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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July 6, 2012
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making immigration one of the most difficult political debates across the West.
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January 24, 2012
In “Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State”, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore.
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January 11, 2012
This book offers a major challenge to our understandings of nationalism, racism, colonialism and wartime mobilization during the Second World War.
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December 17, 2011
In this new book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state to ensure its survival.
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August 1, 2011
It is in and through practices – deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge – that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted, and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing to banking or networking) which constitute the social fabric of world politics. This book brings together leading scholars in fields from International Law and Humanitarianism to nuclear deterrence and the UN to provide effective new tools to understand a range of pressing issues of the era of globalization. As an entry point to the study of world politics, the concept of practice accommodates a variety of perspectives in a coherent yet flexible fashion and opens the door to much-needed interdisciplinary research in International Relations.
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May 31, 2011
By Dan Breznitz and Michael Murprhee Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation’s remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched book closely examines the strengths and weaknesses...
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April 26, 2011
Inspired by Allan Gotlieb’s capacity to reshape diplomacy for the times, the contributors to this volume grapple with the challenges of a digital age where information is everywhere and confidentiality is almost nowhere.
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