July, 2012

Friday, July 27, 2012

Un viaje clave a India y China

Fernando Reyes Matta
El Diario Financiero (Santiago, Chile)

Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine comments on the upcoming CELAC summit in New Delhi. (NOTE: This article in only available in Spanish.)

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

What Does the Future Hold for India-Latin America Relations?

Latin America Advisor (Washington, D.C.)

"The India-CELAC Dialogue could not be more timely. It joins Latin America's new regionalism with the new India," says CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine, commenting on the future of India-Latin America relations, part of the Latin America Advisor's featured Q and A.

Monday, July 23, 2012

The worst of the global beast

The Hindu

"The co-editors of this slim volume...have rendered great service by bringing together eminent scholars and columnists from all the continents who have presented compact and readable contributions relating to the impact of the dark forces of globalization around the world," writes Chinmaya R. Gharekhan in reviewing The Dark Side of Globalization, which is co-edited by CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Rebels fight Syrian troops in two biggest cities

CTV News Staff
CTV News Channel

In an interview with CTV News Channel, CIGI Senior Fellow Bessma Momani comments that the fighting in Damascus and Aleppo signals at least the beginning of the end for Syria's Assad regime. She suggests that the international community should immediately begin drafting reforms for the Syrian security sector, political organizations and constitution.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

UN's Syria Strategy

CBC News

CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker speaks to CBC News on the UN draft resolution that called for non-military sanctions against the government of Bashar al-Assad. The resolution was vetoed by Russia and China.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Reeling Syria Regime

CBC News

CIGI Senior Fellow Bessma Momani speaks to CBC News about rebel gains against the Assad regime, and China and Russia's veto of UN Syria sanctions

Monday, July 16, 2012

Syria conflict: diplomacy or action?

Power and Politics, CBC News

CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker gives an interview to CBC News's Power and Politics on the Syrian conflict.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ontario universities promise funding guide amid Carleton donor backlash

James Bradshaw
The Globe and Mail

CIGI Chair of Global Systems Thomas Homer-Dixon comments on a proposed public-private partnership at Carleton University.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Has the Iranian Embassy done anything wrong?

Lee Berthiaume
Postmedia News

CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker speaks to Postmedia News regarding Iran's interest in recruiting ethnic Iranians in Canada to work for Tehran.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Donor deals should be open: Carleton faculty

Bruce Cheadle
The Canadian Press

A Canadian Press story on universities' public-private partnerships refers to CIGI's proposed international law program and quotes CIGI Distinguished Fellow and Director of Global Security Fen Osler Hampson.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Australia's nuclear dilemma

Maria Rost Rublee
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Maria Rost Rublee, author of the award-winning book Nonproliferation Norms and a member of the international Fissile Material Working Group, cites CIGI Senior Fellow Trevor Findlay's recent report on the IAEA.

Monday, July 9, 2012

India and Latin America

Foreign Policy Research Centre Journal (New Delhi)

"Globalization may not have meant 'the end of history,' in Francis Fukuyama's famous phrase, but it has meant 'the end of geography' as we have known it," notes CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine, commenting on Indo-Latin American partnerships.