This Week @ FPA – January 14 2013
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| Spotlight on … Vivek Dehejia | |||
FPA in the news |
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Oil & Gas Eurasia: Canada seeks access to new oil markets |
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| AFP reports that Canada is scrambling to build an expansive new oil pipeline network to reach new markets in Asia, as the United States increases its own oil production, but André Plourde, an energy economy specialist and Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, noted that refineries in the Houston, Texas area largely handle heavy crude oil, and are seeing dwindling supplies from key producers in Venezuela and Mexico. | |||
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James Munson: Russia set to dominate Arctic shipping unless Canada, US step up |
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| Russia’s hegemony over Arctic shipping routes is bound to strengthen as long as Canada and the U.S. fail to cooperate over the Northwest Passage, according to a recent policy paper. “We’re probably a decade behind what the Russians are doing,” said John Higginbotham, a former Transport Canada assistant deputy minister who is now NPSIA Senior Distinguished Fellow at Carleton University, and an author of the brief. | |||
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Scott Barber: After critical editorial censored by Chinese government, newspaper embarks on regime-testing landmark strike |
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| Journalists striking at a Chinese newspaper over government censorship will be the first major test for the country’s new generation of leaders, according to academics including Jeremy Paltiel, Carleton University political science professor. In a rare show of public dissent, hundreds of people gathered outside Southern Weekly’s newspaper offices in China on Monday to support the striking journalists. | |||
FPA in focus |
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The New Normal |
| Jonathan Malloy, in the Ottawa Citizen, says “It’s always clichéd to say ‘when historians look back at the year xxxx,’ but when they do, 2012 might be seen as the year Stephen Harper’s Conservatives finally began acting more like a typical Canadian government. The Conservative regime appears increasingly mature and more entrenched than ever, while the NDP and Liberals compete for second place.” More… | |
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Booze in supermarkets isn’t going to end Ontario’s liquor monopoly – The Globe and Mail |
| Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak wants Ontario to “consider all options for increasing choice and competition” in alcohol sales. That includes the sale or partial sale of Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) stores, ending the Beer Store monopoly, and allowing sales in corner or grocery stores. But Frances Woolley, professor of economics at Carleton University, thinks that that may still be a long way off for many reasons. More… |
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Peace dividend of a settlement |
| FPA Senior Fellow Ozay Mehmet writes that with a new year come hopes of better things. “Topping my list of those ‘things’ would be an agreed settlement in Cyprus. The peace dividend would be huge and perfect for a cash-strapped south and a north dependent on Ankara, as well as for Greece and Turkey. Imagine a united Cyprus at the centre of a region of cooperation involving energy, water, tourism, higher education. The list goes on.” More… |
Spotlight on . . . |
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 In Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India (Random House India, December 2012) Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya focus the lens of popular social-science on the confusing mass that is India. Using the methods and tools of economics, as well as borrowing from fields as varied as psychology, anthropology, political science, sociology, and religious studies, Indianomix examines a wide range of historical and contemporary questions to provide a unique, fresh insight into the country.
In the process, Dehejia and Subramanya find answers to entangled questions and discover new angles to old mysteries. Written with sharp, insightful and humorous prose, Indianomix reveals how life’s everyday situations – even something as simple as trying to flag down a taxi – can be better explained when you analyse them with an economic outlook. It isn’t about figuring out where the stock market is heading, what the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy should be or providing a dissertation on the need for economic reforms. Instead it is about debunking myths and calling into question bits of conventional wisdom about India – and showing that when you dig down into the deeper mechanisms hidden below all the confusing patterns in the country, India makes sense after all. More… |
FPA Events |
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MetropolisImmigration, Emigration, and Intercultural Relations in Modern Russia. EconomicsBrown Bag Seminar CommunicationSpeaker’s Series: Images are Disappointingly Concrete Law and Legal StudiesJurisTalk: Troubled Memory 8th Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Emancipatory Approaches: Engaging Law and Social Movements CESEurope: Still a Continent of Multiculturalism? Political SciencePolitical Science Graduate Student Conference: Austerity, Society, and the Value of Political Inquiry SPPAEnv Policy & Econ speaker series – SAVE THE DATE |
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Got Books?FPA is always on the lookout for books for our display case. If you have written a book or chapter of a book, or edited a book or chapter of a book, that has been published in 2012, send a copy to the Dean’s office so we can include these accomplishments in future editions of This Week@FPA.
FPA Faculty are Encouraged to Set up their MyCarletonOne AccountMyCarletonOne, Carleton’s Identity and Access Management System, has now been rolled out to all faculty members. Roughly 30% of all full time faculty members have signed up for their MyCarletonOne account. When surveyed, 90% of respondents found setting up their accounts easy or very easy to do. As a reminder, this account is required for the new Travel and Expense reimbursement system and for any new CCS provisioned services going forward. To set up your MyCarletonOne account, if you have not already done so, please follow the Initialization of MyCarletonOne Accounts for Staff and Faculty instructions found on the CCS website HERE If you experience any issues, please contact the CCS Service Desk at 520-3700.
FPA Reads 2013: Call for Book TitlesWe invite you to suggest titles for FPA Reads 2013. Books may fiction or non-fiction, by a living author of any nationality. Books should connect in some way to one or more themes represented in the Faculty of Public Affairs: governance and policy, media and society, the international realm, and community engagement. Please send the name of the book(s), along with a brief rationale, by email to fpa_reads@carleton.ca by Wed, Jan 16, 2013. For more information and to nominate a book, visit HERE
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