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The Rhetoric and Reality of Attacking Tehran
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- November 11, 2011
Published on November 11, 2011 in the Globe and Mail. The latest United Nations report on Iran’s nuclear program has further raised tensions. While the report was notable for its candour, it carefully avoided making definitive statements on two critical issues: whether Iran has actually decided to build a bomb, or is merely content with
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The UN Security Council and Abdelrazik
- Analysis
- November 8, 2011
Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik is on the U.S. Security Council’s Al Qaida sanctions committee list. His assets are frozen and he is subject to an international travel ban. His case generated substantial notoriety when the Canadian government resisted his repatriation from Sudan on the basis, among other things, of his listing. It has generated even more
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Taiwan’s Presidential Candidates and their Indigenous Platforms
- Analysis
- November 7, 2011
This essay first appeared on the Taiwan 2012 blog. Indigenous people, accounting for about 2% of Taiwan’s population, are unlikely to influence the 2012 presidential election outcomes. Nonetheless, the relative success of the candidates in indigenous communities may influence elections for the Legislative Yuan, which has a quota of six indigenous legislators. The way in
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What Should the G20 Accomplish in Cannes?
- Analysis
- November 4, 2011
On Thursday and Friday of this week, the leaders of the G20 will meet in Cannes to discuss the numerous problems that the world economy is currently experiencing. The big question on everyone’s mind is whether they will be able to restore some kind of confidence in financial markets as well as with consumers and
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