Mark Carney is Counting On Cooperation Between Middle Power Countries. Not Going to Happen, says Hal Brands.
Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Many Places, International Solidarity Hal Brands Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Many Places, International Solidarity Hal Brands

Mark Carney is Counting On Cooperation Between Middle Power Countries. Not Going to Happen, says Hal Brands.

Mark Carney says the ‘rules-based’ international order is over. The United States is demanding that other countries subject themselves to more direct rule by the US, so that America can fend off the threat from China. Carney says middle power countries can cooperate and resist. Hal Brands is highly skeptical that this can work.

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The New Rules for Success in Today's World Economy.
Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Many Places, International Solidarity Michael Beckley Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Many Places, International Solidarity Michael Beckley

The New Rules for Success in Today's World Economy.

What do both Mark Carney and Donald Trump see when they look at today’s ‘free enterprise plus empire’ world system? Trump celebrates, and Carney bewails, that ‘My Country First’ has replaced the old ‘Rules-Based’ System. Michael Beckley provides detailed examples of poor countries that have succeeded within the old system (and how). And he spells out how they can still succeed in the new one.

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Mark Carney. Call a Political Sovereignty Election.
Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Canada, International Solidarity John Cleveland Strategy/Tactics, Society Level, Canada, International Solidarity John Cleveland

Mark Carney. Call a Political Sovereignty Election.

Call his bluff. Reject appeasement. Donald Trump is demanding an endless list of concessions from Canada in order to get a trade deal. He will never stop. Mark Carney, call a federal election. Ask voters to give you a mandate to demand that any deal respect Canada’s political sovereignty.

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