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Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria
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- September 12, 2014
President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday marks the third major shift in United States counterterrorism strategy since 9/11, but it remains to be seen if the new approach will work better than the previous ones. The first shift followed the 9/11 attacks, when George W. Bush launched what became known as the Global War on
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Canada Should Prepare for a Long Fight Against IS
- Analysis
- 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
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