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ACSUS Proves to be an Interesting Conference 

By Carla Angulo-Pasel
Nov20, 2007
The ACSUS conference wrapped up on Sunday November 18 th and it was a success. Not only was the Portal for North America launched to a captive audience, but the panels were thoughtful and provocative.

On the first day, Thursday, I attended a conference panel on 'Securing Citizenship'. Of particular interest to me were the first two papers. One was about refugees, asylum seekers and war-resistors. Davina Bhandhar of Trent University raised the issue of the contemporary war-resistors as it applies [...]
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Nov20, 2007
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Portal for North America introduced at ACSUS 

By Andrew Schrumm
Nov16, 2007
CIGI's new research-led online resource for North American studies is now available. Portal for North America is open to participants at this week's ACSUS biennual conference in Toronto.

Portal for North America (PNA) is a unique web-based tool for knowledge exchange within Canada, Mexico and the United States. Built by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), it provides freely accessible avenues for research, education and network-building on critical continental issues.

A beta version of PNA was launched on Thursday to the biennual conference of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, in Toronto. This large group of Canadian and American scholars [...]
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Nov16, 2007
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Testing Canada's "Energy Superpower" Status 

By Andrew Schrumm
Oct24, 2007
In her latest research paper, CIGI Fellow Annette Hester traces the origins of the term "energy superpower" and analyzes how Canada can become a major player in the international energy market

Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case
by Annette Hester (Calgary: CDFAI, October 2007)

From the beginning of his tenure as prime minister, Stephen Harper has been promoting Canada as an energy superpower. Disconcertedly, there is no clear definition of what it means to be an energy superpower. Nor has there been a discussion of what this power would be used for, or even if Canadians would enjoy such status. This paper examines the established definition of superpowers [...]
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Oct24, 2007
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New CIGI Report on International Trade 

By Andrew Schrumm
Oct04, 2007
In lead-up to the WTO Public Forum in Geneva, CIGI has launched its latest report on the state of the international trading system.

The State of the Trading System, the WTO and the Doha Round 
Conference Report (2007)

Against the background of last-ditch efforts by the United States, the European Communities, Brazil and India meeting in Potsdam to drive the Doha Round to a timely conclusion prior to the expiry of US trade negotiating authority, an international group of expert analysts of the trade scene gathered from June 17-18, 2007, in Waterloo, Ontario, for an informal discussion of the state of the international trade [...]
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Oct04, 2007
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Policy Brief on G8 Summit Reform 

By Andrew Schrumm
May31, 2007
CIGI Associate Director Andrew F. Cooper makes the case for expansion of the G8 to include the B(R)ICSAM countries

In the inaugural Policy Brief in International Governance, CIGI Associate Director Andrew F. Cooper provides reasoning for expansion of the G8 membership to include the B(R)ICSAM group of emerging economies.

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The Logic of the B(R)ICSAM Model for G8 Reform
Andrew F. Cooper, CIGI Policy Brief #1
MAY 2007

In this brief, Dr Cooper argues that this cluster of countries (Brazil, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN, and Mexico) coincides well with the so-called G5 'outreach' or [...]
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May31, 2007
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