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Publications Archive - By Year

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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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PAPERS (BY YEAR)

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2002  2003 2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 2009 2010
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2010

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

 

Afghanistan: Out of Sight…?

Derek Burney


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

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

James Fergusson
 

Canada-US Relations at 150

Derek Burney

 

Canada-US Relations: No Time for Complacency
Derek Burney


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

China’s Strategic Behaviour
by Elinor Sloan


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

Hrach Gregorian


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

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


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
 

The Harper Government and Defence After Four Years
Jack Granatstein

 

The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment
Rob Huebert
 

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

Colin Robertson


Towards a Coherent Reserve Strategy for the Canadian Forces
Hugh Segal

 

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


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

 

2009

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A Summary of Operation Nunalivut 2009
Brian Flemming

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

Breaking Global Deadlocks: A Canadian Track 1.5 Success
Peter Heap
 

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


Canadian Interests Are No Longer Served by the G8
Gordon Smith and Barry Carin

China Ascending
Derek Burney

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?
Eric Lerhe (Cmdre ret'd)
 

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


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

Democracies and Small Wars
Barry Cooper

Don’t Overburden or Undervalue NATO
Alexander Moens

Engaging the Obama Administration
Derek Burney

Getting it Done in Foreign Policy
Derek Burney

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

 

Pirates Have Rights, Bring in the Police
Patrick Lennox

Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta
Tom Flanagan

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

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

 

The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
Anil Hira

Why Canada Needs a Robust Arctic Air Rescue Capability
Ron Wallace

 

2008

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Canada First Defence Strategy
Elinor Sloan

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

The End of the Hillier Era
Jack Granatstein

Georgia: Risk and Opportunity
Neil MacFarlane, Ph.D.

International Issues for the Campaign
Gordon Smith

Linkage: Foreign Policy, National Interests and Prosperity

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

Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Dr. Hal Klepak

Military Transformation: Key Aspects and Canadian Approaches
Elinor Sloan

No Canadian guns, no Afghan reconstruction
David Bercuson

President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War: A Counterfactual Critique of Conventional "W"isdom
Frank Harvey

Redeployment as a Rite of Passage
Anne Irwin

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 Audacity of Common Sense
Derek Burney

Who Will Succeed Hillier?
Gen (Ret'd) Paul Manson
 

2007

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

Canada as the “Emerging Energy Superpower”: Testing the Case
Annette Hester

Canada in Afghanistan: Is it Working?
Gordon Smith

Canada is Back: The Speech from the Throne
Jack Granatstein

CFIS: A Foreign Intelligence Service for Canada
Barry Cooper

Conflict in Lebanon:  On the Perpetual Threshold
Tami Amanda Jacoby

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

Nigeria:  Mapping Political, Economic and Business Scenarios in the Post-Obasanjo Era
Stephen Nairne

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

The Information Gap: Why the Canadian Public Doesn't Know More About Its Military
Sharon Hobson

Turkey: Current and Future Political, Economic, and Security Trends
Aliye Pekin Çelik, Ph.D. and Leylac Naqvi, MALD

 
2006

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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

Colombia: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Steve Randall

Dispatches from the War on Terror
Brian Flemming

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

Guess what? We give more than .7% already
David Carment

Great Expectations
LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald

Leadership in a New Government Environment
Derek Burney

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

The Homeland Security Dilemma: The Imagination of Failure and the Escalating Costs of Perfecting Security
Frank Harvey

 

2005

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

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

Confusing The Innocent With Numbers And Categories: The International Policy Statement And The Concentration of Development Assistance
Denis Stairs

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

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

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

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

Two Solitudes: Quebecers' Attitudes Regarding Canadian Security and Defence Policy
Jean-Sébastien Rioux  

Video: "In The National Interest Forum
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2004

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

 

2003

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

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

Blunt Instruments
Reid Morden

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

Canada and United States: Managing the Relations
Stéphane Roussel

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

Domestic Demographics and Canadian Foreign Policy
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
 

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
 

Managing Canada's Foreign Affairs
Gordon Smith


Multilateralism and Canadian Foreign Policy: A Reassessment
Tom Keating

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

Northern Interests and Canadian Foreign Policy
Rob Huebert

October 2004 Security and Defence Forum Newsletter
National Defence Canada

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


The World We Want -The Purposeful Confusion of Values, Goals, and Interests in Canadian Foreign Policy
Kim Richard Nossal

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

 

2002

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

 
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June 2010
Looking south: Canada-Mexico Relations

  by Jack Granatstein

Now Available:
Summer 2010 Edition of
"The Dispatch"

 

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