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Democracy or the “Almighty Dollar” – Do We Need to Choose?
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- January 1, 2014
by Gerd Schönwälder When the Harper government made the interests of Canada’s business community its top foreign policy priority last month, effectively sidelining traditional Canadian concerns such as democratic development, good governance, or human security, some observers were quick to denounce the shift as an abdication to the almighty dollar. Others, shrugging their shoulders, sighed
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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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