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CIGI Experts Predict Global Governance Challenges for 2012
This week, CIGI experts David Runnalls, Eric Helleiner, Gregory Chin and Mark Sedra share their thoughts on what 2012 will bring in terms of environment and energy, the global economy, global development and global security challenges.
The Afghan exit strategy is fraught with peril
CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra and CIGI research officers Geoff Burt and Michael Lawrence argue that as the 2014 target for troop withdrawal looms in Afghanistan, NATO’s training of security forces is spotty and unsustainable.
Syria an unlikely target for NATO
In an op-ed to The Toronto Star, CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra says that "the international consensus, local demand, strategic logic and urgent western interests that facilitated the Libyan intervention are not present in Syria."
How the Mission in Afghanistan Changed Canada
In The Mark's three part series on the outcomes and legacy of the war in Afghanistan, CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra's third contribution discusses how the war in Afghanistan changed Canada.
How the Afghan Mission Failed
In The Mark's three part series on the outcomes and legacy of the war in Afghanistan, CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra's second contribution discusses the factors that led to NATO's failure.
Afghanistan Will Pay for NATO's Failures
In The Mark's three part series on the outcomes and legacy of the war in Afghanistan, CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra's first contribution argues that NATO's intervention has been a massive failure and suggests that Afghans will face a conflict-ridden future.
CIGI experts discuss governing Libya after Gadhafi
As Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) forces continue their invasion of Tripoli, we speak to CIGI experts Gordon Smith, Bessma Momani and Mark Sedra about what steps the rebel alliance, and global governance bodies, should take to create a more peaceful and democratic order after the seemingly inevitable demise of the Muammar Gadhafi regime.
'Pre-1967' speech important reminder of global consensus on Israel-Palestine
After a week when US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both made major policy speeches on the future of Israel-Palestine peace negotiations, there has been widespread disappointment that neither leader placed anything constructive on the table to re-start talks. In this interview we speak to CIGI Senior Fellow and international security expert Mark Sedra, who says that Obama’s posturing was a necessary starting point for future talks, and with a commitment to creative and sustained negotiations, a resolution to the conflict is not impossible.
Revolution 2.0: democracy promotion in the age of social media
Events in Egypt, Tunisia and even the 2009 post-election protests in Iran have shown the focus of Western efforts needs to be on strengthening the Web 2.0 platforms that can facilitate the networking of activists, the sharing of ideas and the organization of movements, writes Mark Sedra in The Globe and Mail.
How to Talk About Afghanistan
Following the Obama administration's recent review of the Afghan war, CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra argues that it's time for Canada's government to be frank with Canadians: the mission in Afghanistan will continue to be a tough slog, but success, however unlikely, is still possible. Sedra says a failure of NATO governments to adequately communicate the goals and status of the war has been one of the hallmarks of the international community’s nine-year engagement in Afghanistan.