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The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) offers solutions to pressing governance challenges, build ideas for global change through world class research and dialogue, and propose innovative solutions to global challenges. CIGI Papers present well-considered policy positions and/or research findings, insights or data relevant to policy debates and decision making.

Publishers: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Publications: Data Is Dangerous: Comparing the Risks that the United States, Canada and Germany See in Data Troves
A Plurilateral “Single Data Area” is the Solution to Canada’s Data Trilemma
The Belt and Road Initiative: Motivations, Financing, Expansion and Challenges of Xi’s Ever-expanding Strategy
What Is a Climate Response Measure? Breaking the Trade Taboo in Confronting Climate Change
International Cooperation: Is the Multilateral System Helping?
Brexit and Human Rights
Renegotiating the EU-UK Trade Relationship: Lessons from NAFTA
Deglobalization as a Global Challenge
From Technology transfer to Technology Absorption: Addressing Climate Technology Gaps in Africa
Getting Beyond Norms: When Violating the Agreement becomes Customary Practice
Guaranteeing Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Bargaining for Resolution
Modernizing NAFTA: A New Deal for the North American Economy in the Twenty-first Century
Beyond Access: Addressing Digital Inequality in Africa
Renewable Energy Projects for Sustainable Development: Financing Options and Policy Alternatives
Challenges in Eradicating Corruption in the Indonesian Presidential System
The Role of Resettlement in Refugee Responsibility Sharing
When Norms are not Enough: Understanding the Principle and Practice of Burden and Responsibility Sharing for Refugees
Corporate Accountability for a Free and Open Internet
International Mobility of Canadian Inventors and the Canadian Knowledge Economy
Trade Agreements as Vectors for the Nagoya Protocol´s Implementation
Central European Perspectives on Investor-State Arbitration (ISA): Practical Experiences and Theoretical Concerns
Internet Intermediaries as Platforms for Expression and Innovation
Spain and Investment Arbitration: The Renewable Energy Explosion
Investor-State Arbitration and its Discontents: Options for the Government of Canada
The Impact of the NAFTA Experience on Canadian Policy Concerning Investor-State Arbitration
Did the Paris Agreement Fail to Incorporate Human Rights in Operative Provisions?
Making the Most of CETA: A Complete and Effective Implementation is Key to Realizing the Agreement’s Full Potential
The Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels in Canada
The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Governance: The Need for a Human Rights-Based Component
Realizing Indigenous Rights in International Environmental Law: A Canadian Perspective
The Impact of the EU-Turkey Statement on Protection and Reception: The Case of Greece
A History of Investment Arbitration and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Germany
Multi-Stakeholderism: Anatomy of an Inchoate Global Institution
Investor-State Dispute in US Law, Politics and Practice: The Debate Continues
The European Commission Proposal for an Investment Court System: Out with the Old, In with the New?
Ethics in the Internet Environment
An Experienced, Developed Democracy: Canada and Investor-State Arbitration
One Internet: An Evidentiary Basis for Policy Making on Internet Universality and Fragmentation
Final Report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance: One Internet
Misperceptions, Threat Inflation and Mistrust in China-Japan Relations
Responding to Security Challenges in East Asia: Three Perspectives
One in Three: Internet Governance and Children’s Rights
Fixing Climate Governance Through Effective Technology Partnerships
Climate Change and Human Rights: How? Where? When?
When CO2 Goes to Geneva: Taxing Carbon across Borders — Without Violating WTO Obligations
Geopolitics at the World's Pivot: Exploring Central Asia's Security Challenges
Climate Technology and Partnerships: Form, Function and Impact
The Impact of Financial Sector Sustainability Regulations on Banks
The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights
The Tor Dark Net
The Dark Web Dilemma: Tor, Anonymity and Online Policing
Global Cyberspace is Safer than You Think: Real Trends in Cybercrime
The Ideological Conflict Project
The Emergence of Contention in Global Internet Governance
European Banking Union, Three Years On
The Environmental Goods Agreement: A Piece of the Puzzle
Conflict in Africa: Diagnosis and Response
Solving the International Internet Policy Coordination Problem
Net Neutrality: Reflections on the Current Debate
Addressing the Impact of Data Location Regulation in Financial Services
Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience in East Africa
Sequencing RMB Internationalization
Peeling NAFTA Layers: Twenty Years After
Domestic Sources and RMB Internationalization
Connected Choices: How the Internet is Challenging Sovereign Decisions
The IMF as Just One Creditor: Who's in Charge When a Country Can't Pay
Development of Sustainability and Green Banking Regulations
Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Issues Paper
Debt Reprofiling, Debt Restructuring and the Current Situation in Ukraine
Laid Low: The IMF, the Euro Zone and the First Rescue of Greece
Internationalization of the Renminbi: Developments, Problems and Influences
On the Nature of the Internet
Understanding Digital Intelligence and the Norms that Might Govern It
The Global Liquidity Safety Net: Institutional Cooperation on Precautionary Facilities and Central Bank Swaps
The Shadow Banking System of China and International Regulatory Cooperation
Financial Inclusion and Global Regulatory Standards
ICANN: Bridging the Trust Gap
Capital Flows and Capital Account Management in Selected Asian Economies
International Regulatory Cooperation on the Resolution of Financial Institutions
A Primer on Globally Harmonizing Internet Jurisdiction and Regulations
Short-Selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are they Interconnected
Over their Heads: The IMF and the Prelude to the Euro-Zone Crisis
The Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security
Changing Global Financial Governance
The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone
The Influence of RMB Internationalization on the Chinese Economy: Theory and Policy
The Risk of Derivatives: Canadian Lessons for Europe and the G20
Sovereign Bond Contract Reform
Completing the G20’s Program to Reform Global Financial Regulation
Sustainable Northern Development: The Case for an Arctic Development Bank
The Trade on Services Agreement: Plurilateral Progress Or Game-Changing Gamble?
