
Compendium
What’s Next? Managing Traditional and New Threats through International Cooperation
Following its second annual colloquium, the Network for Strategic Analysis has produced the compendium "What's Next? Managing Traditional and New Threats through…

Policy Reports
The Sino-Russian Partnership and the Bipolarization of the World
- Rémy Carugati
- May 12, 2022
This policy report argues that the current war in Ukraine is unlikely to break the Chinese-Russian unlimited partnership and will accelerate the…

Policy Briefs
India’s Place in the Quad in Light of AUKUS
- Amélie Chalivet
- April 29, 2022
Context The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is a cooperative group, comprised of India, Japan, Australia and the United States, that was first…

Books
Ukraine: The Shock of War
- April 26, 2022
Get the book Ukraine: Le choc de la guerre, the first volume of the new Rubicon collection! Please note that this book…

Policy Reports
The Resurrection of Lazarus, or the Second Youth of NATO: The Consequences of the Russian Invasion on NATO
- Laurent Borzillo
- April 20, 2022
On February 24, 2022, when most experts believed that a significant but limited Russian attack on Eastern Ukraine was likely – at…

Hot Takes
How to Assess the Russian Military Threat on the Canadian Territory?
- Frédéric Lasserre
- April 4, 2022
The idea that Canadian territory could be attacked by a Russian air, ballistic or naval attack is not new. Scientific or media…

Policy Reports
New Technologies, Climate Change and War in Ukraine: What Impacts on NORAD Modernization?
- Camille Raymond
- March 21, 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the important modernization of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) back on the agenda…

Hot Takes
Ukraine and Taiwan: Not the Same Fight
- Rémy Carugati
- March 14, 2022
As the war is raging in Ukraine, shock waves reverberate in East Asia, where many in Taiwan fear they could be next.…

Policy Reports
Towards a Canadian Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: What to Learn From the American and European Examples?
- Maxandre Fortier, Marco Munier, Justin Massie
- February 25, 2022
All indicates that the Trudeau government will soon publish its strategy for the Indo-Pacific. Very little has been leaked from the document…

Hot Takes
The Ukrainian Crisis: What Kind of Transatlantic Unity?
- Rémy Carugati, Tancrède Jankowski, Justin Massie
- February 17, 2022
While Russia and the United States are in high tension over the imminence of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the prevention of…

Policy Briefs
The Space Occupied by International Law in the Dynamics of Sino-American Competition
- Louis-Benoit Lafontaine
- February 4, 2022
Law proves to be omnipresent in international relations today, notably acting as a regulator of interstate activities or as a vector of…

Hot Takes
Ukraine: Why NATO Must Make Concessions
- Rémy Carugati
- January 24, 2022
Russia has been massing troops near Ukraine’s borders for months. Over 100,000 Russian troops have been reported lately, including ballistic missile systems…

Hot Takes
Back to the Future? The Creation of a Foreign Human Intelligence Service in Canada
- Marco Munier
- January 17, 2022
The question of whether Canada should have a foreign human intelligence service, along the lines of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…

Policy Reports
Canada’s Role in the New Nuclear Landscape
- Louis-Benoit Lafontaine, Émile Lambert-Deslandes
- December 15, 2021
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference is scheduled for January 2022. Since its ratification in 1968 and the end of the…

Hot Takes
International Aid in the Face of the Afghan Humanitarian Crisis
- Rhita Ronda
- December 7, 2021
In 2001, the signing of the Bonn Agreement marked the beginning of a major Western investment in the cultural, economic and political…

Hot Takes
Trouble in Paradise? Germany’s Incoming “Traffic Light” Coalition and its Potential Impacts on NATO’s Security
- Émile Lambert-Deslandes
- December 2, 2021
After being ruled by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its junior coalition partners since 2005, Germany is set for Vice-Chancellor…

Hot Takes
After the AUKUS Crisis, Are France-U.S. Relations Back on Track?
- Pierre Morcos
- November 30, 2021
Pierre Morcos, "After the AUKUS Crisis, Are France-U.S. Relations Back on Track?," Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 16, 2021.

Policy Briefs
Naming and Shaming and Its Consequences on Civil Conflicts
- Jacob Fortier
- November 1, 2021
When acts of violence against civilians are widely publicized, Canada is frequently rushed to join its allies in public denunciation campaigns aimed…

Hot Takes
From the South China Sea to the Arctic: Linking Canada’s Interests
- Rémy Carugati
- October 25, 2021
The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are among the world’s most sensible and complex geopolitical questions. Three reasons render such disputes particularly…

Hot Takes
The Taliban and the Uyghur Dilemma: Where to Stand?
- Louis-Benoit Lafontaine
- October 20, 2021
While the 20th anniversary of September 11 terrorist attack is a reminder of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and the beginning of…

