Collected Series:  Governing the Internet: Chaos, Control or Consensus? Pull Quote:  The power to write the

Collected Series:  CIGI Junior Fellows Policy Brief Series Social media played a central and celebrated role in the uprisings that took place in the Arab world in 2011, facilitating the organization and coordination of popular resistance to dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Collected Series:  CIGI Junior Fellows Policy Brief Series On June 27, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II shook the hand of Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander, symbolically solidifying the long peace process that had sought to resolve the Troubles of Northern Ireland.

There was a time when young officers of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) were taught during training that “their goal, at CIDA, was to work themselves out of a job — by helping a country to develop to the point where it no longer needs aid.”  For a time, this seemed more rhetoric than reality. But something changed along the way.  Over the past three decades, the world has witnessed the rise of a succession of developing economies, first in Northeast and Southeast Asia, then in South and Central America and, most recently, in Africa.