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The Austerity Trap
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- 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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Libya: The Real Work is Only Beginning
- Analysis
- November 30, 2011
The Government last week paid tribute to Canadian Forces who served in the recently-concluded NATO mission in Libya. It was a welcome gesture to those who serve Canada abroad, often with little or no recognition at all. And it was consistent with the Government’s new emphasis on muscularity in foreign policy, replacing the nuanced reliance
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Missiles and Mistrust in Europe
- Analysis
- November 28, 2011
At the NATO Lisbon Summit in 2010, the U.S. and its allies expressed the hope that Russia would become a partner in a new missile defense system designed to protect Europe from a nuclear-armed ‘rogue’ state such as Iran. Those hopes seemed to fade in the months following the summit, and appear to be particularly
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