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Bangladesh: Out of Fragility?
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- January 20, 2014
By Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University This essay, along with the ones by Sajjad Rahman and by Stephen Baranyi and Alicia Dobson, arose out of the Bangladesh: Out of Fragility symposium held at the University of Ottawa on November 26, 2013. Bangladesh’s weak democratic institutions
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Authorizing U.S. Warfare: Domestic Critics, Global Constituencies and the Renewal of the AUMF
- Analysis
- January 19, 2014
By Mariah Zeisberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. She will be giving a lecture at CIPS on January 23, 2014. The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the United States Congress enacted after 9/11 to authorize combat against Al Qaeda, is still being used to authorize U.S. military operations—many
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Implications of the Kabul Restaurant Attack
- Analysis
- January 19, 2014
Since news broke of Friday’s horrific suicide attack on the largely foreign clientele of a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, attention has understandably focused on the civilians who lost their lives, including two Canadians. But the event, which comes at a critical moment, could also have major implications for the international presence in Afghanistan. For those
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Why is Ottawa Accelerating its International Aid Budget Cuts by Stealth?
- Analysis
- January 14, 2014
by Bruce Montador The Harper government started two years ago to cut back on official development assistance (ODA), announcing in 2012 a three-year series of cuts (even if Canada is among the donor countries least under fiscal pressure to cut ODA). However, it is accelerating those cuts by stealth: specifically, by not spending large amounts
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