• NATO and Crisis Management Operations: A Canadian Perspective
    New report by Elinor Sloan now available from The Chicago Council's conference "Smart Defense and the Future of NATO." Click banner to download the report.
  • iPolitics webcast: Do we need a national security strategy?
    CDFAI Vice President, Colin Robertson, CDFAI Fellow Ferry de Kerckhove and Strategic Studies Working Group member David Perry discussed “Do we need a national security strategy?” with iPolitics. Click here to watch the panel.
  • Engaging the Obama Administration
    Now more than ever, there is a need for bold and creative leadership to make the best of a relationship that is the lifeblood of the Canadian economy and the foundation of our security.
 

In the Media

Canada's Libya mission costs soar in new report

by CTVNews.ca  (feat. David Perry),
CTV News, May 11, 2012  

 

Gender equality and the Arab Spring– if only anyone paid any attention

by Ferry de Kerckhove, iPolitics
May 8, 2012

China rises over the Pacific: Kent

by Simon Kent, Toronto Sun,
May 5, 2012

ARCHIVES

Policy Update

 

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring

by Ferry de Kerckhove

 

Ferry de Kerckhove concludes in a new Policy Update that Egypt is far away from the what the revolutionaries hoped would emerge. The question is what role will Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood play in the countries future given the uncertainty of long term outcomes varying from a facade of democracy to a full takeover by extremist Islamists.
  

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Country Study

 

Philippines

by Peter Sutherland

 

A new Country Study by Peter Sutherland shows that the country has gained new confidence as a result of the recent election of a new president, but in order to regain its position as one of the leading economies in Southeast Asia it will need sound macroeconomic policy, investment in infrastructure, and effective programs to address the social and economic disparities that fuel local insurgencies.

 

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Other Papers

 

NATO and Crisis Management Operations:
A Canadian Perspective

by Elinor Sloan

 

Serbia Between East
and West

by Hrach Gregorian

 

China’s Shadow:
A Canadian Concern?

by Roger Girouard 

On the Horizon

 

Nobody Knows Anything: Canada’s Cyber Insecurities


May 24 - 25, 2012
The University of Calgary Downtown Campus Event Centre  906 8th Ave SW,  Calgary, AB

Conference Topics:

State of the Art–Attackers & Targets
State of the Art–Defense
Deterrence–Uniting the Defence
Blue Sky Assessment
Cyber Policy Recommendations

Featured Speakers: John Adams, John Aycock, John Sheldon,
Ron Deibert, and Harvey Rishikof

For more information:
Christine Verdonck at 403.220.6836 or verdonck@ucalgary.ca
 
Click here to reserve your spot.
 

Events Calendar

 

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Canada

Canadian Peacekeeping Is Not What It Used To Be

The Hollowing out of Corporate Canada?

Domestic Demographics and
Canadian Foreign Policy

 

Latest Blog Entries

Another F-35 “Oops!”

Obama Nixes Keystone XL Pipeline: Major US Press Coverage

Taliban Crusaders

Perils of War With Iran

 
 

United States

Canada-US Relations in the Arctic

Canada-US Relations: Are We Getting it Right?

Canada and the United States “What Does it Mean to be Good Neighbours?”

Engaging the Obama Administration

 

Security

CFIS: A Foreign Intelligence Service for Canada

Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta

Operations Security and the Public’s Need to Know

 
 

World

A Marshall Plan for Haiti?
Think Again

Effective Aid and Beyond: How Canada Can Help Poor Countries

Contemporary Piracy off the
Horn of Africa

 

Middle East

Fertilizing the Arab Spring

Dancing on Snake Heads in Yemen

The Social Underpinnings of the Current Unrest in North Africa
and the Middle East


 
   

 



Monthly Column

  April 2012
Defence Cuts:
The US and Canada

by J. L. Granatstein

The Dispatch

 

Now Available
Spring 2012 Edition of The Dispatch
 


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