
Despite a still-struggling global economy, one in which contagion from the developed world is now enveloping emerging economies, there is a boom in international donor-recipient diplomacy. Globalization is forcing us to recognize that there is no longer easily divisible rich and poor, North and South, but a new universality, a multi-layered world, with complex, often
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Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the 2012 campaign that point to the same thing: the Republican Party and its presidential nominee
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The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 2012 Discussing democracy in his 1938 essay “What I Believe” E. M. Forster provocatively writes that “(t)wo cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.” Democracy deserves credit for contributing to a decent public sphere, he says; but it can’t be
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The award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is curious. The stated reasons are fair enough on the face of it: the EU has helped to create a stable and peaceful Europe, to extend democracy and human rights across the continent, and to make war between former bitter adversaries (notably France
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