This Week @ FPA – October 15, 2012
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| Spotlight on … Melissa Haussman | |||
FPA in the news |
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Ian Austen: Canada marks bicentennial of War of 1812 |
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| Carleton Journalism professor and columnist Andrew Cohen has some sharp criticism for the Harper government’s publicity of The War of 1812 and how it is being used as propaganda. | |||
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Alan M. Field: For Canada, the road to Asia may pass through Australia |
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| Michael Hart, a professor at the NPSIA of Carleton University says in an article at canadiansailings.ca that “Unlike Australia, which sits in an otherwise remote corner of the Southern Hemisphere, Canada borders directly on the United States, the largest economy in the world…” | |||
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Jennifer Ditchburn: Beef plant, government have mishandled communications on E. coli issue: experts |
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| There was a time when budding young public relations students were given two case studies as the best and worst communications in modern corporate history: the Tylenol recall of 1982 (best), and the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 (worst). Now communications professor Josh Greenberg thinks the E. coli issue may be another modern example of poor communications. | |||
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FPA in focus |
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Who’s Watching You on the Internet? |
| According to Dwayne Winseck in the Huffington Post, we reach certain points in time, what the critical media scholar Robert McChesney calls “critical junctures,” or that the sociologist and media historian Paul Starr calls “constitutive moments.” Now is one such moment, and choices and decisions made now could tilt the evolution of the network media ecology in Canada toward a more closed, surveilled and centralized regime instead of an open one that strives to put as much of the internet’s capabilities into as many people’s hands as possible. More… | |
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Fear not China; Forget fantasies of Communists marching into Edmonton |
| In the National Post, Carleton’s Jeremy Paltiel says that a number of public figures have pronounced themselves on CNOOC’s purchase of Nexen Inc. and many have sounded an alarm about China and the peculiar threat of state-owned firms. Let’s get things straight. State-owned oil firms include some of the largest owners of oil and gas reserves throughout the world. Even Canada had a flagship state-owned oil firm until quite recently — PetroCan. But now the hue and cry goes that Petro can but China can’t. China is uniquely opaque, apparently. Have you been to Saudi Arabia lately? More… |
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Exchange Relationships and the Realities of Alliances |
| The Paterson Chair in International Affairs, Steve Saideman, said in his blog that “…there are Canadians serving in Kandahar! Gasp! Yes, Prime Minister Harper had promised to get out of Kandahar and never to come back. Yet, there are Canadian Forces in Kandahar apparently. How could this be? Canada has exchange relationships with its allies, especially the US, UK and Australia. So, Canada sends its officers to work in the militaries of its friends and vice versa. The idea is to learn how the allies operate and to develop relationships that might be handy on the battlefield some day. More… |
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Spotlight on . . . |
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 A new edition of a long-favoured text in the field, the eighth edition of Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges, co-authored by Melissa Haussman, Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University and Charles Hauss, has been released. Professor Haussman teaches in both the U.S. politics and comparative North American fields and her scholarship has generally focused on questions of women’s access to power through gendered policymaking on reproductive rights in North America and representation in political institutions. More… |
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FPA Events |
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SPPASustainable Energy Speaker Series: A talk with Dr. Stephen Hill EURUSAtlantic Council of Canada Roundtable Discussion on Ukraine Dean’s OfficeKatherine A.H. Graham Lecture in Aboriginal Policy ResearchCelebration of Innovation 2012 Symposium CESEnvironment Days: Public Lecture Political ScienceAmerica’s Imperial Impulse Law and Legal StudiesCritical Law, Gender, and Sexualities Speaker Series EconomicsCGES-CUES presentation: “Action Figure or Doll? How the Global Trade Regime Confuses Everyone” |
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