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A quarterly publication of The Centre for International Governance Innovation
DECEMBER 2013
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CIGI has announced the launch of a 10-year, $60 million multidisciplinary research program focused on developing world-class intellectual strength in international law. The CIGI International Law Research Program will provide leading academics, graduate students and legal experts from Canada and abroad with the opportunity to contribute to advancements in international law. Research planning and related activities are expected to commence in early 2014, with full activity to get underway later in the year.
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The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) forum brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate. In October, at the 8th annual IGF meeting in Bali, Indonesia, CIGI experts organized and participated in a workshop panel entitled, "Developing a Strategic Vision for Internet Governance." |
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In Off Balance: The Travails of Institutions That Govern the Global Financial System, award-winning journalist and author Paul Blustein weaves a compelling narrative that details the failings of the institutions in the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008. |
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In November, CIGI Senior Fellow John Higginbotham convened a policy workshop in Yellowknife. Participants considered Arctic marine transportation challenges and Canadian, regional and international governance frameworks through which maritime interests will have to be pursued, given the warming of the Arctic ocean. |
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In the inaugural volume of the CIGI Essays on International Finance, CIGI Senior Fellow Harold James discusses the purposes and functions of central banks, how they have changed dramatically over the years and the importance of central bank cooperation in dealing with international crises. |
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Senior Fellows Richard Gitlin, Brett House and Susan Schadler have been promoting their respective projects on sovereign debt, to International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials and policy makers and scholars. Throughout the fall, the three held presentations at Brookings Institution and the German Marshall Fund US in Washington, Breugel in Brussels, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Information Internationales in Paris, and the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group. |
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In "Bounding Cyber Power: Escalation and Restraint in Global Cyberspace," Ronald J. Deibert examines both the forces that contribute to international cyberspace conflict and alternative methods to preserve the openness and security of the Internet. His paper is the sixth in the CIGI series of Internet Governance Papers. |
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CIGI is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Internet governance and cyber security expert Melissa Hathaway as distinguished fellow. Hathaway will contribute to CIGI's Global Security program and research on Internet governance. CIGI's "Organized Chaos: Reimagining the Internet" project aims to play a constructive role in creating strategies for states committed to multi-stakeholder models of Internet governance.
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CIGI is pleased to announce the appointment of Internet governance expert Bill Graham as senior fellow. Along with recently appointed Melissa Hathaway, Graham will contribute to CIGI's Global Security research on Internet governance and join CIGI's "Organized Chaos: Reimagining the Internet" project.
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CIGI is pleased to announce the appointment of award-winning Canadian writer and journalist John Ibbitson as a senior fellow, effective January 2014. In his one-year fellowship at CIGI, Ibbitson will research, write and speak publicly on issues related to Canada's foreign policy and the country's role in current global affairs, including the global economy and global security.
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At a CIGI Global Policy Forum at Ottawa's Rideau Club, Amar Bhattacharya, Director of the G-24 Secretariat on International Monetary Affairs and Development, assessed the role of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and whether or not a BRICS development bank is needed. |
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The recently appointed Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), John Ravenhill, addressed a CIGI Signature Lecture audience with the probing question, "Is global governance in crisis?" The webcast of his October lecture offers his answer. |
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In this CIGI Signature Lecture, co-sponsored by the BSIA, King's College Professor Mike Hulme walked the audience through the first 25 years of climate change research to examine the evolution of the issue and the diverse discourse that surrounds it. |
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Chairman Nikita S. Khrushchev were deeply shaken by the near catastrophe of the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. On the heels of the crisis, Khrushchev said he looked forward to "six more years" of working with, rather than against, JFK. For a half-century, many have wondered: what might the two leaders have accomplished? In this conversation and multimedia experience, Sergei N. Khrushchev and James Blight explored the historic alternatives. |
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In this CIGI paper, James G. Blight and janet M. Lang examine JFK's cautious skepticism - his "Black Swan logic" - which he used to scrutinize the potentially disastrous consequences of US military intervention. |
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One hundred-fifty high school students from the Waterloo Region were teleported through time to learn about peace and global security on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At the CIGI Global Youth Forum (presented by CIGI and the BSIA), students participated in hands-on crisis simulations, art exhibits and historical film analysis as part of the forum. |
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Martin T. Bohl, Arne C. Klein, and CIGI Senior Fellow Pierre Siklos released the latest paper from their CIGI-sponsored Essays in Financial Governance project. The paper, A Markov Switching Approach to Herding, illustrates the drawbacks in existing models of market herding and proposes a new herding model that is able to link variations in herding behaviour to proxies for sentiment or the macroeconomic environment, by means of time-varying transition probabilities. |
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The annual report chronicles CIGI's work in international affairs as well as its growing influence and impact on global public policy. CIGI's annual reports are available for download (PDF) and digital viewing. To request a printed version of the report, please contact [email protected]. |
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