Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Strategic Reports

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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

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…

Strategic Reports

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Strategic Reports

Rethinking the Impact of US Military Training on Coups

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

Capacity Building Before and After COVID-19

Ludwine Tchatat
October 20, 2020

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

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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,…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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:…

Analyses

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…

Strategic 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…

Strategic 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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Strategic Reports

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…

Analyses

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…

Analyses

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…

Strategic 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…

Strategic 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…

Strategic 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.…

Strategic Reports

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…

Strategic Reports

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…

Strategic 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…

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