Canada Needs a Biosecurity Strategy, Urgently
The Government of Canada must follow the United Kingdom’s lead by developing a meaningful and measurable strategy that is uniquely devoted to biosecurity.
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Western Governments Confront the Growing Threat of Ransomware
While the overall motivation behind ransomware attacks is greed, attacks that target critical infrastructure are inherently disruptive to states as well.
A 5G Action Plan for Canada: Learning from Britain, Working with the United States
Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States took their eye off the ball and missed the opportunity to be a significant global player in 5G. Britain and the United States have taken steps to catch up. Canada must do the same.
In the New Global Economy, Opportunity Carries Risk: Is Canada Ready?
As an entrepreneurial trading nation, Canada must court risk — while hedging against it — to ensure we have the economic capacity that ultimately underpins our national security.
China and E-commerce: The Long and Winding Road
China’s conservative approach to e-commerce is reflected in its free trade agreements. The country’s first such agreements to include e-commerce provisions were signed in 2015 with Australia and Korea.
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Modern Conflict and Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous systems are revolutionizing our lives, but they present clear international security concerns. Despite the risks, emerging technologies are increasingly applied as tools for cybersecurity and, in some cases, cyberwarfare. In this series, experts explore digital threats to democracy and security, and the geopolitical tensions they create.
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Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis
The impact of COVID-19 both globally and in Canada has raised important questions about best practices with regard to global and domestic health surveillance, early warning and preparedness. Critical to an understanding of these issues is a clear-sighted appreciation of the interface between health security and national security. As the world embarks on an intense effort to explain the onset of the pandemic and to learn lessons from the global response, it will be vital to develop and sustain a public policy debate about the role of security and intelligence institutions in protecting societies against pandemic outbreaks. This essay series — designed to bridge academic and practitioner knowledge — aims to make a high-impact contribution to that debate.
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Global Cooperation after COVID-19
We are in the midst of fighting the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis, but it is already clear that the impacts will be manifold and enduring. It is not too early to reflect on the lasting impact that the outbreak is sure to have on global cooperation, globalization, faith in public action and in science, social cohesion, and the trade-off between civil liberties and personal privacy.
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- Rohinton P. Medhora
- Bessma Momani
- E. Richard Gold
- Ilona Kickbusch
- Jean Lebel
- Michael Chertoff
- Susan Etlinger
- Teresa Scassa
- Darrell Bricker
- Donald Bobiash
- Melissa Hathaway
- Jennifer Welsh
- Myra J. Tawfik
- Hongying Wang
- Manjeet Kripalani
- José María Fanelli
- Benno Ndulu
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro
- Mark Kruger
- Simon J. Evenett
- Hector Torres
- Taylor Owen
- Ben Scott
- Arif Lalani
Modernizing the World Trade Organization
An essay series on the World Trade Organization's response to rapid economic, political, social, technological and environmental change.
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- Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
- Rohinton P. Medhora
- Thomas Cottier
- Bernard M. Hoekman
- Petros Mavroidis
- Valerie Hughes
- Giorgio Sacerdoti
- Laura Lane
- Penelope Naas
- Risa Schwartz
- Judy Whiteduck
- Aaron Cosbey
- Andrei Marcu
- Chin Leng Lim
- Spyros Maniatis
- Jim Stanford
- Mira Burri
- Dan Ciuriak
- Henry Gao
- Balakrishnan Rajagopal
- Chios Carmody
- Amrita Narlikar
- Debra Steger
Models for Platform Governance
Despite growing calls for global platform governance, no solution has been found. To begin to address this, CIGI has convened leading thinkers to explore new models for governing digital platforms. Given their unprecedented influence on democracy and the global economy alike, a cohesive framework for platform governance is crucial.
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Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Agreements
The 2017 Buenos Aires Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment emphasized the key relationship between trade policy and gender, and World Trade Organization members are beginning to take steps to improve transparency, share best practices, gather data and include gender considerations in trade negotiations. But there is much more to be done.
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Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust
On one hand, technology has led to convenience, efficiency and wealth creation. On the other hand, this great push to digitize society has meant building inherent vulnerability into the core of the economic model. This is all taking place atop a deeply fragmented and underdeveloped system of global rules.
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- Aaron Shull
- Andre Boysen
- Neil Desai
- Robert Fay
- Wallace (Wally) Trenholm
- Melissa Hathaway
- Byron Holland
- Eric Jardine
- Elizabeth F. Judge
- Michael Pal
- Christian Leuprecht
- David Lyon
- Tyson Macaulay
- Michael Mason
- Matthew Spoke
- Michele Mosca
- Bill Munson
- David Mussington
- Paul Vallée
- Christopher S. Yoo
- Stephanie Carvin
Environmental Challenges on Indigenous Lands
Indigenous lands are under ever-increasing pressure from governments and extractive sector corporations that are eager to encourage economic development and foreign investment.
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Reshaping Trade through Women's Economic Empowerment
At the December 2017 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires, 118 WTO members joined forces to conclude the Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment.
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- Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
- Susana Malcorra
- François-Philippe Champagne
- Arancha González
- Nursel Aydiner-Avsar
- Chiara Piovani
- Diane Elson
- Marzia Fontana
- Rohini Acharya
- Patricia Goff
- Maria Panezi
- Stephanie Honey
- Arjan de Haan
- Balakrishnan Rajagopal
- Cherise Valles
- Mona Pinchis-Paulsen
- Meg Kinnear
- Otylia Babiak
- Julia Seiermann
- Simonetta Zarrilli
- Debra Steger
- Luz María de la Mora
- Anastassia Beliakova
- Susan Baka
Brexit's Impact on International Law
In this series, international law experts from Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, comment on Brexit’s international and domestic law and governance implications.