March 1, 2017
In this article, Master of Global Affairs candidate Alessandra Jenkins reflects on Canada’s innovation agenda and the current state of innovation policy. Read the article
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This paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance looks at how cities can reduce exposure to flood risk caused by climate change. Read the paper
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This paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance examines the successes and stumbling blocks of three major cities in trying to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Read the paper
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In this article, Aisha Ahmad asks why radical Islamist groups come to power in internal conflicts, a question that is relevant to current discussions of the Islamic State/ISIS and similar movements across the Middle East and South and Central Asia. The...
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In this research article, Jon Lindsay and colleague Eric Gartzke explore the relationship between cyber operations and nuclear deterrence. Nuclear command and control increasingly relies on computing networks that might be vulnerable to cyber attack. Yet nuclear deterrence and cyber operations...
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February 13, 2017
This Citizen Lab report describes an espionage operation using government-exclusive spyware to target a Mexican government food scientist and two public health advocates. All of the targets have been active supporters of Mexico’s soda tax, a public health measure to...
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This Citizen Lab report describes Nile Phish, an ongoing and extensive phishing campaign against Egyptian civil society. In recent years, Egypt has witnessed what is widely described as an “unprecedented crackdown,” on both civil society and dissent. Amidst this backdrop,...
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January 25, 2017
Jeffrey Reitz, director of the R.F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, co-authored a report examining the extent of discrimination against skilled immigrants from Asian backgrounds in Canada today. The report asks whether this type of discrimination varies...
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This special issue of Review of Policy Research, edited by Teresa Kramarz and University of Sydney’s Susan Park, features two articles by Kramarz on environmental policy and the politics of environmental accountability. Access the journal
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December 1, 2016
In Simply Tolstoy, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin traces the author’s profound journey of discovery and explains how he mined his tumultuous inner life to create his great works.
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