Publications - Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA)

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 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.…

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…

Reports

Network Challenge Report: COVID-19

July 28, 2020

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

Compendium

Managing Traditional and New Threats through International Cooperation

Stéfanie von Hlatky, Justin Massie
May 17, 2022

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

Hot Takes

Ensuring the European Union’s Economic Security: a Revolution in the European Model

Olivier Sueur
February 8, 2024

After thirty years of quite peaceful coexistence between the economic and geopolitical spheres (1990-2020), the former is being overtaken by the latter…

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

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…

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

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…

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,…

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…

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…