Op-Eds Archive
Jean-Claude Duvalier should be tried for more than corruption
In an op-ed to The Toronto Star, CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine argues that "the last thing (Haiti) needs right now is a resurfacing of Duvalierism."
Our peak oil premium
CIGI Chair of Global System Thomas Homer-Dixon writes on "Our peak oil premium." He argues that we're much closer to an oil peak than most people acknowledge.
Russia and China provide cover for Assad’s Syria
In an op-ed to The Toronto Star, CIGI Senior Fellow Bessma Momani argues that "as the death toll continues to rise above 5,000 Syrian lives, it is time to come to terms with the likelihood of a protracted stalemate."
Dear Mr Wolf… Reflections for the Magic Mountain
CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek asks: Can Davos 2012 offer real alternatives or will it serve up a smiling, gritted-teeth espousal that "business as usual" can and should be sustained?
Art frames terror and security
In an op-ed to The Waterloo Region Record, CIGI Research Officer Michael Lawrence looks at how artists, like Daisy Rockwell, are contributing to discussions on global security.
A World View of the Economy in 2012
In his latest to Huffington Post Canada, CIGI Distinguished Fellow Andrew Cooper looks at what some of the possible developments will be in the global economy for 2012.
Conservatives - Is it 1930 Already?
In light of David Cameron’s veto on a Euro-surveillance treaty, CIGI Distinguished Fellow Andrew Cooper looks at how echoes of the past are shaping British policy during hard economic times. Are contemporary Conservatives in the UK a far departure from those of the 1930s?
2012: the year of the unreasonable
"Time will tell whether 2012 will be a disaster on the scale that Lagarde predicts, and let's hope not. But, as predictions go, one cannot go far wrong in saying that 2012 is going to be ghastly for, quite literally, hundreds of millions of people," warns CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek.
Brazil: South America’s tiger
CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine writes in The Toronto Star that "twenty years from now, we can expect to see Brazil as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as the prime leader of a South America that will have become one of the most vigorous and prosperous regions of the world, and as a key international player."
We’re losing our past to technology
"Today’s information technology is creating what we might call an Age of Ephemera. Our unprecedented ability to store and transfer gargantuan amounts of information obscures this information’s modern fragility," argues Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs
On Land Lost and Justice Bought
In an op-ed to The Mark, CIGI Research Officer Geoff Burt recounts his experience in Haiti and writes that "the lack of land titles leaves Haiti’s poor at the mercy of anyone with the means to take advantage of the confusion and snatch disputed land."
Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit
In an op-ed to The Globe and Mail, CIGI Chair of Global Systems Thomas Homer-Dixon writes that "dealing with climate change is a prerequisite for prosperity this century – for all people on this planet."