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Most Impressive IA Reads of 2011
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- 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”
- Analysis
- 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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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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