This Week @ FPA – November 19 2012
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| Monday, November 19, 2012 |  |
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| Spotlight on … Laura Macdonald | |||
FPA in the news |
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Bruce Cheadle: $750,000 spent to track ethnic-media perceptions of Kenney |
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| Robert Shepherd, a Carleton University expert in public governance and ethics, said to iPolitics that the Harper government has spent a great deal of time, energy and public dollars on communications. “This is all about understanding where the votes are,” Shepherd said in an interview. | |||
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MetroMedia: Halton courts slipping into crisis situation, judge warns |
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| John Hale, a criminal defence lawyer and lecturer at Carleton University, says the issue of cases being dismissed because of delays — a significant problem in the early 1990s — is creeping back up again, particularly in growing urban areas. | |||
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Liz Kalaugher: Sustainable development is not dead |
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| Fortunately for the Cardiff International Conference on Sustainable Place Making, James Meadowcroft from Carleton University, speaking at the end of the first day on “Is sustainable development dead?” decided that it wasn’t. But it’s not in great shape, according an article on environmentalresearchweb.org. | |||
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FPA in focus |
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America’s new liberal hour |
| Andrew Cohen, professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University, writes in the Ottawa citizen that: “Days before the presidential election, the New York Times ran a facetious story on disaffected Americans threatening to move to Canada if Mitt Romney won. While we have heard those threats before — most recently after George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004 — we have yet to see that biblical exodus.” More… | |
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Could the United States and China go to war? |
| Fen Hampson, distinguished fellow and director of the global security program and chancellor’s professor with NPSIA and Derek Burney, a former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and a visiting professor and senior distinguished fellow at Carleton, say: “China selects its new leader much like the College of Cardinals chooses a new pope, albeit without white smoke (or mirrors). The Americans follow a different technique in choosing a president. The consequences of both processes this year, and the degree to which those selected are able to come to terms with one another, will be the most important determinant of global stability for the next four years.” More… |
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Interview of Jeremy Paltiel: China’s growth mode transition. |
| Ahead of the congress, CNC correspondent Mick Gzowski spoke to Jeremy Paltiel, professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, to get his thoughts on China’s economic reforms. (video) More… |
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Spotlight on . . . |
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 A new book – North America in Question – edited by Laura Macdonald, professor in the department of Political Science at Carleton University and Jeffrey Ayres, a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Saint Michael’s College, begins by reviewing the recent trajectories and events that have undermined North America’s trilateral relationship, then addresses concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders, women’s and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits. Although demonstrating that many informal dimensions of North American integration continue to flourish, the contributors assess whether the future will hold greater economic instability, security crises, and emerging bilateral relationships. More… |
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FPA Events |
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Law & Legal StudiesChet Mitchell Lecture: How Lochner Became Disembedded CSERCLaunch of the 2012 World Energy Outlook Nuclear Energy: Dead or Alive? CESEU Responses to the Global Crisis: Challenges for Central European Countries EconomicsCUES-CGES presentation: “Two Plus Two Equals How Much? What the Chattering Classes Don’t Know about Economics” EURUS“Uzbekistan: 20 Years under an Independent Constitution” “Insurgent Violence in the North Caucasus: Pathways and Trajectories Explaining Insurgent Participation” Political ScienceWildrose Wildcard: Political Change in Alberta? |
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