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On Shakespeare and Batman M J CanLit’s invisible hand • The upside of dying ARGAEETRET H EER A & TWOOD $6.50 Vol. 24, No. 7 September 2016 RICHARD POPLAK Colony of requited dreams China in Africa and the emergence of a new outsourcing hub ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Emma Hooper Why we sing John Cruickshank Lying liars Patrick Brown Another Trudeau in China Robin Sears Canada’s busiest campaigner Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. PO Box 8, Station K Toronto, ON M4P 2G1 New from University of Toronto Press Back from the Brink Lessons from the Canadian Asset- Backed Commercial Paper Crisis by Paul Halpern, Caroline The Letter and the Cosmos Cakebread, Christopher C. 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September 2016 reviewcanada.ca 1 CIGI PRESS ADVANCING POLICY IDEAS AND DEBATE cigionline.org COMING OCTOBER 2016 Look Who’s Watching Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online Fen Osler Hampson and Eric Jardine Edward Snowden’s revelations that the US National Security Agency and other government agencies are spying on Internet users and on other governments confirmed that the Internet is increasingly being used to gather intelligence and personal information. The proliferation of cybercrime, the sale of users’ data without their knowledge and the surveillance of citizens through connected devices are all rapidly eroding the confidence users have in the Internet. To meet the Internet’s full potential, its users need to trust that the Internet works reliably while also being secure, private and safe. When trust in the Internet wanes, users begin to alter their online behaviour. A combination of illustrative anecdotal evidence and analysis of new survey data, Look Who’s Watching clearly demonstrates why trust matters, how it is being eroded and how, with care and deliberate policy action, the essential glue of the Internet — trust — can be restored. October 2016 978-1-928096-19-1 | hardcover 978-1-928096-20-7 | ebook The authors have produced a clear, timely and essential book about the importance of trust as an engine for the Internet. We must foster that trust if the global Internet is to continue to flourish. — Michael Chertoff, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Chertoff Group, and former secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Minding the Gap The Dragon’s Edited by Pamela Aall and Footprints Chester A. Crocker Alex He Minding the Gap: African Conflict The Dragon’s Footprints: Management in a Time of China in the Global Economic Change focuses on the role of Governance System under the mediation and peacekeeping in G20 Framework examines China’s managing violence and political participation in the G20; its efforts crises, looking at new ideas to increase its prestige in the and institutions emerging in international monetary system the African space, as well as at through the internationalization of the structural and institutional its currency, the renminbi; its role obstacles to developing a truly in the multilateral development robust conflict management banks; and its involvement in capability in Africa.