Policy Briefs
The American Strategic Pivot in the Indo-Pacific
- Jeanne Milot-Poulin, Rachel Sarfati, Jonathan Paquin
- October 19, 2021
Highlights The U.S. pivot to Asia strategy, launched by the Obama administration in 2011, comes in response to the significant structural change…

New Projects
Ad Hoc Crisis Response and International Organisations (ADHOCISM)
- Yf Reykers, John Karlsrud
- October 14, 2021
International organisations (IOs) are created with the aim of solving collective action problems when a crisis arises. Yet, member states have repeatedly…

Policy Briefs
The Renewal of the U.S. Strategic Planning
- Marco Munier
- October 12, 2021
Without turning away from counterterrorism, U.S. defense seems to be increasingly orienting its focus on China in an era of great power…

Hot Takes
Towards A European Rapid Reaction Force: Another Paper Tiger?
- Laurent Borzillo
- October 8, 2021
In its hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, contrary to the Biden administration’s initial messages that claimed to make the Trump era an incident…

Policy Briefs
Continental Defence Modernization and the Future of Canadian Defence Policy
- Camille Raymond, Marco Munier
- September 29, 2021
On August 14, the Canadian Department of National Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a joint statement on the…

Policy Reports
Is Canada’s Foreign Policy Really Feminist?
This policy report argues that, in order to deliver on its promise, the Government of Canada should carry out its Feminist Foreign…

Hot Takes
AUKUS: A New Anglosphere Partnership for the Development of Nuclear Submarine Capabilities
- Maxandre Fortier
- September 21, 2021
A new joint defence partnership will see the United States, Britain and Australia join together into what is already called AUKUS (Australia-UK-US).…

Hot Takes
Foreign Policy and the 44th General Election in Canada
- Justin Massie, Stéphanie Chouinard, Louis-Benoit Lafontaine
- September 17, 2021
“Canada’s foreign policy is more important now than it has been in a generation,” states the Conservative Party of Canada’s election platform.…

Hot Takes
The West’s Afghan Refugee Failure: A Symptom of Risk-Transfer War
- Theodore McLauchlin
- August 20, 2021
With Kabul fallen, Canada, the United States and their allies are now attempting to salvage what dignity they can from an utter…

Hot Takes
NATO’s Pivot to China: A Challenging Path
- Pierre Morcos
- June 23, 2021
Pierre Morcos, "NATO’s Pivot to China: A Challenging Path," Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 8, 2021.

Hot Takes
Local Aid Workers: The Often-Overlooked Pieces of the Humanitarian Puzzle
- Junru Bian
- June 18, 2021
Most humanitarian programmes commission aid consultants at various stages of their operationalization to evaluate the efficiency of relevant programme design and implementation.…

Hot Takes
The Iranian Presidential Election: The Regime Is Hardening
- Pierre Pahlavi
- June 9, 2021
With the Iranian presidential elections on June 18, 2021 looming, the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to be more frozen than ever.…

Policy Reports
Intelligence Cooperation in a Multipolar World: Non-American Perspectives
- Jonathan Mayne, Marco Munier
- May 28, 2021
This policy report follows the conference organized by the Network for Strategic Analysis entitled “Intelligence Cooperation in a Multipolar World: Non-American Perspectives”…

Policy Briefs
Did the Sun Finally Set? The UK’s Integrated Review on Defence and What Canada Can Learn from It
- Maxandre Fortier
- May 25, 2021
The British government finally published its Integrated Review last March, a year later than expected. Heralded as the most important review of…

Hot Takes
Nonviolence as a Strategy of Resistance in Myanmar
- Jacob Fortier
- April 28, 2021
Over the past few weeks, the continued and intensified protests in Myanmar despite the intensification of state repression is representative of a…

Policy Reports
Standing on Guard: Canada’s Strategic Interests in a Competitive World Order
- Gaëlle Rivard Piché
- April 26, 2021
Gaëlle Rivard Piché, "Standing on Guard: Canada’s Strategic Interests in a Competitive World Order," Vimy Paper, Volume 47, CDA Institute, March 2021.

Policy Briefs
NATO Enlargement 20 Years On: Some Thoughts
- Michel Fortmann, Stéfanie von Hlatky
- April 26, 2021
Almost three decades after NATO began to open its doors to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, it is time to revisit…

Policy Reports
Great Power Competition in the Arctic
This policy report explores the extent to which the concept of Arctic Exceptionalism collides with the return to great power politics, particularly…

Policy Reports
Revisiting Canada-Russia Relations: A New Paradigm for a Multipolar World
- Zachary Paikin
- April 9, 2021
This paper was co-published with the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy. Consult the English version: Zachary Paikin, "Revisiting Canada-Russia Relations: A New…

Reports
Report on CJOC Defence Planning Project
- Laurent Borzillo, Maxandre Fortier, Hannah Hollander, Justin Massie, Marco Munier, Camille Raymond, Philippe Dumas, Bibi Imre-Millei and Heni Pupco
- March 29, 2021
The Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA) has been tasked by the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC) to conduct a comparative study on…

