March 14, 2011
HOW IT WORKS, AND HOW IT’S INFLUENCED On Saturday March 5th, 2011, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) convened for its annual session. The Congress consists of some 3,000 delegates elected by China’s provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and the armed forces....
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March 7, 2011
NOW THAT LIBYA’S OFF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL On February 28th, 2011, the UN Human Rights Council reconvened. Eight years ago that Spring, I witnessed Najat Al-Hajjaji preside for the first time as the Libyan elected Chair at the...
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February 28, 2011
FINANCE MINISTERS AND CENTRAL BANKERS AGREE ON CUTTING DEBT, BUT NOT MUCH ELSE The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, held in Paris on February 18-19, 2011, was a small success for this new model of global...
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February 21, 2011
BUDGET 2011: OBAMA’S BIG REALITY CHECK First came the poetry of the January 25th State of the Union address: It was time for Americans to remember that they were “the light of the world,” Obama said – time to “out-innovate, out-educate,...
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February 14, 2011
WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW ENTER THE NEXT PHASE OF NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS When US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov concluded the two-year phase of the New START Treaty (Treaty) negotiations with an exchange of diplomatic documents...
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February 7, 2011
TAHRIR SQUARE ENDS A GOVERNMENT AND LAUNCHES AN ERA The euphoria of the demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo is blowing through the Middle East. In less than two weeks, Egyptians humbled their president, broken the back of the security...
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February 1, 2011
This report provides both an in-depth analysis of several distinct types of no-fault programmes and research-based recommendations for the design and implementation of a model programme that could be implemented in the Canadian context.
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January 31, 2011
FORGET THE SESSIONS...CHECK OUT THE COFFEE LINE-UP This week thousands will make the arduous journey to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in a small southeastern Swiss village called Davos — a place otherwise known for its skiing,...
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January 17, 2011
A MEETING OF FRIENDS AND FOES (OR AT LEAST RIVALS) Well it is definitely not a G2. While the global financial crisis was raging and there was strong crisis management among the leading global powers, it appeared to many that...
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January 10, 2011
SUNDAY’S REFERENDUM IS A MILESTONE FOR MULTILATERALISM Sudan has been in crisis since it gained independence in 1956. There has been a horrible history of marginalization: acute economic, social and political discrimination based on ethnicity, religion and region. Southern Sudan...
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