At 100 million people, three times its current population, Canada is among the most consequential countries on Earth
Canada...
Tags: Canada, Canada in the 21st century, Canada’s future, Canadian Constitution, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian identiy, Canadian immigration, Canadian population, Canadian think-tanks, Global Brief, immigration, Irvin Studin, Lester Pearson, nation building, population, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, strategic power
The solutions to the complex challenges of the ‘New Arctic’ will lie in the intricate games – strategic dances –...
Tags: Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic Five, Berlin Wall, British Petroleum oil, China, climate change, Copenhagen, Dan Hurley, EU, G8, Global Brief, International Criminal Court, Japan, Landmines Treaty, Lloyd Axworthy, New Arctic, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Rome Statute, Russia, South Korea, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS
Irreconcilable understandings of ‘the peace’ have betrayed the hollowness of saying “I’m for peace.” But time is...
Tags: 1967 borders, Afghanistan, Egypt, Flotilla, gaza, George Mitchell, Global Brief, Goldstone Report, impossible peace, Iran, Israël, Israel-Palestine, Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israelis, Oslo accord, Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, peace agreement, Peace Process, Peter Jones, PLO, Syria, Turkey, US, Vice-President Biden, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
Meditations on Values, the State and the Crooked Timber of Humanity
The real world has never been kind to political theory....
Tags: 21st century integration, authoritarian, capitalist, citizenship, civil contract, crooked timber of humanity, democracy, democratic process, Frencha and English Canada, GDP, Global Brief, Hegel, inequality between nations, John Rawls, liberal states, Mark Kingwell, neutrality, philosophy, political discourse, Quebec society, technology, transational theories
Législatives américaines de novembre: Fin de la présidence Obama?
Personne ne connaissait Barack Obama avant son fameux...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Civil Rights Act, Convention nationale du parti démocrate, des élections, Frédérick Gagnon, George W. Bush, Global Brief, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, John McCain, la Maison-Blanche, la réforme de l’assurance maladie, le Congrès, Législatives américaines, Obamacare, Sarah Palin, The Cook Political Report
How a flat world has yielded uneven fruits, sowing the seeds of democratic discontent
The big challenge of this new decade...
Tags: Chrystia Freeland, credit crunch, Financial Crisis, Financial Times, Global Brief, global capitalism, globalization, income disparity, plutocracy, technological revolution, Thomas Friedman
New, more complex global problems call out for a new generation of synoptic thinkers – in GB-speak, ‘geocrats’ –...
Tags: 21st century leaders, cosmopolitan generalist, deterrence democracy, geocrats, George W. Bush, Global Brief, Harvard University, Hu Jinato, Jeremi Suri, Kissingers: Kissinger, leadership, Mao Zedong, policy, Richard Nixon, strategy, white house
A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
Tags: Afghanistan, African Union, Al-Shaybani, Arab states, Asia, Avicenna, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, democracy, Economic Cooperation Organization, economic development, European Court of Human Rights, European Union, fertile crescent, geopolitical strategy, Global Brief, Hirad Abtahi, human rights, Ibn Haiyan, International Criminal Court, Iran, Israël, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Khwarazmi, League of Arab States, Mediterranean Union, Middle East, NAFTA, Organization of American States, Pakistan, peace in the Middle East, regional court for human rights, regional security, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road, strategic calculus, supranationalism, Treaty of Kadesh, Treaty of Paris, Turco-Persian agreements, Turkey, UN Charter, Union of South American Nations, Union: Union
The polar endgame is anticlimax: no major conflict in sight, and strategic cooperation reigns
The Arctic, strategically...
Tags: 1959 Antarctic Treaty, 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic conflict, Arctic Council, Arctic ocean, Arctic oil, Barents Sea, Bering Strait, Canada, Chukchi Sea, Continental Shelf, Denmark, Global Brief, Greenland, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Michael Byers, NAFTA, North Pole, Northwest Passage, nuclear submarines, Russia, Russian archipelago, UNCLOS, US, US Coastguard, USSR
The rise of the 21st century’s newest governance network means that developing countries will need to be all the more strategic...
Tags: Africa’s G4, Asian financial crisis, Bank for International Settlements, Brazil, Bretton Woods institutions, Brookings Institution, China, Financial Crisis, Financial Stability Forum, G20, G20 Finance, G20 Leaders, G7, G8, Global Brief, High Indebted Poor Country Initiative, IMF, India, International Development Research Centre, international economic cooperation, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, monetary policy, Ngaire Woods, Russia, World Bank
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