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The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute sponsors publications that are written with the intent of promoting public dialogue on issues affecting Canada's  policies in the areas of foreign affairs, defence and security.
 

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

 

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A Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service: A new necessity or an expensive frill?
Reid Morden

A Canadian Primer to the 2012 US Primaries and Caucuses
Colin Robertson

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

A Raucous Political Year for America

Derek Burney 

Afghanistan: Out of Sight…?

Derek Burney

 

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

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

A Military In Support of Canadian Foreign Policy: Recommendations
Dan Middlemiss
 
A Military In Support of Canadian Foreign Policy: Some Fundamental Considerations  
Dan Middlemiss
 
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

A Separate Defence Procurement Agency: Will it Actually Make a Difference?
Dr. Craig Stone
 
A Summary of Operation Nunalivut 2009
Brian Flemming

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

 
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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

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

James Fergusson

 

Blunt Instruments
Reid Morden

Breaking Global Deadlocks: A Canadian Track 1.5 Success
Peter Heap

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

 

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Canada-U.S. Relations in the Arctic: A Neighbourly Proposal
Brian Flemming
 
Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence: Defying Logic and Politics
Jim Fergusson

Canada and the United States “What Does it Mean to be Good Neighbours?”
David Haglund, PhD
 
Canada in Afghanistan: Is it Working?
Gordon Smith

Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence: Defying Logic and Politics
Jim Fergusson
 
Canada and United States: Managing the Relations
Stéphane Roussel
 
Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case
Annette Hester
 
Canada-US Relations: Are We Getting it Right?
Derek Burney

Canada First Defence Strategy
Elinor Sloan

Canada is Back: The Speech from the Throne
Jack Granatstein

Canada’s International Policy Statement Five Years Later
Andrew Godefroy

 

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

 

Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy?

Jack Granatstein 

 

Can R2P Survive Libya and Syria?

Martha Hall Findlay

 

Canadian Foreign Policy Post-9/11: Institutional and Other Challenges
David Malone
 
Canadian Foreign Policy, Terrorism, and Non-Traditional Security Threats: Temporary Aberration or Permanent Condition?
David Charters
 
Canadian Peacekeeping Is Not What It Used To Be
John English

Canada-US Relations at 150

Derek Burney
 

Canada-US Relations: No Time for Complacency
Derek Burney

 

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

Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper

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

David Pratt

 

CFIS: A Foreign Intelligence Service for Canada
Barry Cooper

China Ascending
Derek Burney

China’s Strategic Behaviour
by Elinor Sloan
 
Colombia: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Steve Randall

Conference Publication: Canadian Defence and the Canada-US Strategic Partnership
CDFAI 

Conflict in Lebanon:  On the Perpetual Threshold
Tami Amanda Jacoby
 
Confusing The Innocent With Numbers And Categories: The International Policy Statement And The Concentration of Development Assistance
Denis Stairs

Comprehensive Action Plan for Afghanistan
Sarah Chayes

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

Contemporary Piracy off the Horn of Africa
Patrick Lennox, Ph.D.

 
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Dancing on Snake Heads in Yemen
Iris Glosemeyer, Ph.D.

Dispatches from the War on Terror
Brian Flemming
 
Domestic Demographics and Canadian Foreign Policy
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon

Don’t Overburden or Undervalue NATO
Alexander Moens

 
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Effective Aid and Beyond:  How Canada Can Help Poor Countries
Danielle Goldfarb
 
Effective Defence Policy for Responding to Failed and Failing States
David Carment

Emerging Canadian Priorities and Capabilities for Arctic Search and Rescue

Interview

Ron Wallace

Engaging the Obama Administration
Derek Burney

 

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Foreign Policy in the Election
Derek Burney

 

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

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell

 

 

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

Hrach Gregorian

Georgia: Risk and Opportunity
Neil MacFarlane, Ph.D.
 
Getting it Done in Foreign Policy
Derek Burney

 

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

 

Great Expectations
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 
 
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Implementing a Canadian Defence Strategy
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 

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

 

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
 
Is Canada Now Irrelevant?
Norman Hillmer, David Carment, and Fen Osler

International Issues for the Campaign
Gordon Smith

 
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Leadership in a New Government Environment
Derek Burney

 

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

CTV Interview with David Bercuson


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

 

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Managing Canada's Foreign Affairs
Gordon Smith

 

Marshall Plan Needed for Middle East

Michael Bell

Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough?
Sarah Meharg
 

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
 
Military Transformation: Key Aspects and Canadian Approaches
Elinor Sloan

Mr. Harper Goes to Washington

Colin Robertson
 

Multilateralism and Canadian Foreign Policy: A Reassessment
Tom Keating

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

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
 
Nigeria:  Mapping Political, Economic and Business Scenarios in the Post-Obasanjo Era
Stephen Nairne
 
Northern Interests and Canadian Foreign Policy
Rob Huebert

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

Colin Robertson


 
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October 2004 Security and Defence Forum Newsletter
National Defence Canada

Operations Security and the Public’s Need to Know
Sharon Hobson
 
Our Leopard tanks make the leap to Afghanistan
Bob Bergen
 
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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Pirates Have Rights, Bring in the Police
Patrick Lennox

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

Presentation to the Standing Committee on National Defence
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald
 
President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War: A Counterfactual Critique of Conventional "W"isdom
Frank Harvey

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

Redeployment as a Rite of Passage
Anne Irwin

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

Reinventing CIDA – One Year Later
by Barry Carin

 

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

Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta
Tom Flanagan

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

Mikayel Bagratuni


 

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Securing the Continent: Where is NORAD Today?
Alan Stephenson

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

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

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

Strategic Capability Investment Plan: Origins, Evolution and Future Prospects
Elinor Sloan

 
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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

The 2010 Midterms: A Primer for Canadians
Colin Robertson
 
The Audacity of Common Sense
Derek Burney

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

The Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard: Cooperating Sea Services or Co-existing Federal Fleets
JY Forcier

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

The Harper Government and Defence After Four Years
Jack Granatstein
 
The Hollowing out of Corporate Canada?
Derek Burney
 
The Homeland Security Dilemma: The Imagination of Failure and the Escalating Costs of Perfecting Security
Frank Harvey
 
The Information Gap: Why the Canadian Public Doesn't Know More About Its Military
Sharon Hobson
 

The New Terrorism: Understanding Yemen
by David Carment

The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment
Rob Huebert

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

David Wright

 

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

Colin Robertson

 

The Role of the Militia in Today’s Canadian Forces

Jack English  

 

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

David Carment

 

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


The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
Anil Hira
 
The Trilateral Mirage: A Tale of Two North-Americas
Jean Daudelin

Towards a Coherent Reserve Strategy for the Canadian Forces
Hugh Segal
 
Turkey: Current and Future Political, Economic, and Security Trends
Aliye Pekin Çelik, Ph.D. and Leylac Naqvi, MALD
 
The World We Want -The Purposeful Confusion of Values, Goals, and Interests in Canadian Foreign Policy
Kim Richard Nossal
 
Two Solitudes: Quebecers' Attitudes Regarding Canadian Security and Defence Policy
Jean-Sébastien Rioux  

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

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

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Welcome to a new era of Arctic Security
Rob Huebert

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

Why Canada Needs a Robust Arctic Air Rescue Capability
Ron Wallace

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


 
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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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