Publications

Analyses

Thinking About the Modernization of NORAD

• Camille Raymond
• November 24, 2020

As the world shifts from unipolarity to great power competition, the new technological and military capabilities of China and Russia are real…

Analyses

The Challenges for Canada of Global Warming in the Arctic

• Noémie Prévost
• November 23, 2020

Climate change, due to an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in Earth’s atmosphere, is affecting all aspects of life…

Analyses

Peacekeeping in the Age of COVID-19: An Opportunity to Move Forward?

• Arthur Stein
• November 23, 2020

This blog post is written as part of the Virtual Workshop Cycle on Building Capacity in the Age of COVID-19. The third…

Analyses

The Development of 5G and the Impact of Donald Trump’s Presidency on Intelligence Sharing Within the Five Eyes

• Maël Permal
• November 23, 2020

The development of 5G technology poses a new challenge within the informal alliance of the "Five Eyes". This new technology dramatically improves…

Strategic Reports

The Election of Joe Biden: Implications for Democratic Allies

• Stéfanie von Hlatky, Justin Massie
• November 18, 2020

The U.S. presidential election demonstrated the tenacity of President Donald J. Trump's ideas, policies and leadership style. The conservative nationalism and populism…

Analyses

Potential Washington Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities at Natanz

• Pierre Pahlavi
• November 18, 2020

Over the past few days, several testimonies have been describing a febrile and dangerous atmosphere in Iran and, in particular, in the…

Analyses

Can Washington Save Its Leadership in NATO?

• Sarah Pedneault, Anik Dupuis
• November 11, 2020

The abandonment of American leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) did not begin with Donald Trump. From the end of…

Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan

• Stéfanie von Hlatky, Justin Massie
• November 9, 2020

The purpose of the NSA strategic plan is to orient the Network’s objectives, which are mainly based on its activities of mobilizing…

Strategic Reports

Can Canada Be Influential in a World of Great Power Politics?

• Jonathan Paquin
• November 9, 2020

Highlights Canada does not have the means and power to influence, let alone shape, the nature of the international system. Although Canada…

Analyses

Navigating Great Power Rivalry: Canadian Strategy for a New Decade

• Zachary Paikin
• November 3, 2020

Despite periodic instances of tension and disagreement, Ottawa has leaned heavily on its relationship with Washington to anchor its foreign policy throughout…

Analyses

The Russian Occupation of Georgia and the Questioning of its Territorial Integrity

• Pierre Jolicoeur
• October 30, 2020

In the context of parliamentary elections in Georgia, slated for October 31, 2020, Russian pressure on this small Caucasian state continues, both…

Analyses

Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism: Rethinking Contested Models in the Age of COVID-19

• Arthur Stein
• October 29, 2020

This hot take is written as part of the Virtual Workshop Cycle on Building Capacity in the Age of COVID-19. The second…

Analyses

Canadians Want to Play a Larger Diplomatic Role in International Affairs: Building a New Path for Our Place in the World

• Jean-Christophe Boucher
• October 28, 2020

The last two decades have been difficult for Canadian foreign policy. Successive governments in Ottawa have been struggling to articulate a coherent…

Analyses

Elections 2020: November 3, a Period of Unexpected Uncertainty? an Election in Disarray

• Anessa Kimball
• October 28, 2020

New Vectors of Uncertainty With at least a half-dozen toss-up states and changes to the voting status quo-through larger mail-in & absentee…

Strategic Reports

Rethinking the Impact of US Military Training on Coups

• Ludwine Tchatat, Theodore McLauchlin, Lee Seymour
• October 28, 2020

Military training abroad is one of the main foreign policy tools deployed by a growing number of countries, including Canada. In recent…

Analyses

The Polysemy of the Security Community: Towards a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?

• Stéphanie Martel
• October 27, 2020

In her article published in the International Studies Quarterly, Stéphanie Martel maintains that the construction of a security community can be understood as…

Analyses

The Presidential Elections in the United States: What Impact on Iranian-American Relations?

• Pierre Pahlavi
• October 27, 2020

Even before Donald Trump took office four years ago, the media prophesied a major break in relations with Iran. For months, in…

Analyses

Capacity Building Before and After COVID-19

• Ludwine Tchatat
• October 20, 2020

On Friday, September 25, The Strategic Analysis Network (SAN) organized the first panel of a cycle of 5 workshops on capacity building…

Analyses

South China Sea: Faced with Chinese Affirmation, Which Common Front?

