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Analyzing Canada's role in global policy innovation. How to navigate the new normal of ambiguity as a convener, connector and catalyst.
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Read and share the December 2018 issue of Canadian Journal of Development Studies! Note the lead article, reviewing research on horizontal inequalities and conflict.
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December 12, 2018: In a break with the past, the US rejected all four resolutions on space security adopted this fall at the UN General Assembly's First Committee. Paul Meyer's commentary on this situation has just been published, available here.
December 4, 2018: Join IS associate professor Nicole Jackson for a panel discussion on Securing Canadian Elections with the Canadian International Council. Click here for more details and to RSVP.
November 15th: This fall’s session of the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee witnessed a discouraging rupture in the previous broad consensus as to how the UN should proceed to develop norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. Read Paul Meyer's commentary on the events, available here.
November 6-7, 2018: Jeff Checkel is in Washington, DC, attending the final meeting of a year-long project - jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and Office of the Director of National Intelligence - that developed analytic frameworks to help intelligence analysts apply insights from the social and behavioral sciences to policy. Checkel participated in the expert panel on norms and international law.