April 1, 2010
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine’s fourth president in February 2010 led to a sharp discontinuity in the country’s foreign and domestic policies. After a few months in office, President Yanukovych has already renounced many of the legacies of his predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko.
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April 1, 2010
The Munk School’s Citizen Lab made international news headlines with a report documenting a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically targeted and compromised computer systems in India, the Offices of the Dalai Lama, the United Nations, and several other countries.
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April 1, 2010
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, many are hoping that the newly expanded G20 and its newly refurbished Financial Stability Board will foster cooperative policies and resilient markets. In this essay, the author wonders if his late friend Jacques Polak would have considered this hope realistic.
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April 1, 2010
The 2010 Group of Eight (G8) and Group of Twenty (G20) summits, taking place respectively on June 25–26 in Muskoka and June 26–27 in Toronto, Canada, are unusually significant events. For the first time, these two systems for global governance will be held in tandem.
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April 1, 2010
The G8 is dead. Long live the G20! Not so fast. Despite rumours to the contrary, there is still very much a place and a responsibility for the G8 in the international governance architecture.
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April 1, 2010
A strange air of nostalgia hangs over any discussion of the global security agenda. Faced with a bewildering array of challenges to security in the 21st century, we look back on the Cold War with a longing for its alleged simplicities.
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September 4, 2008
A striking feature of discussions on conflict management in recent years has been an emerging consensus on the importance of “peacebuilding.”
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