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Event Report: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter
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- September 19, 2013
On September 12, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid spoke at CIPS on Pakistan’s current challenges and its prospects for coming years. The present situation, he declared at the outset, is grim. Three separate insurgencies are causing mayhem; the economy is crumbling; and an acute energy crisis is having huge impacts on national growth and development.
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Harper Must Square the Provincial Circle on CETA
- Analysis
- September 18, 2013
Earlier this month, as he was leaving the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that there was still no deal on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU). At the same time, the prime minister described provincial governments as “partners” in the ongoing negotiations. However, it
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R2P Down But Not Out After Libya and Syria
- Analysis
- September 18, 2013
By Gareth Evans Published on the openDemocracy blog, September 9, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria, guest edited by David Petrasek. The lack of consensus in the UN Security Council as to how to react to mass atrocity crimes in Syria, including now the
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With Syria, the US and Britain Are Trapped in the Past
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- September 17, 2013
Published in the Huffington Post Canada, September 16, 2013 William Faulkner’s most brilliant insight was his quip that “The past is never dead, it is not even past.” It is the past that is now befuddling the most strategic thinkers in President Obama’s administration as well as the bevy of deep thinkers at Harvard and
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