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The New Interventionism: Promise and Reality
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- September 5, 2012
First published by 3 Quarks Daily The news is alarming: whole families killed in the mountain villages near Lebanon and massacres in Damascus; sectarian clashes between Christian, Alawite and Sunni communities risk a descent into full-scale civil war. The French are demanding intervention, and together with the British threatening to dispatch warships to the Syrian
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Theory and the City
- Analysis
- September 3, 2012
How many people do International Relations (IR) for a living in Canada’s Capital Region? To come up with an estimate, we counted full-time faculty who work in this semi-autonomous field of study at four universities in Ottawa and the neighbouring city of Gatineau: Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, St. Paul University and Université du
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The Measure of a CDS
- Analysis
- September 3, 2012
by Philippe Lagassé First published on the Canadian International Council website. A new Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) was appointed by the Governor-in-Council last week. Following a few months of speculation about who would be named, Cabinet decided on Lieutenant-General Thomas Lawson, who had been serving as the deputy commander of the North American
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The Olympics, and the Rise and Dangers of Private Security
- Analysis
- July 17, 2012
Today, Nick Buckles, the CEO of the world’s biggest private security company, will be questioned by the UK House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which is attempting to explain how G4S managed to bungle the Olympic contract quite so badly. As 3500 soldiers prepare to step in where Group4Securicor failed, the UK government is
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