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- June 18, 2020
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“China Clause” in USMCA is American Posturing, Not a Veto
- October 18, 2018
There is a strong narrative developing around the non-market economy article 32.10 in the proposed United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). Various commentaries have gone as far as saying that the clause is in effect a choice between the United States or …
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How the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Fuel Today’s Right-Wing Populism
- October 10, 2018
Ten years ago, on 3 October 2008, President George W. Bush signed the “Troubled Assets Relief Program” (TARP), promising $700 billion to support banks and companies hit by the global financial crisis. As Congress passed this historic bill, it seemed …
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Treason or Good Management? How Officials React When the Boss Goes Rogue
- September 12, 2018
Lauchlan T. Munro
School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa
Should we be surprised that a senior official in the Trump administration has admitted to thwarting the president’s expressed wishes and intentions? I for one am not. …
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Moving On: The West Adjusts to a Rogue US President, Part 1
- August 27, 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman
The summer of 2018 has shaken the rules-based world order that emerged from the devastation of the Second World War. A rogue president of the United States has apparently chosen unilateralism and nationalist competition over the multilateral …
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Moving On: The West Adjusts to a Rogue US President, Part 2
- August 27, 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman
Part 1 of this article appears here.
Though Trump’s electoral victory was a shock, allies hoped it was hyperbole when Trump declared in his inaugural address in January, 2017, that he placed the interests of America …
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The Prospects for Chinese Leadership in an Age of Upheaval
- July 24, 2018
Srdjan Vucetic, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Bentley B. Allan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Ted Hopf, Provost Chair Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore…
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The View from MARs: American Populism and the Liberal World Order
- July 15, 2018
Jean-François Drolet, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University, London
Michael C. Williams, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Each day seems to bring a new body-blow to the liberal international order. Longstanding alliances are strained. …
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Opioids and Capitalism
- July 10, 2018
by Paulo Pereira
In recent years, tens of thousands of Americans have died of opioid related overdoses, and millions of Americans are classified by the country’s health agency standards as having some sort of problematic opioid use. Canada is facing …
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Has the G7 Lost its Mojo?
- June 17, 2018
After a series of sessions on global trade and the key Canadian priorities of gender equality and climate change, the highly anticipated two-day Group of Seven (G7) summit ended Saturday afternoon in Charlevoix, Quebec.
There had been hopes for a …
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Why Canada Should NOT Move its Embassy to Jerusalem
- June 5, 2018
by Jon Allen and Alan Freeman
For President Donald Trump and many Israelis, the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem is simply “a recognition of reality,” the fact that Jerusalem and not Tel Aviv is the functioning capital …
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The G7: Hard Talk or a Sleepwalk?
- May 24, 2018
by Jeremy Kinsman
As the Charlevoix G7 approaches, there is some question as to how the June 8–9 summit could play out as a Trumpian disaster. As veteran diplomat Jeremy Kinsman writes, if the disruptive president plays skunk at the …
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream”
- April 4, 2018
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand …
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