On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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Chapter by Linda White & Adrienne Davidson Introduction The Canadian welfare state was largely built on male-breadwinner/female caregiver norms regarding employment policy, and morally regulative ‘cause of need’ rather than ‘fact of need’ social policy provision that discriminated against particular...
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February 17, 2022
Lynette Ong’s new book, The Street and the Ballot Box, published on January 29, examines the 2018 Malaysian election and a range of cases from other authoritarian regimes across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Ong explores a broad-based social movement that...
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July 13, 2021
What drives support for or opposition to redistributive taxation and spending? Why is ethnic diversity associated with inequality and a lack of redistribution? Written by Michael Donnelly, this book argues that many individuals, recognizing that they live in a world...
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June 2, 2021
This recently-released collection examines the conditions that brought Abe Shinzo to power as Japan’s longest-ruling Prime Minister, and the strengths and weaknesses of his government. The book is co-edited by Phillip Lipscy, Chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs; Director,...
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Jacques Bertrand offers a comparative historical analysis of five nationalist conflicts over several decades in Southeast Asia. Using a theoretical framework to explain variance over time and across cases, he challenges and refines existing debates on democracy’s impact and shows...
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May 13, 2021
In this new book from Munk School distinguished fellow Cheng Li, the author argues that American policymakers must not lose sight of the expansive dynamism and diversity in present-day China, and that the caricature of the PRC as a monolithic...
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This volume by Phillip Lipscy, edited by Takeo Hoshi, seeks to explain the political economy of the Abe government and the so-called ‘Abenomics’ economic policies. The Abe government represents a major turning point in postwar Japanese political economy. In 2019,...
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December 10, 2020
Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the ‘thugs’, ‘pirates’, and ‘fanatics’ of the nineteenth...
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November 19, 2020
In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity. Digital technologies have given rise to...
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