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Global Summitry Report
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Looking for a Convention for the High Seas
Farah Mustafa Marine and coastal biodiversity affect the livelihoods of more than three billion people. However, the UN reports that 40 percent of worldwide marine life is affected by human […]
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Working list of UN Summits
Farah Mustafa Following the model of the family of Gx Summits, the United Nations (UN) appears to have initiated the use of summitry as a mechanism of global collaboration, unity, […]
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World Humanitarian Summit
Farah Mustafa Man-made crises, natural disasters, and disease have forced record numbers of people to flee from their homes. The United Nations says that a migration of this magnitude has […]
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World Trade Organization’s Special and Differential Problems
Digvijay Mehra, Master of Global Affairs Candidate, Munk School of Global Affairs Seven decades of painstaking multilateral trade negotiations are poised for a spectacular collapse this holiday season. The United […]
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A Peacefully Emerging China?
Grace Guo Garth Evans, Australia’s former minister of foreign affairs once famously called the Asian Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) “four adjectives in search of a noun”. Since its inception in […]
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Bringing the International Tax Rules into the 21st Century: The Progress Made So Far
Luisa Fernanda Ríos The rapid change that the global financial system has experienced recently has outpaced tax systems around the world. Governments are facing increasing difficulties when trying to collect […]
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The G7+ and a New Deal for Fragile and Conflict Affected States
Mary Milner Summary Haiti. The Democratic Republic of Congo. Timor-Leste. These are countries emblematic of the world’s poorest countries. They have experienced profound human tragedies in recent decades. They are […]
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The Impact of the Internationalization of the Chinese Economy for Global Economic Growth
Luisa Fernanda Ríos One of the Australia’s G20 2014 Presidency major concerns is promoting stronger economic growth and making the global economy more resilient to future shocks. In recent years, […]
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The BRICS summit and the long-term gamble
Danilo Carvalho Moura When he wrote his now-famous Goldman Sachs report that coined the term BRIC to refer to Brazil, Russia, India and China, Jim O’Neill was describing something we […]
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Eroding international economic governance or strengthening it? The case of the creation of the BRICS Bank and of the CRA
Bruno De Marco Lopes On July 14-16, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will gather for its 6th summit. The key announcements we have been told to […]
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