February 25, 2014
William Thorsell, chair of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury writes that the 2014 shortlist “paints a retrospective portrait of the United States in the context of an ultimately dysfunctional Europe, an America now facing potent struggles for supremacy in...
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February 25, 2014
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/foreign-regimes-use-spyware-against-journalists-even-in-us/2014/02/12/9501a20e-9043-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html
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February 20, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/20/us/ap-us-macarthur-foundation-nonprofits.html?ref=us&_r=1
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February 10, 2014
Kaya Ellis from U of T Mississauga and Louis Tsilivis from the Munk School’s Master of Global Affairs Program and the Faculty of Law pooled their powers of persuasion to finish in first place ahead of other prominent universities from Canada and the...
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February 3, 2014
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/challenge+counterterrorism/9459692/story.html
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January 31, 2014
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documents-1.2517881
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January 30, 2014
The Simons Foundation and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) has announced that MGA student Samuel Wollenberg have been selected as one eight students to receive a 2013-2014 Graduate Research Award for Disarmament,...
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January 22, 2014
TORONTO, ON – Professor Stephen J. Toope, a noted international law scholar and university leader, has been named the new Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
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January 22, 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/u-of-ts-munk-school-taps-ubc-president-stephen-toope/article16445777/#dashboard/follows/
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November 29, 2013
Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations–the US, Western European countries, Japan–can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer.
Can their middle classes remain comfortable as more and more good and technical jobs disappear to other parts of the world? Can they support themselves as they devote more and more economic resources to an aging population base? In The Third Globalization, eminent political economists Dan Breznitz and John Zysman gather some of the discipline’s leading scholars to assess the prospects for growth and prosperity among advanced industrial nations.
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