• Exploring Global Governance Networks

    Exploring Global Governance Networks

    How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding these processes (for example, the patterns we see in certain sorts of governance operating in

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  • Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

    Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

    CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012. By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation. The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out. The international community must invest in a successful political transition in 2014, lest fraudulent elections lead to renewed civil conflict in Afghanistan. Canada and

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  • Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?

    Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?

    For all the expressions of friendship and support between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the two have different thresholds over what would lead them to attack Iran and different visions of how the issue of Iran’s potential nuclear weapons capability can be resolved. Netanyahu believes that any potential Iranian nuclear weapons capability

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  • Why the People Wanted Putin

    Why the People Wanted Putin

    The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 4, 2012. ‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most vivid is that restaurants were few and far between and when you did find one,

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