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Syrians Suffer ‘Our’ Collective Failure
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- September 10, 2013
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy Published in the Globe and Mail, September 10, 2013 Almost a month has passed since the world learned that chemical weapons were used against the Syrian people. Apart from florid rhetoric, there still has been no response. No consequences for the monstrous regime. No act of global denunciation. More
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Russia is a Beacon of Sanity About Syria
- Analysis
- September 10, 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, September 9, 2013 Russia-bashing and Putin-bashing, always fairly popular, have been much in fashion of late. Having lived for a while in Russia and before that the Soviet Union, as well as having devoted far too many hours to the study of Russian history, I might, in the past, have
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The G20 at Five: More Technocratic and Less Visionary
- Analysis
- September 10, 2013
While media attention was focussed on Syria, the G20 issued its most detailed communiqué in its five-year history. It includes commitments to work together on a wide range of issues: strong and sustainable economic growth, unemployment and underemployment (particularly among young people), long-term financing for investment, international trade, cross-border tax evasion and avoidance, financial reforms
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Is the Global Partnership Ready to Broaden Its Mandate?
- Analysis
- September 4, 2013
Partnership, especially global, has to be a good thing. But many saw the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation as a flawed last-minute compromise agreed at the 2011 Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea. The question remains whether the Global Partnership (GP) might evolve into a key element in the new global architecture on
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