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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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FEATURED PAPERS

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

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PAPERS (BY YEAR)


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2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

2012
Top of page... A Canadian Primer to the 2012 US Primaries and Caucuses Colin Robertson A Raucous Political Year for America Derek Burney A Separate Defence Procurement Agency: Will it Actually Make a Difference? Dr. Craig Stone Emerging Canadian Priorities and Capabilities for Arctic Search and Rescue Interview Ron Wallace
2011
Top of page... 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 Canada's International Role (Video) David Bercuson, Jack Granatstein and Denis Stairs Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper (Abridged) David Pratt Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy? Jack Granatstein Can R2P Survive Libya and Syria? Martha Hall Findlay Foreign Policy in the Election Derek Burney Getting Past the Bilateral-Trilateral Debate: A Pragmatic Functionalist Approach to North America Brian Bow 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 Marshall Plan Needed for Middle East Michael Bell ‘Now for the Hard Part’: A User’s Guide to Renewing the Canadian-American Partnership Colin Robertson Operations Security and the Public’s Need to Know Sharon Hobson 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 Reinventing CIDA – One Year Later by Barry Carin Russia and the 2010 NATO Strategic Concept: New Era of Partnership or Wishful Thinking? Mikayel Bagratuni 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 The Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard: Cooperating Sea Services or Co-existing Federal Fleets JY Forcier The New Terrorism: Understanding Yemen by David Carment The Panda Bear Readies to Meet the Polar Bear: China and Canada's Arctic Sovereignty Challenge David Wright 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
2010
Top of page... 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 Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the Millennium Development Goals David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy Canada-US Relations at 150 Derek Burney Canada-US Relations: No Time for Complacency Derek Burney Canada’s International Policy Statement Five Years Later Andrew Godefroy China’s Strategic Behaviour Elinor Sloan From the Operational to the Strategic: A Post-2011 Opportunity Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell 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 Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends by Dr. Hal Klepak and Stephen J. Randall Mr. Harper Goes to Washington Colin Robertson NATO Summit: Making Peace with Russia, Canada Notwithstanding Christopher Westdal Redefining Security in the Post-Afghanistan Era: The Future of Canadian Military Policy in an Uncertain World by Ron Wallace 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 2010 Midterms: A Primer for Canadians Colin Robertson The “Dirty Oil” Card and Canadian Foreign Policy Dr. Paul Chastko 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 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
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 Beneath the Radar: Change and Transformation in the Canada-U.S. North American Defence Relationship James Fergusson Breaking Global Deadlocks: A Canadian Track 1.5 Success Peter Heap Canada-U.S. Relations in the Arctic: A Neighbourly Proposal Brian Flemming 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) 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 Worthwhile Canadian Initiatives: On Banking and ‘Getting Government Right’ Colin Robertson

2008
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Canada and the United States “What Does it Mean to be Good Neighbours?” David Haglund, PhD Canada First Defence Strategy Elinor Sloan Canada, the USA, and the Financial Crisis: Risks and Opportunities Colin Robertson Contemporary Piracy off the Horn of Africa Patrick Lennox, Ph.D. 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 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
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 Military Transformation: Key Aspects and Canadian Approaches Elinor Sloan Nigeria: Mapping Political, Economic and Business Scenarios in the Post-Obasanjo Era Stephen Nairne Presentation to the Standing Committee on National Defence LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald Report on Canada, National Security and Outer Space James Fergusson and Stephen James The Hollowing out of Corporate Canada? Derek Burney 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 A Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service: A new necessity or an expensive frill? Reid Morden Blunt Instruments Reid Morden 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 Great Expectations LGen (Ret’d) George Macdonald Leadership in a New Government Environment Derek Burney Our Leopard tanks make the leap to Afghanistan Bob Bergen 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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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) 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 Two Solitudes: Quebecers' Attitudes Regarding Canadian Security and Defence Policy Jean-Sébastien Rioux Video: "In The National Interest Forum Please note that in order to view this file, you must have Apple's QuickTime viewer installed on your system. If you do not have it, you may download it here.
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 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 Video: "In The National Interest Forum" Please note that in order to view this file, you must have Apple's QuickTime Viewer installed on your system. If you do not have it, you may download it here. 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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February 2012

We Don't Need the
UN's Permission
by Jack Granatstein

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