Policy Reports
On February 24, 2022, when most experts believed that a significant but limited Russian attack on Eastern Ukraine was likely – at least in terms of war aims – the…
Policy Reports
Abstract Mackinder’s work on the Heartland (1904) seems to have generated a lot of interest since the advent in 2013 of the Chinese New Silk Road project, or Belt and…
Policy Briefs
The British government finally published its Integrated Review last March, a year later than expected. Heralded as the most important review of the UK's place in the world since the…
Hot Takes
In many respects, Donald Trump’s 100-minute rally held in Conway, South Carolina, on February 10, 2024, was just like his previous rallies. It began with Trump giving shout-outs to local…
Policy Reports
This policy report argues that the current war in Ukraine is unlikely to break the Chinese-Russian unlimited partnership and will accelerate the world's bipolarization. China has political, energetic, and strategic…
Hot Takes
In May 2023, press reports stated that an artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled drone had killed its own instructor during a test conducted by the US military. Although it was a virtual…
Hot Takes
In the wake of the 2021 sexual harassment and assault crisis involving allegations against high-ranking officers, including two Chiefs of the Defence Staff, the Canadian Armed Forces  (CAF) have promised…
Reports
Context Rooted in the Black American feminist movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the concept of intersectionality refers to the intersection of the various social, physiological and psychological identities of…
Policy Briefs
Context The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is a cooperative group, comprised of India, Japan, Australia and the United States, that was first established in May 2007. This structure was inherited…
In this 31st episode of Conseils de sĂ©curitĂ©, Sarah-Myriam and Thomas talk with Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Yannick talks about the evolution of the…