Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Podcasts
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Recordings of speakers, conferences and workshops on international policy issues held at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
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International Relations and the First Great Debate | Brian C. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. His research and teaching interests are in international relations theory, American foreign policy, and disciplinary history. His book The Political Discourse of Anarchy (1998), which received the Choice 1998 Outstanding Academic Book Award, examines the history of International Relations from the mid-1800s to the outbreak of World War Two. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence | Frank Harvey is Professor of International Relations at Dalhousie University. He has published numerous articles in various outlets and is the author of The Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity (Routledge, 2008), Smoke and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the Illusion of Multilateral Security (University of Toronto Press, 2004) and Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence (with David Carment, Praeger, 2001), as well as of half a dozen other books. His current research interests include globalized terrorism, unilateral vs. multilateral security, proliferation, U.S. and Canadian foreign, security and defence policy, NATO military strategy and third-party intervention into ethnic disputes, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Campaign Against Hate | Farah Pandith was appointed Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009. Her office is responsible for executing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s vision for engagement with Muslims around the world on a people-to-people and organizational level. She reports directly to the Secretary of State. Previously, she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In this role she was focused on Muslim communities in Europe where she was responsible for policy oversight for integration, democracy, and Islam in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. She also worked on issues relating to countering violent Islamic extremism. Ms. Pandith will speak about 2011 Hours Against Hate, a campaign she helped to launch in early 2011 focused on getting young people all over the world to volunteer their time to build stronger communities that value pluralism and diversity and reject hate and bigotry. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Norwegian Energy Policy: Looking Northwards | Mr. Borten Moe is Minister of Petroleum and Energy and vice chair of the Centre Party. In 1995 he became member of the Trondheim city council, and served here for three consecutive periods. In 2001 he became a member of the Norwegian Parliament, representing Sør-Trøndelag County. He has been a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment from 2005-2007. He was chair of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry from 2007-2009 and First Vice Chair in the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs from 2009-2011. He was also vice chair of the parliamentary group steering committee. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Are the Prospects for Iran’s Reformists? | Dr. Walter Posch is Researcher at the German Institute for Foreign and Security Policy (SWP), Middle East and Africa division. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris, and Researcher at the National Defense Academy in Vienna. His research focuses on the development of Iran’s “neo-fundamentalist” political current. His greater areas of expertise are foreign, security and defense policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Iranian domestic policy; political system and ideology of the Islamic Republic; and European-Iranian relations. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linking Mediation to Long-term Peacebuilding: Tensions and Opportunities | Katia Papagianni heads the Mediation Support Programme at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre), a Geneva-based conflict mediation organization. Her work focuses on the facilitation of political dialogue in pre- and post-peace agreement contexts as well as in countries undergoing political transitions. Before joining the HD Centre, she worked for Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Development Programme. Her experience also includes work for the National Democratic Institute in Russia, the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the UN in Iraq. She holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia University, New York and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Princeton University. Her research has focused on political transitions following peace agreements, power-sharing in mediation efforts and the linkages between mediation and peacebuilding. She has taught on peace- and state-building at Columbia University and the Geneva Graduate Institute for International Studies. She has also published on peacebuilding and mediation in various journals and edited volumes. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women’s Human Rights: the Unfinished Agenda | Irene Khan is an international expert on human rights and humanitarian issues. From 2001 to 2009 she was Secretary General of Amnesty International. Prior to joining Amnesty International, Irene worked for the UN High Commissioner High Commissioner for Refugees for 21 years. She sits on the board of several human rights and development organizations. A citizen of Bangladesh, she studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School. She is the recipient of several honorary degrees and awards. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects | John Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. From 1997 to 2001 he served as U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning. From 2005 to 2011, he was the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights. Following an extensive consultation process he presented to the UN Human Rights Council a set of “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights“, which were unanimously endorsed by the Council in June 2011. His take will address the challenges of ensuring that the obligations emerging from these principles are acted upon – both by governments and by the private sector. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ensuring Access to Counsel for the Poor in Post-Conflict Settings | Natalie Rea is the founder and executive director of the International Legal Foundation (ILF), an international NGO that assists post-conflict and transitional countries in establishing public defender systems that provide effective, quality criminal defense services to the poor. She also founded the ILF’s predecessor, Legal Aid Rwanda. Rea also works for the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society of New York, where she represents indigent defendants at the appellate level. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liberty's Trial: War and the Health of Democracy | Ronald R. Krebs is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service and on linguistic practices and politics. Prof. Krebs is the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2006) and is co-editor of In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has also published articles on a range of subjects in leading IR journals, and his commentaries have appeared in, among others, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy.com, and Slate. