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Lessons Learned? What Canada Should Learn from Afghanistan
by David Bercuson and J.L. Granatstein

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Unwilling to be Willing: The Primacy and Capability Principles in Canadian-American Relations
Thomas Axworthy

 
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Russia and the 2010 NATO Strategic Concept: New Era of Partnership or Wishful Thinking?

Mikayel Bagratuni

Marshall Plan Needed for Middle East

Michael Bell

 

Canada's International Role (Video)
David Bercuson, Jack Granatstein and Denis Stairs


An Opaque Window: An Overview of Some Commitments Made by the Government of Canada Regarding the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces; 1 January 2000 - 31 December 2004.  
David J. Bercuson, Aaron P. Plamondon, and Ray Szeto
 

National Defence, National Interest: Sovereignty, Security and Canadian Military Capability in the Post 9/11 World
David J. Bercuson, John Ferris, J.L. Granatstein, Rob Huebert, and Jim Keeley
 
Lessons Learned? What Canada Should Learn from Afghanistan
by David Bercuson and J.L. Granatstein
CTV Interview with David Bercuson

Our Leopard tanks make the leap to Afghanistan
Bob Bergen

Getting Past the Bilateral-Trilateral Debate: A Pragmatic Functionalist Approach to North America
Brian Bow

A Raucous Political Year for America

Derek Burney

 

Afghanistan: Out of Sight…?

Derek Burney

 

Canada-US Relations: Are We Getting it Right?
Derek Burney
 

Canada-US Relations at 150

Derek Burney

 

Canada-US Relations: No Time for Complacency
Derek Burney

China Ascending
Derek Burney

Engaging the Obama Administration
Derek Burney

 

Foreign Policy in the Election
Derek Burney


Getting it Done in Foreign Policy
Derek Burney
 

In The Canadian Interest? Assessing Canada's International Policy Statement (English version)

In The Canadian Interest? Assessing Canada's International Policy Statement (French version)

Derek H. Burney, Rob Huebert, James Fergusson, Eric Lerhe, Michel Fortmann, Frédéric Mérand, George Macdonald

J.L. Granatstein, Reid Morden, George Haynal, Kim Richard Nossal, Sharon Hobson, Jean-Sébastien Rioux, and

Gordon S. Smith

 

Leadership in a New Government Environment
Derek Burney

 

Libya: A Time for Others in the Region

Derek Burney


Libya: Why Are We Involved
Derek Burney

Linkage: Foreign Policy, National Interests and Prosperity

D.H. Burney, W.A. Dymond, and J.L. Granatstein
 

The Audacity of Common Sense
Derek Burney
 
The Hollowing out of Corporate Canada?
Derek Burney

 
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From the Operational to the Strategic: A Post-2011 Opportunity

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell

Reinventing CIDA
Listen:  Gordon Smith on CBC's Power and Politics
Barry Carin and Gordon
Smith

 

Reinventing CIDA – One Year Later
by Barry Carin


A Marshall Plan for Haiti? Think Again
David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the Millennium Development Goals
David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy

Effective Defence Policy for Responding to Failed and Failing States
David Carment
 

The New Terrorism: Understanding Yemen
by David Carment


The Social Underpinnings of the Current Unrest in North Africa and the Middle East

David Carment

 

Conference Publication: Canadian Defence and the Canada-US Strategic Partnership
CDFAI
 
Canadian Foreign Policy, Terrorism, and Non-Traditional Security Threats: Temporary Aberration or Permanent Condition?
David Charters

The “Dirty Oil” Card and Canadian Foreign Policy
Dr. Paul Chastko

Comprehensive Action Plan for Afghanistan
Sarah Chayes
 
Turkey: Current and Future Political, Economic, and Security Trends
Aliye Pekin Çelik, Ph.D. and Leylac Naqvi, MALD

Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO’s New Strategic Concept
Conference of Defence Associations Institute and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
 
CFIS: A Foreign Intelligence Service for Canada
Barry Cooper

Whatever Happened to Peacekeeping? The Future of a Tradition (English version)
Whatever Happened to Peacekeeping? The Future of a Tradition (en Français)
Jocelyn Coulon and  Michel Liégeois, PhD

 
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Security and Prosperity in the Canada-United States Relationship Two Sides of the Same Coin
Thomas d'Aquino

The Trilateral Mirage: A Tale of Two North-Americas
Jean Daudelin

 
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Canadian Peacekeeping Is Not What It Used To Be
John English

The Role of the Militia in Today’s Canadian Forces

Jack English  

 
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Beneath the Radar: Change and Transformation in the Canada-U.S. North American Defence Relationship

James Fergusson

Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence: Defying Logic and Politics
Jim Fergusson
 

Report on Canada, National Security and Outer Space
James Fergusson and Stephen James

Can R2P Survive Libya and Syria?