Policy Reports
COVID-19 and Capacity-Building: Final Report
- Theodore McLauchlin
- March 26, 2021
During autumn 2020, the Network for Strategic Analysis hosted a series of online workshops on the links between COVID-19 and capacity-building activities.…

Hot Takes
The Vance Allegations : Next Steps for Culture Change in the Canadian Armed Forces
- Stéfanie von Hlatky
- March 4, 2021
This text was originally a statement to the Standing Committee on National Defence on February 26 2021, in the context of the…

Hot Takes
Towards an Easing of Tensions Between the United States and Turkey?
- Jessy Benoit
- March 4, 2021
The ongoing diplomatic crisis between the United States and Turkey will have a significant impact on Canadian defence policy. While some strategic…

Hot Takes
Intelligence in the Face of the Chinese Threat
- Marco Munier
- February 25, 2021
In September 2020, the Chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Adam Schiff, published a short critical article…

Hot Takes
A New Regional Order in the “Indo-Pacific”? Lessons for Canada
- Stéphanie Martel
- February 24, 2021
As the frenzy intensifies around the “Indo-Pacific,” Canada must play its cards right with a mix of prudence and creativity. To do…

Policy Briefs
What is Grey Zone Deterrence?
- Hannah Hollander
- February 12, 2021
The types of conflict states aim to deter have evolved since the Cold War, presenting new challenges each time. Deterrence theory became…

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

Policy Reports
For Greater Inclusion and Diversity in International Security: Courses of Action for the Network for Strategic Analysis
- Private: Marianne Bouchard, Gaëlle Rivard Piché
- January 29, 2021
From academia to politics, issues of inclusion and diversity are gaining increasing importance in different spheres of Canadian society. In international security,…

Hot Takes
Transparency and Norm Cultivation in the Space Domain: Canada’s Contribution
- Alexander MacDonald
- January 27, 2021
The international community has thus far failed to create consensual and legally-binding rules for the use of outer space beyond those specified…

Policy Briefs
Between Alignment and Distancing: The Strategic Dilemma of Washington’s Allies in the Biden Era
- Pierre Colautti, Jonathan Paquin
- January 20, 2021
Key Points: Donald Trump's tenure has eroded the confidence of key democratic allies in the United States. So much so that the…

Policy Briefs
Rethinking Canada’s Defence Strategy: What Lessons Can We Learn From the UK and Australia?
- Maxandre Fortier
- January 19, 2021
The mandate of Donald Trump confirmed a strong trend since the financial crisis of 2008: the American hegemon is in decline. Furthermore,…

Hot Takes
Canadian Armed Forces and COVID-19: Abroad and at Home, Adapting in Times of Crisis
- Anaïs El-Amraoui
- January 15, 2021
Throughout the fall of 2020, Theodore McLauchlin and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Professors at the University of Montreal, organized a series of virtual workshops…

Policy Reports
The Origins and Ulterior Consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh War: Barometer of Russia’s Relations With Turkey
- Jacques Lévesque
- December 16, 2020
The Nagorno-Karabakh armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which began on September 27, lasted nearly two months and is said to have…

Hot Takes
NATO in the Age of COVID-19: From Health Crisis to Political Crisis?
- Arthur Stein
- December 3, 2020
This blog post is written as part of the Cycle of Virtual Workshops on Building Capacity in the Age of COVID-19. The…

Hot Takes
Between the West and East: Italy’s Ambiguous Position in a Changing World
- Marco Munier
- December 3, 2020
In a context of increasing competition between the great powers and a relative decline of the United States, this article aims to…

Policy Reports
Gender, Peacekeeping, and Operational Effectiveness: Recommendations for the Deployment of Women in Peacekeeping Operations
In the twenty years following the adoption of the first United Nations Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the…

Policy Reports
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Catalyst for a New Regional Order
- Pierre Jolicoeur
- November 25, 2020
On November 9, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an end-of-hostilities agreement, under the aegis of Russia. This ceasefire, which enshrines a military victory…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Policy Briefs
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Policy Briefs
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Policy Briefs
Rethinking the Impact of US Military Training on Coups
- Marc-Olivier Cantin, 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…

Articles
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
Capacity Building Before and After COVID-19
- Ludwine Tchatat
- October 20, 2020
On Friday, September 25, The Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA) organized the first panel of a cycle of 5 workshops on capacity…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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,…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
Turkey’s Disputed Role in NATO
- 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:…

Hot Takes
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…

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…

Policy 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…

Hot Takes
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Policy Briefs
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…

Hot Takes
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…

Articles
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…

Reports
Network Challenge Report: COVID-19
In June 2020, amid the most severe global health crisis in a generation, the MINDS Program’s Collaborative Networks answered a call for…

Reports
Intersectionality Strategy
- 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…

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.…

Policy Briefs
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…

Policy Briefs
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…

Policy 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…