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The World Energy Outlook and North Pole Crocodiles
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- 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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Science Diplomacy: What’s It All About?
- Analysis
- November 18, 2011
CIPS Policy Brief No. 13 (November 2011). By Daryl Copeland. Science diplomacy can play a critical role in addressing the complex transnational issues which feed underdevelopment and insecurity. Foreign ministries, multilateral organizations and science-based institutions are unprepared and ill-equipped to deliver. As long as defence continues to dominate the international policy agenda and to command
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The 800-Pound Panda in Obama’s Asia Speech
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. Sometimes, the most interesting part of a political speech isn’t what is said, but what’s not said. On Thursday, President Barack Obama delivered an address to Australia’s Parliament in which he set out the rationale and priorities of the U.S. policy shift towards the Asia
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UNDRIP: The Wrong Basis for Canada’s International Indigenous Agenda
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Scott’s Simon recent blogpost on Canada and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Persons got a central message right: the importance of Canada playing a strong role abroad in promoting indigenous rights and indigenous issues. And he’s right on two more points: in suggesting that the role is there for Canada to play,
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