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Innovating for the Global South

March 19, 2014

Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for reducing poverty in the developing world. Highlighting the multidisciplinary expertise of the University of Toronto’s Global Innovation Group, leading experts from the fields of engineering, medicine, management, and global public policy examine the causes and consequences of endemic poverty and the challenges of mitigating its effects from the perspective of the world’s poorest of the poor.

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Home-Grown Radicalization: Where’s the Solution?

March 10, 2014

Canada is known globally for many things, a strong commitment to multiculturalism and a robust welfare state being just two of these accolades. A rapidly increasing growth in the former achievement and a declining ability in the latter to meet these new demands, however, have created new and pressing issues in regards to national policy. One of the most publicized and discussed issues that has arisen out of the past decade revolves around the notion of the “homegrown terrorist,” referring to individuals who have chosen violent means, or the financial support thereof, to achieve their varying ideological ends. Canadian policy makers and law enforcement officials have the ability to significantly reverse this growing trend.

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Do Canadians Care About Mass Online Surveillance?

March 10, 2014

This January 28th is Data Privacy Day, a date marked around the world in support of data privacy and individual control of personal digital information. This year marks the eighth such holiday and the first since whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a cache of classified documents, revealing the hither-to unknown surveillance capabilities and vast digital reach of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

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Canadian Intelligence: Do We Need Spies?

March 10, 2014

In the world of spies and foreign intelligence agencies, the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are likely the first to come to mind.

What about Canada’s equivalent? Where are our foreign spies?

The answer is that Canada has never had a standalone agency for its foreign intelligence efforts, let alone one dedicated to clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) collection abroad.

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Managing Borders in an Increasingly Borderless World

January 10, 2014

As borders become increasingly fluid in a globalized world, border security remains at the heart of public and policymaker concerns about immigration. This volume from Randall Hansen and Demetrios G. Papademetriou brings together perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on what border security means in practice. It addresses the challenges that continue to evade policymakers and assesses which policies have been most—and least—successful in achieving “secure” borders while also allowing for the movement of people and commerce.

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Rouhani Meter and the first 100 Days

January 7, 2014

On August 3rd, 2013, RouhaniMeter.com set out to measure the performance of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by monitoring the status of promises he made during his campaign. This new report is a look at the Rouhani presidency through the work of the first 100 days of the Rouhani Meter project, from August 3rd to November 12th. In addition to an extended analysis, the report shares new research on public requests for change made by civil society groups, academics, and prominent Iranian figures within Iran to President Rouhani.

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The Role and Place of the High-Level Political Forum in Strengthening the Global Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development

January 4, 2014

Steven Bernstein draws on UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution A/RES/67/290 of July 2013, which establishes the format and organizational aspects of the HLPF, to explore ways the Forum can fulfill its mandate of providing leadership on and integration of sustainable development.

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E-Bandits in Global Activism: WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Politics of No One

December 13, 2013

In recent years, WikiLeaks and Anonymous have made headlines distributing confidential information, defacing websites, and generating protest around political issues. Although many have dismissed these actors as terrorists, criminals, and troublemakers, the authors argue that such actors are emblematic of a new kind of political actor: extraordinary bandits (e-bandits) that engage in the politics of no one via anonymizing Internet technologies.

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Fencing in Warfare: Threats, Punishment, and Intra-war Deterrence in Counterterrorism

Fencing in Warfare: Threats, Punishment, and Intra-war Deterrence in Counterterrorism

November 15, 2013

This article posits that states can gain coercive leverage over different actors involved in terrorism, including organizations with which they are actively hoping to defeat.

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The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?

July 15, 2013

In The Third Globalization, eminent political economists Dan Breznitz and John Zysman gather some of the discipline’s leading scholars to assess the prospects for growth and prosperity among advanced industrial nations.

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