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…
- Marianne Bouchard
- November 27, 2020
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Summary In the twenty years following the adoption of the first United Nations Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS),…
Summary On November 9, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an end-of-hostilities agreement, under the aegis of Russia. This ceasefire, which enshrines a military…
- Camille Raymond
- November 24, 2020
Context As the world shifts from unipolarity to great power competition, the new technological and military capabilities of China and Russia are…
- Noémie Prévost
- November 23, 2020
Context Climate change, due to an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in Earth’s atmosphere, is affecting all aspects of…
This blog post is written as part of the Virtual Workshop Cycle on Building Capacity in the Age of COVID-19. The third…
- Maël Permal
- November 23, 2020
The Context The development of 5G technology poses a new challenge within the informal alliance of the "Five Eyes". This new technology…
Context The U.S. presidential election demonstrated the tenacity of President Donald J. Trump's ideas, policies and leadership style. The conservative nationalism and…
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…
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…
Summary Military training abroad is one of the main foreign policy tools deployed by a growing number of countries, including Canada. In…
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…
