Latest Research: Articles, Papers, and Reports


A Model Act for Preserving Canada’s Waters

February 1, 2008

POWI’s 2007 paper and panel discussion, On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration made a strong case that Canada’s freshwater resources continue to be at risk from proposals to export bulk water and that federal action is urgently needed on the matter. In the wake of the On the Table forum, POWI began to research a fundamental question: Are there options available to Canada to deter bulk water removals that are both consistent with Canada’s trade obligations, constitutionally viable, and desirable from other public policy perspectives?

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The World’s First Anti-Americans: Canada as the Canary in the Global Mine

January 17, 2008

As we all know, the issue “anti-Americanism” has salience in just about every country in the world. As needs also to be appreciated, it affects countries not just in terms of their foreign policy, but also in terms of their domestic politics. In many countries, the issue of how to relate to America is a major factor in purely domestic politics.

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Making Sense of Political Trials: Causes and Categories

January 1, 2008

Political trials have been common in history, and have taken place in both consolidated democracies that respect the rule of law as well as authoritarian regimes. As concentrated legal narratives and expressions of political activity, such trials are neither entirely pejorative nor positive.

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Refugees and Regional Dynamics of Peacebuilding

January 1, 2008

The establishment of the UN Peacebuilding Commission in 2005 is but one example of recent developments in the concept and practice of “peacebuilding.” While many of these developments have been encouraging, they share a common limitation: they are focused almost exclusively on activities within the country in question, with little or no attention paid to the regional nature of conflicts and the impact of these dynamics on peacebuilding.

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Munk Centre Monitor Fall 2007

November 13, 2007

MUNK CENTRE MONITOR FALL 2007  

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The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada

November 7, 2007

A new report, entitled “The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada,” continues Citizen Lab research.

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Comparative Program on Health and Society Lupina Foundation Working Papers Series 2006-2007

November 6, 2007

On November 9, 2001, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) produced a video for the Internet called “Coping with Bioterrorism — The Role of the Laboratorian.”

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Economic Recovery in the Commonwealth of Independent States: Oil, Reforms, Rebound – or All of the Above?

October 31, 2007

Transition countries in the European and Eurasian region all experienced a significant decline in output throughout the 1990s. While the extent of the decline is sometimes disputed because GDP measures used during the Soviet era cannot be compared with those of the market regime that followed, there is no doubt that all countries in
this region underwent a “transitional recession.”

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Intersubjectivity in Literary Narrative

October 6, 2007

The study you are holding in your hands right now strives to formulate a concept of intersubjectivity that issues from viewing the narrative as a communication situation. Its basis is the theory of dialogical capacity by Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva, the concept of context and the foundation of the subject in Prague structuralism, and cognitive semantics.

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Water Diversion, Export, and Canada-U.S. Relations: A Brief History

August 25, 2007

The main conference paper, On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration, explores recent events relating to water export, including increasing water supply problems in the U.S. and Mexico, recent activities in Canada and the U.S. that promote the export of water from Canada, the myths of water abundance in Canada, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and the water-energy nexus in a continental context.

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