Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I can put out a think piece. It goes like this. Development policy and foreign policy in general, depending on what sort of focus you have, is a political decision. The number of countries that need assistance, broadly speaking, is humongous. Just look at the failed sta

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the problem is not going to go away any time soon. It's not going to go away, and it's certainly spreading in the Middle East. We've heard some news over the past weeks or so that Libya is now being affected by certain terrorist organizations setting up shop in that count

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, and honourable members of the committee, thank you very much for the invitation to appear in front of you today. I appear in front of you today as a researcher, somebody who works on the security-development nexus, and particularly on fragile states; on questions o

Foreign Affairs committee  My name is Benjamin Zyla, and I'm a professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. I'm also co-directing the failed states research network with the Centre of International Policy Studies.