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Is the Global Partnership Ready to Broaden Its Mandate?
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- 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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Syria and Obama’s Flawed Logic of Message-Sending
- Analysis
- September 4, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 4, 2013 In announcing his plan last Saturday to put the prospect of Syrian intervention to a Congressional vote, President Obama posed a ringing question to his domestic and global audience: “What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight
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On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria
- Analysis
- September 3, 2013
Ian Hurd is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University The debate sparked by Syria’s chemical weapons attack includes at least three separate controversies: 1) which (if any) international legal instruments govern Syria’s use of chemical weapons; 2) whether outside military action against the Syrian regime violates international law; and 3) whether US
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Indecent Proposals: Why the Fraser Institute is Wrong on Immigration
- Analysis
- September 3, 2013
Published September 9, 2013 on the Broadbent Blog My best guess is that the Fraser Institute expects no one to read the report behind their newest sensationalist press release, in which they claim that the cost of immigrants to Canada is staggeringly high. Anyone who looked at the report more closely would find false claims,
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