On September 5–7, 2012, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C., The Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a German political foundation, hosted the second meeting of the Constructive Powers Initiative, held in Mexico City. The workshop,  Global Governance and the Challenge of Transnational Organized Crime: The Role of the Constructive Powers, addressed questions surrounding transnational organized crime (TOC), and policy responses to it.

The visit to Ottawa by Mexico’s President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto the week of November 26, provides Canada with the opportunity to elevate its bilateral relationship with Mexico to the level of a strategic partnership. Bilateral trade and investment have increased steadily since Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, but there remains enormous, untapped potential, particularly in Mexico. read more

Pull Quote:  The IMF has always had quantitative ceilings on access to its resources, but its history of ignoring them in crises is impressive. The crisis in Europe continues to fester. The weak global economy, distressed banking sectors and the absence of exchange rate policy have impeded resolution. But all of these problems were understood at the outset.

Collected Series:  CIGI Papers Series It has been 50 years since the world teetered on the edge of irreparable destruction, when the Cuban missile crisis nearly culminated in Armageddon on the last weekend of October 1962. A quarter century of research on the crisis has given this paper’s authors, James G.