• Le Canada Invisible

    Le Canada Invisible

    Par Ferry de Kerckhove et George Petrolekas; La Presse, 12 septembre 2014. C’est avec une extrême surprise que nous avons pris connaissance des propos du premier ministre Stephen Harper selon lesquels « la contribution du Canada aux affaires mondiales n’a jamais été aussi grande qu’aujourd’hui ». Il s’agit là d’une énormité. Tous les observateurs avisés de la

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  • Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria

    Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria

    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

    Canada Should Prepare for a Long Fight Against IS

    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

    Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure

    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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