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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La crise du monde arabe : enjeux et perspectives | (In French) Pierre Razoux directs the "North Africa and Middle East" research program at NATO Defense College in Rome, and was in charge of missions for Srategic Affairs Delegation of the French Ministry of Defense. He also served three years in London within the British Ministry of Defence as part of an exchange between France and the United Kingdom. He has gained real experience in the field of international relations and defense issues and has completed numerous missions abroad, notably in North Africa, the Middle East and the Caucasus. Recognized expert in the Middle East, he has published 7 books and over 90 reference articles (last published titles: Histoire de la Géorgie – La clé du Caucase, Perrin, 2009 and Tsahal, nouvelle histoire de l'armée israélienne, Perrin, Collection "Tempus", 2008), which gives him the opportunity to be regularly interviewed by the media (newspapers, radios, televisions). He is currently writing a book on the Iran-Iraq war and is preparing to support his accreditation to supervise research for the University of Paris IV Sorbonne. He is a researcher associated with many international think tanks and regularly gives lectures, mainly in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Response of Middle Powers to China's Rise | Before joining Griffith University in January 2010, Andrew O'Neil was Associate Professor and Director of the Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute at Flinders University. Prior to taking up an academic position in 2000, Andrew worked as a strategic analyst with Australia's Defence Intelligence Organisation as part of its North Asia and Global Issues branch. Between 2005 and 2007 he served on the Australian Foreign Minister's National Consultative Committee for International Security Issues, and in 2007 he was a Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University. In 2009 Andrew was appointed editor-in-chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs and is an ex officio member of the National Executive of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He is presently Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Project examining Australia's nuclear choices in the context of a rapidly evolving global nuclear marketplace, continuing weapons proliferation worldwide, and pressures resulting from climate change. He is also one of ten Chief Investigators attached to the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. James Manicom completed his PhD at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia in October 2009. His dissertation examined maritime boundary disputes between China and Japan and was funded by the Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. He is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include Asian international relations and strategic studies, energy security, nationalism and territorial disputes; the latter three in particular as they relate to the Canadian Arctic. His published works have appeared in Pacific Affairs, The Pacific Review, and The Australian Journal of International Affairs. He sits on the executive of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian International Council. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Après la crise : penser la trajectoire du capitalisme | (In French) Eric Pineault is Professor of sociology at the University of Quebec in Montreal and Director of research at the Canada Research Chair on Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy. He is also a member of the Collectif d'Analyse de la Financiarisation du Capitalisme Avancé (CAFCA). | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legitimating the Security Council | Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. Jennifer has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and the Central European University (Prague). She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on international relations. Her current research projects include the evolution of the notion of the 'responsibility to protect' in international society, the ethics of post-conflict reconstruction, the authority of the UN Security Council, and a critique of conditional notions of sovereignty. Jennifer was the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Massey College (University of Toronto) in 2005, and is a recent recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship. In 2006, she joined the Board of Trustees of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, and in 2008 became a member of the Editorial Board of the BISA Series in International Relations at Cambridge University Press. Jennifer has served as a consultant to the Government of Canada on international policy, and acts as a frequent commentator in Canadian media on foreign policy and international relations. She has a BA from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar). | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Humanitarian Intervention Legal? The Rule of Law in an Incoherent World | Ian Hurd is Associate Professor of political science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His teaching and research is on the interaction between governments and international institutions, and he has published widely on international organizations, international theory, and world politics. He is currently on leave at the Niehaus Center on Globalization and Governance at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he is writing a book on the connections between international law and foreign policy. His most recent work is International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2011), a textbook for courses on international politics and international organizations. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Democracy, Economy, Environment: The Ecology of Crisis and the Crisis of Ecology | Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books are Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, Dec. 2009), The Constitution of Imperium (Paradigm, 2008) and Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us? (Routledge, 2005), as well as a text co-authored with Mary Ann Tetreault, Global Politics Because People Matter (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). He is editor of Civil Societies and Social Movements (Ashgate, 2006). He is also author of, among other volumes, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives and Practice (CQ Press, 2004). | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Global Economic Crisis and the Crisis for the IMF | Prior to joining CIGI, Thomas A. Bernes was director of the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office. Before that he was executive secretary of the joint IMF-World Bank Development Committee and deputy corporate secretary of the World Bank. From 1996 to September 2001, Mr. Bernes was the IMF executive director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean. He has been assistant deputy minister of finance and G7 finance deputy in Canada and served as the senior international economic official representing Canada at high-level meetings. In addition to holding various senior finance, foreign affairs and trade policy positions within the Canadian government, Mr. Bernes served as head of the OECD's General Trade Policy Division in the mid-1980s. