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In the 2016 election campaign, candidate Trump pledged to negotiate “a totally different deal” with Iran - to establish a deal that is all encompassing and goes beyond the nuclear…
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Andrea Charron, "Responding to the Hardening the SHIELD: A Credible Deterrent and Capable Defense for North America," Quick Impact, NAADSN, 11 September 2020.
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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…
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The failure of the Trudeau government to get Canada elected to the United Nations Security Council was an unprecedented affront in Canadian history. It was humiliating both for Canada –…
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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 States (US) continues on the path of unilateralism,…
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Bordering the United States and Russia, between NATO and EU member and non-member countries, the Arctic sub-regions are increasingly the subject of often alarmist, sometimes aggressive rhetoric, focusing on the…
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5G technology and the Chinese company Huawei 5G is the fifth generation of mobile communications, following on from 4G. 5G will bring a new technological terrain that will allow interconnection…
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In their article published in the Canadian Public Administration journal, the authors evaluated the nature and causes of the divergences between academic and defense policy communities in Canada based on…
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In June 2020, amid the most severe global health crisis in a generation, the MINDS Program’s Collaborative Networks answered a call for papers to help the Department of National Defence…
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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…