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The Democracy Hack ASSERTING ITSELF GLOBALLY: MORE OF THE SAME FROM RUSSIA IN 2019 WINTER 19 | JAN–MAR The democracy hack DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD ARE UNDER SIEGE AND CANADA IS NOT EXEMPT PLUS 11 PREDICTIONS FOR ASIA IN 2019 AND SOME HOPE FOR AFRICA THIS YEAR Scott Newark on immigration and security Christina Spencer on books about feminism and war Alex McMahon on California wine finds ESTABLISHED 1989 CDN $9.95 Patrick Langston on Brazil’s magnificent residence PM 40957514 AFTER INAUGURATION|DI SPATCHES DIPLOMAT AND INTERNATIONAL CANADA 1 DI SPATCHES|AFTER INAUGURATION LE BACCARA – We invite you to an exceptional Five-Diamond gourmet experience! 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Duke Gyamfi Work: 613-744-4444 [email protected] Diplomatic Accounts Manager Cell: 613-862-3853 The World in Canada Volume 30, Number 1 PUBLISHER Donna Jacobs PUBLISHER IN MEMORIAM Neil Reynolds Table of EDITOR Jennifer Campbell ART DIRECTOR Paul Cavanaugh CONTENTS BOOKS COLUMNIST DIPLOMATICA| Christina Spencer Cartoons from around the world . 16 FOOD COLUMNIST Questions Asked: Security expert Scott Newark . 22 Margaret Dickenson STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Good Deeds: South Africa's diplomats help The Ottawa Mission . 30 Ülle Baum Notes from the Field: PeaceGeeks encourage digital skills . 32 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Diplomatic Agenda: Taiwan's envoy on Canada-Taiwan ties . 34 Stephen Blank Wolfgang Depner Trade Winds: Trade with Afghanistan, the EU and Denmark . 36 Fen Hampson Robert D'A Henderson Abdul Jabar Rahimi Patrick Langston DISPATCHES| Tasneem Ma’abreh Digital assaults on democracy Alex McMahon Election meddling goes online . 40 Robert I . 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Box 1173, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P 5R2 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THE ARTICLES ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS. 8 WINTER 2019 | JAN-FEB-MAR AFTER INAUGURATION|DIPLOMATICA PUT THE WORLD WITHIN YOUR REACH! 25+ PROGRAMS SUMMER STUDY ABROAD, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND MARCH BREAK PROGRAMS 30+ FOR GRADES 9-12 COUNTRIES REGISTRATION FOR 2019 PROGRAMS IS NOW OPEN DIPLOMAT AND INTERNATIONALVISIT CANADA BLYTHSUMMERS.COM TODAY! 9 DIPLOMATICA|EDITOR’S NOTE might cause upsets for the better . He also offers some optimism about Ethiopia, Fen Hampson which he refers to as the continent’s “new prosperity powerhouse ”. Robert Hen- derson, meanwhile, writes about what to expect from China and the countries that surround it, and talks about what he antic- Jennifer ipates from Chinese President Xi Jinping . Campbell Finally, in our Dispatches section, writer Wolfgang Depner takes a look at Dangers to democracy the Top 10 most unequal-income states in the world, and discovers that Africa Fen Osler Hampson is distinguished f someone told you 20 years ago that — particularly Sub-Saharan Africa — is fellow and director of the Global Russia would meddle
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