• Frédéric Lasserre
• October 9, 2020

In the summer of 2020, tension can be seen in the South China Sea between China, on the one hand, and several…

Analyses

Understanding the Five Eyes

• Srdjan Vucetic
• October 1, 2020

The term Five Eyes typically refers to a unique signals intelligence pooling club of three or four-letter acronymed agencies from Australia, Canada,…

Analyses

Why ‘Brave Little Belgium’ Yet Again Sends Its F-16s to Iraq and Syria

• Yf Reykers
• October 1, 2020

On October 1st 2020, Belgium resumed its participation in Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led international coalition against ISIL, with four F-16 fighter…

Analyses

Turkey’s Disputed Role in NATO

• Private: Jessy Benoit
• September 25, 2020

Since the fall of the USSR, the Turkish government has contested the usefulness of NATO. This challenge has increased following the recent decisions of the Turkish government:…

Analyses

New Deal with Iran: A Broken Promise?

• Pierre Pahlavi
• September 22, 2020

In the 2016 election campaign, candidate Trump pledged to negotiate “a totally different deal” with Iran - to establish a deal that…

Strategic Reports

Responding to the Hardening the SHIELD: A Credible Deterrent and Capable Defense for North America

• Andrea Charron
• September 18, 2020

Andrea Charron, "Responding to the Hardening the SHIELD: A Credible Deterrent and Capable Defense for North America," Quick Impact, NAADSN, 11 September…

Strategic Reports

Mackinder, Models and the New Silk Road: a Deceiving Tool?

• Frédéric Lasserre
• August 27, 2020

Abstract Mackinder’s work on the Heartland (1904) seems to have generated a lot of interest since the advent in 2013 of the…

Analyses

The End of Illusions: Towards an Independent Foreign Policy in a Disorderly World

• Justin Massie
• August 14, 2020

The failure of the Trudeau government to get Canada elected to the United Nations Security Council was an unprecedented affront in Canadian…

Analyses

Transatlantic Relations During a Pandemic: Cooperation or Competition?

• Marco Munier
• August 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the dynamics of contemporary transatlantic relations, which oscillate between cooperation and rivalry at a time of competition between great powers. As the United…

Strategic Reports

Competitions and Power Games in the Arctic – Realities, Fictions and Implications for Canada

• Mathieu Landriault, Magali Vullierme
• August 14, 2020

Bordering the United States and Russia, between NATO and EU member and non-member countries, the Arctic sub-regions are increasingly the subject of…

Analyses

Canada and Huawei’s 5G

• Marco Munier
• July 29, 2020

5G technology and the Chinese company Huawei 5G is the fifth generation of mobile communications, following on from 4G. 5G will bring…

Analyses

Bridging the Gap Between Academic and Defence Policy Communities in Canada

• Thomas Juneau, Philippe Lagassé
• July 29, 2020

In their article published in the Canadian Public Administration journal, the authors evaluated the nature and causes of the divergences between academic…

Strategic Reports

Network Challenge Report: COVID-19

• July 28, 2020

In June 2020, amid the most severe global health crisis in a generation, the MINDS Program’s Collaborative Networks answered a call for…

Strategic Reports

Intersectionality Strategy

• Private: Isabelle Caron
• July 14, 2020

Context Rooted in the Black American feminist movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the concept of intersectionality refers to the intersection of…

Strategic Reports

COVID-19 and the Future of Global Order

• Bruno Charbonneau, Chantal Lavallée
• July 7, 2020

This report was produced by the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC), founded at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 2020.…

Strategic Reports

COVID-19 and Canada’s Capacity-Building: Security Assistance and Training in the Pandemic

• Theodore McLauchlin
• June 19, 2020

How has capacity-building, above all security assistance and training operations, been affected by COVID-19? What is likely to come? Because Canada’s capacity-building…

Strategic Reports

The Geopolitical Impacts of COVID-19

• Stéfanie von Hlatky, Hannah Hollander, Justin Massie, Marco Munier & Sam Skinner
• June 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerable geopolitical impacts. It acts as a catalyst on several security and defence issues. This strategic note focusses…

Strategic Reports

Why Fear Russia in the Arctic? Contemplating Scenarios as an Exercise in Assumption-Testing and “Red Teaming”

• Whitney Lackenbauer
• May 4, 2020

Whitney Lackenbauer, "Why Fear Russia in the Arctic? Contemplating Scenarios as an Exercise in Assumption-Testing and 'Red Teaming'," Strategic Perspectives, NAADSN, 4…