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Transatlantic Free Trade: Not a Novel Idea at All
- Analysis
- December 19, 2013
The benefits of the Conservative government’s recently signed trade deal with the European Union are going to be unknown for some time. It will take an army of economists, lawyers and political scientists to assess the pros and cons of that deal and to measure its benefits for the Canadian economy (or lack thereof). Whatever
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Democratic Emerging Powers and Democracy Promotion
- Analysis
- December 16, 2013
by Gerd Schönwälder CIPS has just received the report on a conference it helped facilitate in October 2013 on the role of democratic emerging powers (DEPs)—such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, and Turkey—in supporting democracy beyond their own borders. Presented by CIPS in partnership with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
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Canada Weakens Its Opposition to U.S. Proposals on Intellectual Property Rights
- Analysis
- December 13, 2013
An update to my November 2013 CIPS Blog post It appears that Canada may be dropping its objections to many of the US TRIPS+ proposals on intellectual property rights. On the last day of the Singapore TPP meetings (December 10, 2013), observers in the Washington Trade Daily commented: Australia, New Zealand and Canada, among others,
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Shining Light on Harper’s Darkling Mideast Outlook
- Analysis
- December 12, 2013
When a private citizen holds a world view filled with forces of light and darkness, with heroes and villains and mystical bonds tying fates together, that’s generally her own business. When that person is the Prime Minister of Canada, however, and that world view bears on the nation’s foreign policy, it’s of wider public interest.
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