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What Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean
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- December 21, 2011
By Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a new fighter jet competition process. In the mid-2000’s, six aircraft were being mentioned as candidates: the
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Tap Immigrants to Help Shape Foreign Policy
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- December 20, 2011
By Tom Axworthy, John Monahan and Natalie Brender Published in the Globe and Mail, December 20, 2011. As Canada’s focus on Libya shifts from the drama of regime change to the challenges of peace building and reconstruction, could the expertise of Libyan-Canadians be useful to the design and execution of Canada’s efforts in that country?
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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011
- Analysis
- December 16, 2011
In my role as CIPS Blog editor, I’m happy to present what is probably not the first, and likely won’t be the last, ‘best-reads’ list that you’ll be seeing this year. However, it does have the virtue of being distinctive in two respects. First, we’ve asked six of our CIPS featured bloggers to nominate not
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Africa: No Longer “The Hopeless Continent”
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- December 13, 2011
“Africa Rising” declared The Economist’s front page last week. How things change! Eleven years ago, the front page of the same prestigious weekly declared Africa “The Hopeless Continent”. Then a young soldier brandishing an RPG peered menacingly at the respectable reader, emerging from the dark map of the continent as if to suggest its descent into savage
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