Nuclear Energy & Non-Proliferation
Inside the Issues Special Edition 2.26 - Iran and the West
In a special edition of Inside the Issues, host David Welch moderates a panel discussion on relations between Iran and the West. Panellists include: former U.S. ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Iranian ambassador Hossein Mousavian and Balsillie School of International Affairs Professor James Blight, who begins the dicussion by asking "Why can't we transcend our differences?"
The IAEA: Balancing Influence and Enforcement?
CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay gives an interview to ISN ETH Zurich on the capabilities and shortcomings of the IAEA.
2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit: Seizing the High Ground
Last week, more than 50 world leaders convened in South Korea to attend the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit — a forum for discussing nuclear security. At the end of the conference, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak stated “we have now set a new milestone for creating a safer and more peaceful world free from nuclear terrorism.” To understand more about the summit’s implications, we speak to the author of a forthcoming major report on the International Atomic Energy Agency, CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay.
Inside the Issues 2.23 - North Korea and Regional Security
With a new leader installed in Kim Jong-un and fresh negotiations underway with the United States, some think that North Korea may finally be coming in from the cold of international estrangement. To test this theory, Inside the Issues talks to Seung Hyok Lee, adjunct assistant professor at Renison University College and South Korean national.
North Korean Announcement Shows Policy Continuity with Past Regime
North Korea agreed recently to suspend its nuclear activities, announcing a freeze on nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment at its Yongbyon plant. It also invited back international nuclear inspectors expelled in 2009, presumably in a bid to restart the six-party talks. To better understand the significance and possible ramifications of North Korea’s announcement, we talked to James Manicom, SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the Balsille School of International Affairs.
Fukushima Turning Point May Lift Secrecy of Nuclear Safety Group
CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay comments that given the alleged non-independence of Japan's nuclear regulator, the country will come under strong pressure at the upcoming IAEA conference to provide a detailed account of what happened at Fukushima.
Sir David King on Science and International Governance
In this week's Inside the Issues, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Sir David King, talks with Inside the Issues about science and how it interacts with global political forces.
CIGI'11 — An Unfinished House: Filling the Gaps in Global Governance
The background paper for the CIGI conference “An Unfinished House: Filling the Gaps in International Governance” provides a useful collection of facts and observations about the universe of global governance arrangements. It offers a preliminary description of the critical gaps and inadequacies — to assist in thinking about the principal dilemmas and research priorities.
CIGI nuclear expert awarded Harvard Kennedy School fellowship for new academic year
CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay will spend the 2011-12 academic year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, researching the International Atomic Energy Agency as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
After Fukushima, nuclear governance talks intensify at IAEA
In late June, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held five days of closed door ministerial meetings in Vienna to discuss lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown that caused global concern in March 2011. This week we talk to CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay, who is also director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC) at Carleton University, about what these meetings may have accomplished and what the action plan might look like.
IAEA to End Fukushima Meeting Without Agreeing on New Nuclear Safety Rules
In light of the recent IAEA meeting in Vienna, CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay comments to Bloomberg that there has been resistance for decades to mandatory safety standards and IAEA-led checks.
Our Fukushima moment
Drawing parallels and contrasts to Chernobyl, CIGI Chair Thomas Homer-Dixon comments on what the nuclear crisis unfolding in Fukushima, Japan, will mean to the world in 2036. "Fukushima isn’t Chernobyl," he writes. "But it’s an unmitigated disaster, all the same."
CIGI announces Project on Strengthening and Reform of IAEA
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC), today announces the Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency Project. The project seeks to capitalize on the success of the CIGI-CCTC Nuclear Energy Futures (NEF) Project by advancing ideas about the future of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) contained in the NEF’s 2010 report, The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Global Governance.
This Close to Nuclear War: McNamara’s Cuban Missile Crisis
On the 48th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, four distinguished scholars will take the stage at CIGI who have vast experience working with and on Robert McNamara.
Global Insider: India-Canada Relations
India and Canada signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Toronto late last month. In an e-mail interview, Ernie Regehr, a Centre for International Governance Innovation fellow, co-founder of Project Ploughshares, and adjunct associate professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, explains broader India-Canada relations.
The nuclear renaissance-will it always be delayed?
Many of the age-old arguments being used to renounce the nuclear renaissance fail to address the structural changes that have occurred in the industry in the last 20 years.
IAEA faces mushrooming Asia challenge
Iran and the possibility that a North Korean spy infiltrated a Japanese nuclear power plant are not the only challenges facing Yukiya Amano, the Japanese director general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He has major issues across Asia, which is increasingly bullish on nuclear power plants.
Cannon's notes state Israel's nuclear capabilities
Bolstered by the nuclear non-proliferation conference in New York, criticisms of Iran and the ongoing Middle East peace process, renewed questions about Israel's unconfirmed nuclear capabilities have made fresh headlines in recent weeks.
NATO misses another opportunity
NATO foreign ministers met in Estonia last month, and the opportunity they missed was for a serious rethink of the presence of US nuclear weapons in Europe.
CIGI releases comprehensive Nuclear Energy Futures report
Waterloo, Canada – April 12, 2010 – As the nuclear summit in Washington hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama unfolded today, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released the main report of its Nuclear Energy Futures (NEF) project online. The undertaking is the culmination of three-and-a-half years of research into the purported nuclear energy revival and its implications for global governance.