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's 2010 Review Conference: Outcome and Outlook | Paul Meyer retired in September 2010 from DFAIT after a 35 year career in Canada's Foreign Service. He served as Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2003-2007) in which capacity he headed the Canadian Delegation to the 2005 NPT Review Conference and several NPT Preparatory Committee meetings. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding | (In English and French) Séverine Autesserre is Assistant Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on civil wars, peace building and peace keeping, humanitarian aid, and African politics. Her last research project focused on local violence and international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she has travelled regularly since 2001. Research for this project has appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, Review of African Political Economy, African Studies Review and Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. Her book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Her new research project studies how Western and non-Western cultures influence peacebuilding interventions on the ground. | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bridge too Far? Efforts at Synthesis in Contemporary International Theory | Jeffrey T. Checkel is Professor of International Studies and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His reviews and articles have appeared in numerous leading European and American journals. In addition, he is the author of Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 1997), editor of International Institutions and Socialization in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-editor (with Peter J. Katzenstein) of European Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In addition to his position at SFU, Checkel is Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His current research focuses on the transnational and social dynamics of civil war. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Canadian Foreign Policy: Where Do We Go From Here? | Since January 1997, David Bercuson has been the Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and is also the Director of Programs of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, based in Calgary. He has published on a wide range of topics specializing in modern Canadian politics, Canadian defence and foreign policy and Canadian military history. In 1988, Prof. Bercuson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in May 1989, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Calgary. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2004. He was a member of the Minister of National Defence's Monitoring Committee from 1997 to 2003. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 35 books on Canadian history, specializing on Canadian military history and Canadian defence and foreign policy. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Canada and the UN Security Council: Now What? | (In English and French) A panel discussion featuring Yves Fortier, Louise Fréchette, Paul Heinbecker and Allan Rock. On October 12, the day before this panel, the United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote on Canada's bid for a seat on the Security Council. Four veteran UN hands will discuss the outcome and implications of the vote. If Canada is elected, what should it aim to accomplish during its two year term? If Canada is not elected, what are the implications for our foreign policy? | 10/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Transformation of Civil Wars, 1800-2010 | Stathis N. Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe, and the co-editor of Order, Conflict & Violence. He has received several awards and has been awarded fellowships and grants by the European University Institute, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Peace Institute, and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. He is currently researching various aspects of conflict, including the dynamics of violence and participation, and the evolution and transformation of civil wars. | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emerging Powers and Global Order | Andrew Hurrell is the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Balliol College, and the director of the Center for International Studies, Oxford University. In 2009, Professor Hurrell's book On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society (Oxford University Press 2007) won the International Studies Annual Best Book Award. | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama's Foreign Policy: 'Yes We Can' or 'No We Can't'? | Stedman directs Stanford's Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies and is a director of 'Managing Global Insecurity,' a joint project with Stanford, New York University and the Brookings Institution. His research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions, an area of study inspired by his work at the United Nations. In 2003, he was recruited to serve as the research director of the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. Upon completion of the panel's report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Secretary General Kofi Annan asked Stedman to remain at the U.N. as an assistant secretary-general to help gain worldwide support in implementing the panel's recommendations. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toughing It Out in Afghanistan | Michael O'Hanlon, author of the newly published book Toughing It Out in Afghanistan, is director of research and senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security and American foreign policy. He has advised General Petraeus on the Central Command Strategy Review of 2009 and General McChrystal's strategic analysis group for its 2009 strategic assessment document. Through the summer of 2009, he has made six trips to Iraq or Afghanistan, most recently with the International Republican Institute to help monitor the 2009 Afghan presidential election. | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Canada's Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes | Adam Chapnik is deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College and associate professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of the newly published book, Canada's Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes. | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The UN Security Council : Can an Elected Member Like Canada Really Hope to Make an Impact? | Ambassador Colin Keating is the Executive Director of Security Council Report which produces regular reports on the work of the United Nations Security Council. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. Ambassador Keating was formerly a New Zealand diplomat. He was the New Zealand Ambassador to the UN between 1993 and 1996 and served on the Security Council in 1993 and 1994. He was Council president during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and led the Council Mission to Somalia. Also, he chaired the Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Iraq and was actively involved in UN reform, serving as Co-Chair of the General Assembly working group dealing with reform at that time. | 2/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Violences et reconfigurations politiques: Le cas du Caucase du nord | (In French) Aurélie Campana is a professor of Political Science at Laval University and has held the Canada Research Chair in identity conflicts and terrorism since June 2007. Her presentation focuses on patterns of violence and conflict in the North Caucasus. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Development in a Changing World | Ms. Biggs is President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Her presentation addresses the challenges and hopes for development in a changing world. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security, Development and the Fragile State: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Policy | David Carment is Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. In addition Professor Carment serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project. Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change: What Does it Mean for Our Security? | Frances Wood is the Head of Climate Security in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). She leads a small team in London and a network of attaches to broaden and deepen the debate globally on the security implications of climate change. The issue for the UK is in two main parts - limiting the threats to security by addressing the underlying cause - GHG emissions - and by planning for the security implications stemming from the climate impacts already committed to. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From the Front Line: Canadian Forces in Afghanistan | Brigadier General Jonathan Vance, former Canadian commander in Kandahar, recently returned from Afghanistan where he served as Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province from February to November 2009. | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Obama's strategy | Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2006 after 30 years service at the Central Intelligence Agency, including postings overseas. He was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to the last three Presidents of the United States in the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli peace summits including at Camp David and Wye River. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon and a senior advisor at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In January 2009 President Barack Obama asked him to chair a review of American policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future published by Brookings Press. | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan | Mr. Dobbins' talk will be based on his newly published book, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, which won the 2008 Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women's Rights in Afghanistan Seven Years After the Taliban Suppression | Before she became the Chairperson of the AIHRC, Dr. Samar served as Afghanistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Women's Affairs.She has received numerous international awards for her work on human and women's rights, and was listed as one of the "world's 100 most powerful women" by Forbes Magazine in 2007. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Democratizing Global Governance | Professor Scholte's current research focuses on questions of governing a more global world, with particular emphasis on democracy in this context. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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US Foreign Policy After Bush: Can Bipartisanship and Liberal Internationalism be Revived? | Professor Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Governing Carbon Through Markets: Public and Private Governance for Climate Change | (In English and French) Matthew Paterson is the author of Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007), Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance (2000), Energy Exporters and Climate Change (with Peter Kassler, 1997) and Global Warming and Global Politics (1996). | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bigger Demands, Fewer Resources? Obama and American Internationalism | Professor Legro has written extensively on American foreign policy, international cooperation and conflict, China’s future in world politics, international norms and law, military doctrine and strategy, and the causes of foreign policy ideas and national identity. His most recent book is Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (2005). | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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African Perspectives on Universal Jurisdiction | (In French) Professor Manirakiza joined the Faculty of Law in 2003. He is an expert in international criminal and humanitarian law and has written widely on these subjects | 3/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration | One of Canada's most astute political observers, John Ibbitson became the Globe's Washington correspondent in May 2007. He is the author of several books of political analysis, including Promised Land: Inside the Mike Harris Revolution (1997), Loyal No More: Ontario's Struggle for a Separate Destiny (2001) and The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (2005), along with works of fiction and poetry. | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Never Kick a Hornet's Nest: Why We're Losing the War in Southern Afghanistan | Graeme Smith has devoted more time to southern Afghanistan than any other Western journalist, since the arrival of NATO forces in that region. Hired by The Globe and Mail in 2001, the war in southern Afghanistan became his full-time project in mid-2006. | 1/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post-Doha: Where Does the World's Trading System Go Now? | Prior to joining CIGI, Dr. Curtis was Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. | 10/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Foreign Policy Issues in the Canadian Federal Election | (In English and French) A panel discussion featuring Paul Heinbecker, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, James Travers, national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, and Claude Laverdure, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and former Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The End of the Globalization Consensus? | Professor Wade has written extensively on globalization, development and multilateral economic institutions. | 9/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Regional Compact for Afghanistan | Mr. Inderfurth has called for a multilateral accord that addresses both Afghanistan and Pakistan's political, economic and security concerns. | 5/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Present Thinking on Kandahar Province | Brigadier-General Thompson will shortly leave Canada to assume command in Kandahar. | 4/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Financial Sector Policy and Development in the Wake of the Global Crisis | From 1995 to 2010 Roy Culpeper was President and Chief Executive Officer of The North-South Institute, Ottawa. Prior to being appointed President he served as the Institute’s Vice-President, Research, and Program Director, International finance and Debt. Earlier in his career he was an official at the World Bank in Washington, the federal departments of Finance and External Affairs in Ottawa, and the Planning Secretariat of the Government of Manitoba in Winnipeg. From January to May 2011 he was the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow of The North-South Institute, Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. | Free | View In iTunes |
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