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Migrants’ Global Ties Challenge Canada to Make Big-Picture Policy
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- June 7, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 6, 2013 The American writer Maya Angelou was referring to deep matters of the heart when she said, “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” The claim may resonate emotionally – but in the realm of global
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How Not to Spend $75 Billion
- Analysis
- June 6, 2013
Humanitarian motives are given as the justification for a whole series of foreign policy endeavours nowadays, from the most peaceful forms of foreign aid through to full-scale military invasion and occupation of foreign countries. How is that working out? Two books published this week provide some answers. The first book, titled How to Spend $75
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The ICTY at 20: Mission Accomplished?
- Analysis
- May 29, 2013
by Rachel Kerr On May 25, 2013, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia celebrated its twentieth anniversary. After 20 years and $2.2 billion, what has this extraordinary experiment in international criminal justice achieved? In The Hague, an exhibition commemorating the Tribunal’s 20 years of existence highlighted its ‘significant moments’: the apprehension of all
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Ayatollah Khamenei’s Slow-Motion Power Grab
- Analysis
- May 29, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 28, 2013 The field has been set for the June 14 presidential election in Iran. The list of approved candidates to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells us a lot about where the country is going. The selection of presidential candidates reflects the mixture of theocracy and republicanism that characterizes
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