• R2P: Hindrance Not A Help in the Syrian Crisis

    R2P: Hindrance Not A Help in the Syrian Crisis

    Published on the openDemocracy blog September 13, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria guest edited by David Petrasek. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine was developed to forge consensus in favour of international action to prevent or stop mass atrocities. It has failed to

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  • Syrians Suffer ‘Our’ Collective Failure

    Syrians Suffer ‘Our’ Collective Failure

    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

    Russia is a Beacon of Sanity About Syria

    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

    The G20 at Five: More Technocratic and Less Visionary

    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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