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Call for Papers — International Conference on Promoting Democracy: What Role for the Emerging Powers?
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- May 3, 2013
Conference to be held on 15-16 October 2013 in Ottawa, Canada Co-sponsored by: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 May 2013 1. Justification and Objectives The principal goal of the conference
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Intervening in Syria Would be Illegal. It Would Also be Right.
- Analysis
- May 2, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, May 1, 2013 If the United States becomes convinced that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has started using chemical weapons against its own citizens, the “red line” set down by President Barack Obama will have been crossed. If the U.S. initiates military action as a consequence, it will provoke the same
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Thinking Again About the Crisis of EU Climate Policy
- Analysis
- April 29, 2013
The demise of carbon markets has been predicted a number of times. The latest episode to provoke this claim was the failure of the European Parliament to strengthen the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in a recent vote on what is called ‘backloading’, or withholding a number of emission allowances under the system from
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Themed Journal Issue on “The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter”
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- April 29, 2013
By Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) and Srdjan Vucetic In the Maclean’s annual list of “99 stupid things the government did with your money”, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter appears as exhibit 46: Jet lagged: After dissing reports from the auditor general and Parliamentary Budget Office that warned the price of F-35 fighter jets would
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