International Relations & Development
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From ![]() The government’s spin, part threeFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
My last example of the government’s misleading responses to concerns about the FIPA comes from the legal challenge brought by the Hupacasath First Nation. | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() The government’s spin, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Despite the Conservatives’ efforts to limit debate, other politicians were able to use the process at the House of Commons trade committee, and elsewhere in Parliament, to put important … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! "The hottest of hot spots"From: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at the period of the late 2000s, when Libya’s uneasy opening to foreign investment exacerbated internal political battles while SNC-Lavalin courted the Qadaffi sons with … | Owen Schalk | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Just Society and the JamahiriyaFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter explains how during the late 1960s Pierre Trudeau continued Canada’s longstanding pattern of backing corporate expansion and Cold War anti-communism abroad. In contrast, … | Owen Schalk | 23 | 2025 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() “The largest energy project in the entire world”From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes reports about why the Harper Government would support this plan tieing their support to the oil sands and finds the government seemed anxious for China to support Canada’s resource … | Gus Van Harten | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The legal challenge to the FIPA, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The public opposition to the China FIPA included thousands of people who took steps to support an effort by the Hupacasath First Nation, an aboriginal community on Vancouver Island in British … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() The legal challenge to the FIPA, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Through focusing on the arguments of the government’s foreign investment expert, J. Christopher Thomas, and how the courts favoured his opinions Van Harten outlines how the legal challenge … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Mad DogFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to … | Owen Schalk | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact!From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
It is especially telling that the government, in its environmental assessment of the China FIPA, discounted entirely the possibility of environmental impacts of new Chinese investment in Canada. … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Middle Power Advantage in the Age of AI |
From Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World: | Steven Wang | 10 | 2026 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Minister’s DownfallFrom: Canada is Not Back |
A rare insider’s perspective on the operation of the Trudeau cabinet and PMO. Describes Justin Trudeau’s relationship with Stephane Dion while Dion served as Minister of Foreign … | Jocelyn Coulon | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The multipolar worldFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … | Owen Schalk | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The nationalization threatFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … | Owen Schalk | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
![]() The Next Big Thing |
Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper columns on Canadian politics and public policy. To both celebrate his … | Philip Lee | 208 | 2014 | View |
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From ![]() The North American Deep Integration Agenda:A Critical Overview From: Living with Uncle |
Addresses the concept of deep integration—still largely unknown in the Canadian public arena—by addressing six questions:What is it? Where did it come from and where is it now? Where … | Bruce Campbell | 23 | 2006 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Petroleum Game: New RealitiesFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Discusses the patterns of Western military and economic interventions during the twenty-first century, and petroleum’s largely hidden role in world politics. US pressures have influenced … | John Foster | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |










