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Synopsis
The Strategic Studies Working Group
(SSWG) is a partnership between the
Canadian Defence & Foreign
Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
and the
Canadian International Council
(CIC), which incorporates the former
Canadian Institute of Strategic
Studies.
CDFAI administers the SSWG, which
conducts research and produces
publications on security and defence
issues on behalf of the partnership.
Detailed Overview
The Strategic Studies Working Group
(SSWG) is a unique group that is both a
working group of the Canadian
International Council, headquartered in
Toronto with nationwide branches, and a
partnership between the Canadian Defence
& Foreign Affairs Institute (based in
Calgary) and the CIC. The SSWG was born
of the merger in 2007 of the venerable
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
(CISS) and the Canadian International
Council that was founded by Jim
Balsillie to inject new life and
resources into the Canadian Institute of
International Affairs (CIIA) and create
a national voice for the study of
Canadian international issues.
CIC was intended to take over the
national membership and branch structure
of CIIA and add to it a new and more
vigorous administrative structure
intended to broaden scholarship and
public education in the Canadian foreign
policy field. The Strategic Studies
Working Group was created as a condition
of the merger of the Canadian Institute
of Strategic Studies and CIC to ensure
that the then new CIC would not lose
sight of defence and security issues.
Shortly after CIC was founded, an
arrangement was concluded between it and
CDFAI to make the Strategic Studies
Working Group a partnership between the
two organizations. In effect, CDFAI
undertook to administer the Strategic
Studies Working Group and to undertake
research and publication on security and
defence issues on behalf of the Canadian
International Council. All projects
undertaken by the Strategic Studies
Working Group are first approved by CIC
and are co-published or co e-published
according to CIC standards.
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