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Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Let’s Not Get Overexcited Here!
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- November 24, 2011
At the APEC leaders’ summit that took place in Honolulu two weeks ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Asia would become the federal government’s new trade priority. As a result, he indicated, Canada would formally ask to join the negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes Pacific Rim countries such as Australia, Chile,
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A Pivotal Moment? U.S. Policy Towards Asia
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. Is the United States “pivoting” its foreign policy towards the Asia-Pacific region, as prominent Obama administration officials, news reports, and commentators have claimed? Daniel Drezner, a Fletcher School professor and Foreign Policy blogger, isn’t convinced. For one thing, he points out, the U.S. never
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Global Issues, Colonial Mindsets: The Munk Debates
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
Imagine that a foundation in a small European country, perhaps Denmark, sponsors a high profile series of debates with the purpose of providing a “forum for leading thinkers to debate the major issues facing Denmark and the world.” Most people, certainly Danes, would find it odd if those invited to debate the issues were overwhelmingly
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The World Energy Outlook and North Pole Crocodiles
- Analysis
- November 21, 2011
So the International Energy Agency (IEA) produced its annual World Energy Outlook this year. The central message seems to be: PANIC! IT MAY BE TOO LATE. When a sober organisation full of technocrats and policy wonks screams panic, you know something is up. However, the IEA was founded precisely on panic: in the aftermath of
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