging
- Analysis
- September 7, 2014
By Mira Sucharov, Department of Political Science, Carleton University As the prominence of social media in society intensifies, the question of how scholars can most effectively engage in the public sphere has taken on new significance. In a piece in PS: Political Science & Politics earlier this year, Brent Sasley and I looked at how
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Where’s the Megaphone on the Threat to Canada?
- Analysis
- September 7, 2014
Published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 6, 2014 The Conservative government has a strange way with public pronouncements on security issues. When it comes to the gravest of international crises, the government is prone to bold, headline-grabbing statements, whether on Putin’s role in stoking the flames in the Ukraine, or the threat posed by Iran,
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The Public is Back — But Not as We Knew It
- Analysis
- September 7, 2014
In sharp contrast to neo-liberal ‘hands off’ attitudes that shaped its past policies, the Harper government is considering a much greater public role in the economy, strategically targeting certain key sectors. Meanwhile, in response to growing concerns about the implications of cyber attacks, there has been a move to increase the requirement for private companies
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