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A Profile of the Steel Industry

November 29, 2012

Peter Warrian’s new book examines the history of the steel industry, presenting it as one of the pillars of North American development in the twentieth century. It focuses on why a rejuvenated steel industry is critical to the economic health of both the United States and Canada. A rationale is offered for the re-emergence of the steel industry in particular, and manufacturing in general, as a vital force in the North American economy of the new millennium.

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Indebted Dragon: The Risky Strategy Behind China’s Construction Economy

November 28, 2012

Lynette Ong writes for Foreign Affairs on China’s problematic construction economy and urbanization. Financing the Middle Kingdom’s recent building boom has been expensive: Estimates put local government debt alone at between $800 billion and $2 trillion, or around 13 to 36 percent of GDP. If the real estate bubble pops, financial and social crises will follow.

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The Canadian Connection: One Year Later

November 20, 2012

This is an update to our November 2011 report titled “The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada”, which examined the use of web servers based in Canada, the U.S., and European countries to host Syrian government websites and websites of the Lebanese political party Hezbullah. Our findings indicate that, while many of the websites we examined in 2011 have changed hosting providers, a number of Syrian government and Hezbullah websites still maintain an online presence through the services of North American and European web hosts.

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Backdoors are Forever: Hacking Team and the Targeting of Dissent?

October 15, 2012

In this report, Citizen Lab Security Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire describes analysis performed on malicious software used to compromise a high profile dissident residing in the United Arab Emirates. The findings indicate that the software is a commercial surveillance backdoor distributed by an Italian company known as Hacking Team. The report also describes the potential involvement of vulnerabilities sold by the French company, VUPEN.

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Discovering India by Motorcycle: 14,000 km, 60 Days

October 10, 2012

Asian Institute Affiliate Ryan Pyle and his brother Colin will spend 60 days tackling over 14,000 km of Indian roads by motorcycle, witnessing the country’s rapid road construction and infrastructure development firsthand.

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Forbes Covers Citizen Lab Researcher Seth Hardy’s Work on Mac Malware

October 9, 2012

At the SecTor conference in Toronto last week, security researcher Seth Hardy of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab research center warned that 2012 has seen a significant increase in new variants of targeted, Mac-focused malware reported to the group by the human rights organizations it seeks to aid.

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Founding a Balkan State: Albania’s Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925

September 27, 2012

Founding a Balkan State examines the pivotal period in Albanian history when the country’s fundamental goals and directions were most hotly contested. Austin shrewdly demonstrates how the missed opportunities of Albania’s political transition affected the course of Balkan history for decades to come.

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Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries – A New Book by David Jongeward

September 19, 2012

This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy and linguistics to clarify the significance of Gandharan reliquaries.

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Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China

September 5, 2012

Lynette H. Ong examines the bias in RCC lending patterns, focusing on why the mobilization of rural savings has contributed to successful industrial development in some locales but not in others.

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Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights

August 31, 2012

Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influence the norms of human rights? Internal Affairs shows how the organizational structures of human rights NGOs and their campaigns determine their influence on policy.

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