Legal Interoperability as a Tool for Combatting Fragmentation
From ´Taoguang Yanghui´ to ´Yousuo Zuowei´: China´s Engagement in Financial Minilateralism
Comments on the September 29, 2014 FSB Consultative Document,
Innovations in Global Governance: Toward a Distributed Internet Governance Ecosystem
Disclosure-Based Governance for Climate Engineering Research
United Nations Peace Building in Sierra Leone
Legal Mechanisms for Governing the Transition of Key Domain Name Functions to the Global Multi-stakeholder Community
The State-Owned Enterprises Issue in China's Prospective Trade Negotiations
The Environmental Risk Disclosure Regime
China in the G20 Summitry
China and Sovereign Debt Restructuring
The Effect of Index Futures Trading on Volatility
African Perspectives on Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Reforming the Global Architecture of Financial Regulation
Organizational Culture, Learning and Structure in Central Banks
Crisis Management Mechanisms: Pathologies and Pitfalls
China's Goals in the G20
The Role of International Trade in the Rise of the New Zealand Dairy Industry from its Beginnings to the Fronterra Era
Equator Principles Reporting
What Drove the Mid-2000s' Explosiveness in Alternative Energy Stock Prices?
Transatlantic Economic Agreements
China and Global Mega Trade Deals
Global Cybercrime
Tipping the Scale: An Analysis of Global Swing States in the Internet Governance Debate
Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Development Advancement Through International Organizations
Tipping the Scale: An Analysis of Global Swing States in the Internet Governance Debate
The Regime Complex for Managing Global Cyber Activities
Crying Over Spilt Milk: The History of Dairy Supply Management and its Role in Recent Trade Negotiations
The Big Break: The Conservative Transformation of Canada's Foreign Policy
Boxing with Elephants: Can Canada Punch above its Weight in Global Financial Governance?
A Blueprint for a Sovereign Debt Forum
Institutional Arrangements for Climate Finance
Vertically Integrated Peace Building and Community Violence Reduction in Haiti
The Equator Principles
A Fine Balance: The EU and the Process of Normalizing Kosovo-Serbia Relations
Canadian-Australian Opportunities for Defence Procurement and Industry Cooperation
The Local Livelihood Implications of Biofuel Development and Land Acquisitions in Zimbabwe
Getting Treatment and Care to the Last Mile
Promoting the International Use of Emerging Country Currencies
A Markov Switching Approach to Herding
The Arctic and Geopolitics
Canada’s Northern Strategy and East Asian Interests in the Arctic
East Asia and the Arctic: Alaskan and American Perspectives
Arctic Prospects and Challenges From a Korean Perspective
Black Swans / White House: Why JFK Matters a Half Century After Dallas
Challenges of the International Monetary System and Response Options: A South African Perspective
China and the Arctic: China’s Interests and Participation in the Region
The Process of Formulating Japan’s Arctic Policy: From Involvement to Engagement
Bounding Cyber Power: Escalation and Restraint in Global Cyberspace
Adaptive Internet Governance: Persuading the Swing States
Internet Governance: Inevitable Transitions
Anonymous in Context: The Politics and Power Behind the Mask
Internet Points of Control as Global Governance
Sources of Tension in the Asia-Pacific
Reluctant Monetary Leaders? The New Politics of International Currencies
Currency Internationalization and Reforms in the Architecture of the International Monetary System: Managing the Impossible Trinity
Reimaging the Internet
The Russian Federation: International Monetary Reform and Currency Internationalization
A Practical Approach to International Monetary System Reform: Building Settlement Infrastructure for Regional Currencies
Brazil: Policy Responses to the Global Crisis and the Challenges Ahead
Global Turmoil: The International Money System Today
Short-selling Bans and Institutional Investors’ Herding Behaviour
The Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015: Squaring the Circle
Between North and South: The EU-ACP Migration Relationship
Are Short Sellers Positive Feedback Traders? Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis
The Short View: The Global Conjuncture and the Need for Cooperation
Strengthening International Financial Institutions to Promote Effective International Cooperation
Another Fine Mess: Repairing the Governance of International Financial Regulation
Leadership in a Turbulent Age
Sustainable Development and Financing Critical Global Public Goods
A Policy Mismatch: Canada and the United States in the Asia-Pacific Region
Zero: The Surprising and Unambiguous Policy Relevance of the Cuban Missile Crisis
From Bretton Woods to the Euro
Sovereign Debtors in Distress
How Global Watchdogs Missed a World of Trouble
A Flop and a Debacle: Inside the IMF's Global Rebalancing Acts
Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade
UN Peacekeeping: 20 Years of Reform
Fiscal Asymmetries and the Survival of the Euro Zone
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