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Europe’s Alleged ‘Failure’, Harper’s Certain Gain
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- June 21, 2012
Prime Minister Harper’s pointed criticism of the dithering of European leaders at the G20 summit over the weekend was widely reported, and so too the angry riposte it received from EU Commission President Manuel Barroso. But too few sought to look deeper and ask what was really at work—for the Prime Minister must know that
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The Engaged Academic: Why the Old Ivory Tower Won’t Stand
- Analysis
- June 20, 2012
The latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, includes an important article by Lisa Anderson, an American political scientist who is currently president of the American University in Cairo. Anderson argues that new information technologies are transforming the relationship between universities and their surrounding societies. The “availability of information
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The Greek Elections: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Analysis
- June 20, 2012
All eyes were focused on the Greeks on Sunday. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel was sitting in her plane on the tarmac in Berlin waiting for the results of the elections before she could take off for the G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico. If Syriza had won the elections, Merkel and her EU partners
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Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
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- June 20, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.18, June 2012. By JOSHUA ROVNER, U.S. Naval War College. Some amount of friction is normal in relations between intelligence agencies and policymakers. However, intelligence-policy relations become pathological when policymakers neglect intelligence or politicize it. The flawed estimates of Iraq’s supposed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons were the result of a complete collapse
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