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June 29, 2015
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The looming possibility of Greece’s departure from the European Union and Euro zone is leaving many to question how the country is allocating its last available euros. CIGI Senior Fellow and regular blogger Kevin Carmichael considers Greece’s military budget and the lack of attention the country’s defense spending has received, in his most recent CIGI blog post.
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Despite more than 20 years of bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including the Six Party Talks with North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, the North Korean nuclear program remains one of the most pressing and intractable security threats in Northeast Asia, a new blog by Benoit Hardy-Chartrand argues.
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Protecting innovators ideas globally is the goal of the intellectual property (IP) law clinic, which returns to Waterloo, Canada, for the second year in a row. The model clinic offers pro bono IP legal expertise to early stage start-ups at an Ontario-based research innovation centre Communitech. Organized by CIGI’s International Law Research Program and the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law, the program provides entrepreneurs with legal services from professionally supervised law students studying IP law. The clinics are a prototype for one part of a wider solution needed to promote prosperity through innovation supported by more robust IP regimes.
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General Tom Lawson’s remarks at the CIGI Global Policy Forum reflected on his years in military service and the current landscape for the Canadian Armed Forces, touching on how Canadians see their armed forces, progress in military culture over the years, and ongoing military assignments in Eastern Europe and Iraq.
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New CIGI Senior Fellow Andrea Bjorklund will tackle the status of state-owned enterprises in investor-state disputes as part of the think tank’s investor state arbitration project. With expertise in international arbitration and litigation, international trade and international investment, Andrea is professor and holder of the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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Conference Report by Oonagh Fitzgerald (@oefitzgerald)
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Director of the International Law Research Program (ILRP) Oonagh Fitzgerald summarizes the roundtable discussions of 26 participants at a consultation workshop addressing emerging issues in international trade and investment law. Dialogue touched on plurilateral versus multilateral trade agreements, trade subsidies and investor-state arbitration between developed countries, among other relevant issues.
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Fixing Climate Governance Policy Brief No. 5 by Sáni Zou, Romain Morel, Thomas Spencer, Ian Cochran and Michel Colombier
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The fifth policy brief in the Fixing Climate Governance series argues that, while crucial, classic climate policies do not appear sufficient to address the challenges from climate change that the financial sector is facing. The report explores how financial policies and climate objectives must be aligned to shift investments efficiently toward a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy.
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Michael Bell
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Traditions of colonialism, autocracy, the rentier state, clientalism, corruption and imagined history all contribute to the dysfunction of Middle East polities. In this episode, Michael Bell, Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, joins co-host Andrew Thompson, CIGI Senior Fellow, for a conversation on the Middle East.
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Hugo Perezcano Díaz
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CIGI Senior Fellow Hugo Perezcano Díaz joins co-host and Senior Fellow Andrew Thompson for a discussion on the 20-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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