Publications

After being ruled by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its junior coalition partners since 2005, Germany is set for Vice-Chancellor…

Pierre Morcos, "After the AUKUS Crisis, Are France-U.S. Relations Back on Track?," Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 16, 2021.

When acts of violence against civilians are widely publicized, Canada is frequently rushed to join its allies in public denunciation campaigns aimed…

The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are among the world’s most sensible and complex geopolitical questions. Three reasons render such disputes particularly…

While the 20th anniversary of September 11 terrorist attack is a reminder of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and the beginning of…

Highlights The U.S. pivot to Asia strategy, launched by the Obama administration in 2011, comes in response to the significant structural change…

International organisations (IOs) are created with the aim of solving collective action problems when a crisis arises. Yet, member states have repeatedly…

Without turning away from counterterrorism, U.S. defense seems to be increasingly orienting its focus on China in an era of great power…

In its hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, contrary to the Biden administration’s initial messages that claimed to make the Trump era an incident…

On August 14, the Canadian Department of National Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a joint statement on the…

This policy report argues that, in order to deliver on its promise, the Government of Canada should carry out its Feminist Foreign…

A new joint defence partnership will see the United States, Britain and Australia join together into what is already called AUKUS (Australia-UK-US).…

“Canada’s foreign policy is more important now than it has been in a generation,” states the Conservative Party of Canada’s election platform.…

With Kabul fallen, Canada, the United States and their allies are now attempting to salvage what dignity they can from an utter…

Pierre Morcos, "NATO’s Pivot to China: A Challenging Path," Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 8, 2021.

Most humanitarian programmes commission aid consultants at various stages of their operationalization to evaluate the efficiency of relevant programme design and implementation.…

In April 2021, according to the statements of Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union, at least 150,000 Russian soldiers…

With the Iranian presidential elections on June 18, 2021 looming, the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to be more frozen than ever.…

This policy report follows the conference organized by the Network for Strategic Analysis entitled “Intelligence Cooperation in a Multipolar World: Non-American Perspectives”…

The British government finally published its Integrated Review last March, a year later than expected. Heralded as the most important review of…

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

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

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

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

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

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

During autumn 2020, the Network for Strategic Analysis hosted a series of online workshops on the links between COVID-19 and capacity-building activities.…

This text was originally a statement to the Standing Committee on National Defence on February 26 2021, in the context of the…

The ongoing diplomatic crisis between the United States and Turkey will have a significant impact on Canadian defence policy. While some strategic…

In September 2020, the Chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Adam Schiff, published a short critical article…

As the frenzy intensifies around the “Indo-Pacific,” Canada must play its cards right with a mix of prudence and creativity. To do…

The types of conflict states aim to deter have evolved since the Cold War, presenting new challenges each time. Deterrence theory became…

Kristen Csenkey and MCpl Dominique Philippe Genest, “An Opportunity for NORAD Modernization in a Joint CA-US Cyber Component,” Strategic Perspectives, NAADSN, January…

From academia to politics, issues of inclusion and diversity are gaining increasing importance in different spheres of Canadian society. In international security,…

The international community has thus far failed to create consensual and legally-binding rules for the use of outer space beyond those specified…

Key Points: Donald Trump's tenure has eroded the confidence of key democratic allies in the United States. So much so that the…

The mandate of Donald Trump confirmed a strong trend since the financial crisis of 2008: the American hegemon is in decline. Furthermore,…

Throughout the fall of 2020, Theodore McLauchlin and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Professors at the University of Montreal, organized a series of virtual workshops…

The Nagorno-Karabakh armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which began on September 27, lasted nearly two months and is said to have…

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

In a context of increasing competition between the great powers and a relative decline of the United States, this article aims to…

In the twenty years following the adoption of the first United Nations Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the…

On November 9, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an end-of-hostilities agreement, under the aegis of Russia. This ceasefire, which enshrines a military victory…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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:…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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