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WTO Resilient but Changed after Ministerial
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- February 8, 2012
This essay is excerpted from a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Commentary, published online February 7, 2012. The recent ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in December, demonstrated that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is resilient but changed as an organization. In fact, the meeting surprised many hardened observers by producing some tangible deliverables—four new
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A New Cold War on Democracy and Human Rights at the UN Security Council and Beyond?
- Analysis
- February 7, 2012
On February 4th, 2012, the UN Security Council witnessed what could be one of the first salvos in a new cold war focused on democracy and human rights. A double veto by Russia and China defeated the resolution drafted by the Arab League (and supported by almost all the Arab states along with all the
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The New Canada: Fomenting Fear at Home and Abroad
- Analysis
- February 4, 2012
Why base policy on facts and evidence when you can exploit fear instead? It doesn’t take a psychologist to know that fear is a much more powerful motivator than boring old rational argument. Political scientists have long studied the use of fear-based appeals as techniques that “entrepreneurial” politicians may use to mobilize support. The Harper
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Something Borrowed, Nothing Gained: John Baird’s Big Ideas in Foreign Policy
- Analysis
- February 3, 2012
“Canada is what I like to call a ‘smart power’,” Foreign Minister John Baird declared in a major speech in Israel last week. That’s reassuring, although as a means of distinguishing our foreign policy it is likely to prove elusive. What country would proudly proclaim the opposite? Every state hopes to exercise power in smart
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