Blog - Trump: Is There Method in His Madness?

In looking at President Trump’s actions, it seems that all is chaos. But there are consistent elements in an approach which is transactional to the core.

The first consistent element is that History has no meaning and the future is another country. But relationships between countries aren’t like that. A leader has to think about the health of the overall relationship.

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Blog - Will Carney’s “Third Path” Suffer the Fate of the “Third Option”?

Half a century after Canada’s “Third Option” sought – unsuccessfully – to reduce economic dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling on middle powers to chart a new “third path” in a fractured global order. Revisiting the lessons of the 1970s, Paul Meyer asks whether today’s vision of collective middle-power action can overcome the structural forces that undermined earlier efforts – or whether it risks repeating history unless matched with concrete strategy and institutional innovation.

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Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Anti-Trafficking and Forced Labour Governance: Private Power and Public Policy

Twenty-five years after adopting the U.N. Trafficking Protocol, governments have made anti-trafficking and anti-forced labor a priority within public policy. This talk will identify and examine key aspects of the contemporary governance regime developed to address this endemic problem.

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