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Canada-U.S. Perimeter Plan: From Aspiration to Action?
- Analysis
- December 8, 2011
Yesterday, Canada and the United States announced a security and economic cooperation plan similar in style and substance to the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It’s worth recalling, therefore, that the SPP died of neglect shortly after it was launched. Unless political champions at the highest levels in both countries commit
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Going Rogue: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol
- Analysis
- December 6, 2011
So the Canadian government is apparently planning, according to numerous media reports, to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Minister, Peter Kent, refuses to confirm or deny the reports. The surprise should perhaps precisely be that this is not a surprise. Before the rumours, it was unthinkable that a government, especially a ‘good
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The Austerity Trap
- Analysis
- December 4, 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In Canada, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has reiterated that the solution to the current economic crisis,
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No Sweet Sixteen: International Policy in Dayton Bosnia
- Analysis
- December 1, 2011
This week, Valentin Inzko, an Austrian diplomat currently acting as High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia), came to the University of Ottawa to speak about the Dayton Agreement, a 1995 peace deal ending a war that had left more than 100,000 people dead and two million displaced. While successful in stopping the bloodshed
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