Martha Hall Findlay  

 

Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta
Tom Flanagan

A Summary of Operation Nunalivut 2009
Brian Flemming

Canada-U.S. Relations in the Arctic: A Neighbourly Proposal
Brian Flemming
 

Dispatches from the War on Terror
Brian Flemming

The Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard: Cooperating Sea Services or Co-existing Federal Fleets
JY Forcier
 
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Dancing on Snake Heads in Yemen
Iris Glosemeyer, Ph.D.

Canada’s International Policy Statement Five Years Later
Andrew Godefroy

Effective Aid and Beyond:  How Canada Can Help Poor Countries
Danielle Goldfarb
 

Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy?

Jack Granatstein 

 

 Canada is Back: The Speech from the Throne
Jack Granatstein

The Harper Government and Defence After Four Years
Jack Granatstein

A Threatened Future: Canada's Future Strategic Environment and its Security Implications
Jack Granatstein, Gordon Smith, and Denis Stairs
 

The Special Commission on the Restructuring of the Reserves, 1995: Ten Years Later (English version)

The Special Commission on the Restructuring of the Reserves, 1995: Ten Years Later (French version)
J.L. Granatstein, OC and Lt.-General (Ret’d) Charles Belzile

 

G8 Security Sector Capacity Building in Fragile States: Examining Effectiveness and Coherence

Hrach Gregorian

 

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Canada and the United States “What Does it Mean to be Good Neighbours?”
David Haglund, PhD

President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War: A Counterfactual Critique of Conventional "W"isdom
Frank Harvey
 
The Homeland Security Dilemma: The Imagination of Failure and the Escalating Costs of Perfecting Security
Frank Harvey

Breaking Global Deadlocks: A Canadian Track 1.5 Success
Peter Heap
 
Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case
Annette Hester
 
Is Canada Now Irrelevant?
Norman Hillmer, David Carment, and Fen Osler

The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
Anil Hira
 
The Information Gap: Why the Canadian Public Doesn't Know More About Its Military
Sharon Hobson

Operations Security and the Public’s Need to Know
Sharon Hobson
 
Northern Interests and Canadian Foreign Policy
Rob Huebert

The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment
Rob Huebert

Welcome to a new era of Arctic Security
Rob Huebert
 
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Redeployment as a Rite of Passage
Anne Irwin
 
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Conflict in Lebanon:  On the Perpetual Threshold
Tami Amanda Jacoby

 
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Multilateralism and Canadian Foreign Policy: A Reassessment
Tom Keating
 
Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Dr. Hal Klepak

Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends (2010)
by Dr. Hal Klepak and Stephen J. Randall
 
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Contemporary Piracy off the Horn of Africa
Patrick Lennox.

Pirates Have Rights, Bring in the Police
Patrick Lennox

“Connecting the Dots” and the Canadian Counter-terrorism Effort – Steady Progress or Technical, Bureaucratic, Legal and Political Failure?
 Eric Lerhe (Cmdre ret'd)

 
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The Canada First Defence Strategy - One Year Later
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald

Great Expectations
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 
Implementing a Canadian Defence Strategy
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 
Presentation to the Standing Committee on National Defence
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 
Canadian Foreign Policy Post-9/11: Institutional and Other Challenges
David Malone
 
Georgia: Risk and Opportunity
Neil MacFarlane, Ph.D.

Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough?
Sarah Meharg
 
A Military In Support of Canadian Foreign Policy: Recommendations
Dan Middlemiss
 
A Military In Support of Canadian Foreign Policy: Some Fundamental Considerations
Dan Middlemiss

Don’t Overburden or Undervalue NATO
Alexander Moens
 
A Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service: A new necessity or an expensive frill?
Reid Morden
 
Blunt Instruments
Reid Morden

 
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Nigeria:  Mapping Political, Economic and Business Scenarios in the Post-Obasanjo Era
Stephen Nairne
 
October 2004 Security and Defence Forum Newsletter
National Defence Canada

 
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Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper

Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper (Abridged)

David Pratt
The 2007 Ross Ellis Memorial Lectures in Military and Strategic Studies: Is there a Grand Strategy in Canadian Foreign Policy?
The Honorable David Pratt, PC

 

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Colombia: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Steve Randall
 
Policing the Police: Formal and Informal Police Oversight Mechanisms in the Americas
Policing the Police: Formal and Informal Police Oversight Mechanisms in the Americas (French Excerpt)
Policing the Police: Formal and Informal Police Oversight Mechanisms in the Americas (Spanish Excerpt)
Stephen Randall and Juliana Ramirez
The World We Want -The Purposeful Confusion of Values, Goals, and Interests in Canadian Foreign Policy
Kim Richard Nossal
 
Domestic Demographics and Canadian Foreign Policy
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
 
Two Solitudes: Quebecers' Attitudes Regarding Canadian Security and Defence Policy
Jean-Sébastien Rioux  
 
A Canadian Primer to the 2012 US Primaries and Caucuses
Colin Robertson

A Primer to the G8/G20 Toronto and Huntsville Summits
Colin Robertson


After Obama’s First Hundred Days: The Pursuit of the Ottawa Agenda and the Need for a Permanent Campaign
Colin Robertson

Canada, the USA, and the Financial Crisis: Risks and Opportunities
Colin Robertson

Jaw-jaw is still better than war-war, just very expensive
Colin Robertson, National Post, June 23, 2010

Mr. Harper Goes to Washington

Colin Robertson

‘Now for the Hard Part’: A User’s Guide to Renewing the Canadian-American Partnership

Colin Robertson


Setting the Stage for the Obama Administration: The Players, the Program, and the Opportunities for Canada
Colin Robertson

The 2010 Midterms: A Primer for Canadians
Colin Robertson
 

The Past as Prologue: Sustaining Canadian Capacity for Defence, Diplomacy and Development

Colin Robertson

 

Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives: On Banking and ‘Getting Government Right’
Colin Robertson
 

Canada and United States: Managing the Relations
Stéphane Roussel

 
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Towards a Coherent Reserve Strategy for the Canadian Forces
Hugh Segal


Canada First Defence Strategy
Elinor Sloan

China’s Strategic Behaviour
by Elinor Sloan

Military Transformation: Key Aspects and Canadian Approaches
Elinor Sloan
 

Strategic Capability Investment Plan: Origins, Evolution and Future Prospects
Elinor Sloan
 
Canada in Afghanistan: Is it Working?
Gordon Smith

International Issues for the Campaign
Gordon Smith
 
Managing Canada's Foreign Affairs
Gordon Smith
 
Being Rejected in the United Nations: The Causes and Implications of Canada’s Failure to Win a Seat in the UN Security Council
Denis Stairs

Confusing The Innocent With Numbers And Categories: The International Policy Statement And The Concentration of Development Assistance
Denis Stairs
 
In The National Interest- Canadian Foreign Policy in an Insecure World
Denis Stairs, David J. Bercuson, Mark Entwistle, J.L. Granatstein, Kim Richard Nossal, and Gordon S. Smith

Securing the Continent: Where is NORAD Today?
Alan Stephenson

A Separate Defence Procurement Agency: Will it Actually Make a Difference?
Dr. Craig Stone

 
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Consequences of a Diminishing Presence of the Canadian Militia in Canadian Communities
David Turnbull (for CDFAI) 

 

 

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Emerging Canadian Priorities and Capabilities for Arctic Search and Rescue

Interview

Ron Wallace

 

Redefining Security in the Post-Afghanistan Era: The Future of Canadian Military Policy in an Uncertain World
by Ron Wallace

Why Canada Needs a Robust Arctic Air Rescue Capability
Ron Wallace

Unstoppable Momentum: The Real Meaning and Value Behind Operation Nunavilut 10
Ron Wallace and Whitney Lackenbauer

NATO Summit: Making Peace with Russia, Canada Notwithstanding
Christopher Westdal

The Panda Bear Readies to Meet the Polar Bear: China and Canada's Arctic Sovereignty Challenge

David Wright

 
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Video: "In The National Interest Forum"
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February 2012

We Don't Need the
UN's Permission

  by Jack Granatstein

Now Available:
Winter 2011 Edition of
"The Dispatch"

 

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