Network for Strategic Analysis

Our watchwords are: responsiveness and creativity. Incubator of Canadian and global expertise on geostrategic events, we offer in-depth, real-time analyses of a turbulent world while developing the next generation of experts. Our work focuses primarily on the competition between great powers, multilateral defence cooperation, and the future of capacity building.

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The Geopolitical Impacts of COVID-19

Stéfanie von Hlatky, Justin Massie, Marco Munier, Hannah Hollander & Sam Skinner

Publications

Hot Takes

Nonviolence as a Strategy of Resistance in Myanmar

Jacob Fortier
April 28, 2021

Over the past few weeks, the continued and intensified protests in Myanmar despite the intensification of state repression is representative of a…

Policy Reports

Standing on Guard: Canada’s Strategic Interests in a Competitive World Order

Gaëlle Rivard Piché
April 26, 2021

Gaëlle Rivard Piché, "Standing on Guard: Canada’s Strategic Interests in a Competitive World Order," Vimy Paper, Volume 47, CDA Institute, March 2021.

Policy Briefs

NATO Enlargement 20 Years On: Some Thoughts

Michel Fortmann, Stéfanie von Hlatky
April 26, 2021

Almost three decades after NATO began to open its doors to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, it is time to revisit…

Policy Reports

Great Power Competition in the Arctic

Nancy Teeple
April 13, 2021

This policy report explores the extent to which the concept of Arctic Exceptionalism collides with the return to great power politics, particularly…

Policy Reports

Revisiting Canada-Russia Relations: A New Paradigm for a Multipolar World

Zachary Paikin
April 9, 2021

This paper was co-published with the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy. Consult the English version: Zachary Paikin, "Revisiting Canada-Russia Relations: A New…

Reports

Report on CJOC Defence Planning Project

Laurent Borzillo, Maxandre Fortier, Hannah Hollander, Justin Massie, Marco Munier, Camille Raymond, Philippe Dumas, Bibi Imre-Millei and Heni Pupco
March 29, 2021

The Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA) has been tasked by the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC) to conduct a comparative study on…

Video

Videos

Ten Years On: Assessing the U.S. Strategic Pivot (Rebalancing) to Asia – 2nd Part

Yann Breault, Pierre Pahlavi, Zachary Paikin
March 4, 2021

Panel 2 - Reactions of Rival Powers to American Rebalancing Moderator: Yann Breault (Royal Military College of St-Jean) Panelists: - Bonnie S.…

Videos

Ten Years On: Assessing the U.S. Strategic Pivot (Rebalancing) to Asia – 1st Part

Stéphanie Martel
March 4, 2021

Panel 1 - The Strategic Pivot and the Response of Washington’s Allies Moderator: Stéphanie Martel (Queen’s University) Panelists: - Rachel Esplin Odell…

Videos

PANEL 3 – December 11, 2020: Multilateralism in Free Fall?

Costanza Musu, Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Stéphanie Martel, Marie-Joëlle Zahar
March 3, 2021

Panel organized as part of the Network for Strategic Analysis’ annual colloquium “The Fractured International Order: Implications for the Defence of Canada“,…