A "Big Brother" dystopia once seemed reserved for authoritarian regimes, but today, liberal democratic governments are deploying invasive digital technologies. In this article, Bessma Momani explains why contact-tracing apps are raising valid concerns about civil liberties.
The economic interdependence that once underpinned an open and peaceful world can be preserved, but only if middle powers pull together. Hector Torres consider what it will take to reform the institutional architecture that shaped globalization.
"Despite how much we feel for the multilateral architecture which allowed the world to prosper quite successfully since the Second World War, that architecture needs serious reforms," Hector Torres said in an interview with The Telegraph.
The world faced its last major global crisis 12 years ago, and out of it emerged the Group of Twenty. Now, as Thomas Bernes writes, the G20 response to the COVID-19 crisis is tepid and totally inadequate to the challenge.
Robert Fay and Dan Ciuriak explain how data has changed the economy and how COVID-19 has expedited the digital transformation. Learn how policy will require an even greater focus on the data-driven economy in order to ensure long-term growth in a post-COVID world.
President Xi Jinping's control over policy making may have pushed through some difficult economic reforms, but it also exacerbated the existing bureaucratic problems in China’s political economy. In this paper (the final piece in a three-part series), Alex He explores decision-making process in China.
Jun. 21 – 12:00 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): On National Indigenous Peoples Day, join us for a fire and feast offering led by Minogiizhigokwe/Kathy Absolon, Anishinaabe kwe storyteller and knowledge carrier. This event is hosted in partnership by Indigenous Initiatives at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Centre for Indigegogy and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and will take place on the Zoom video conferencing platform.
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