Thursday, September 29, 2022

Is Ukraine the Cyberwar That Wasn’t?

Is Ukraine the Cyberwar That Wasn’t? Although there has not been a “cyber Pearl Harbor,” there are many disruptive actions consistent with “grey zone” tactics. Stephanie Carvin September 22, 2022   Is the Russian-Ukraine conflict “the first cyber world war”? Researchers, scholars and government officials appear divided on the... More

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Elliot Tepper digs into the North Korean nuclear standoff, US immigration politics, and the realities of climate change

Elliot Tepper digs into the geopolitics of the North Korean nuclear standoff with the West, relating it to the broader concern of weakening barriers in a more nuclear world, US immigration and identity politics, with passing reference to the European Union and Turkey, and concludes with the epic monsoon floods in South Asia and how they... More

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Elliot Tepper reviews the big summer stories and previews future international threats

Elliot Tepper reviews the big themes of summer 2017 and and previews the future threats facing the international order: North Korean nuclear weapons, Indian-Chinese relations, US domestic politics and the fallout from Hurricane Harvey, Middle Eastern politics, NAFTA negotiations, Brexit in Europe, and populism worldwide on 1310 News' Ottawa Today... More

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Elliot Tepper unpacks Canada’s strategy in upcoming NAFTA talks

Elliot Tepper unpacks Canada's pre-negotiation strategies in upcoming NAFTA talks with the United States on National Post Radio with Anthony Furey Canada Talks Sirius XM 167.  ... More

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Stephen Saideman weighs in on Trump’s recent policy statement on the war in Afghanistan

Stephen Saideman weighs in on US President Trump's recent policy statement outlining potentially substantive policy changes on the ongoing war in Afghanistan in the Globe and... More

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Jez Littlewood explains the increasing utility of vehicles in terror attacks

Jez Littlewood explains how terror attacks using vehicles targeting civilians is becoming a 'fact of life' in North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the world in an interview with Radio Canada... More

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Elliot Tepper discusses Trump’s response to Charlottesville, North Korea, and NAFTA negotiations

Elliot Tepper is interviewed on 1310 News' Ottawa Today by Mark Sutcliffe to discuss several pressing topics in international affairs: the Trump Presidency, the response to Charlottesville, North Korea, the start of NAFTA negotiations, the 70th anniversary of India's and Pakistan's statehood, and the UK's most recent proposal about... More

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Elliot Tepper comments on rising tensions with North Korea

North Korea poses a threat to global peace and Elliot Tepper comments on why Canada should be... More

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Elliot Tepper comments on the state of NAFTA Negotiations

From the mixed messages coming from the US to Canada's strategy and Mexico's fate, Elliot Tepper comments on the state of NAFTA... More

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Stephanie Carvin argues why the Khadr case shows the perils of ignoring intl law

Following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, U.S. Department of Defense lawyers conducted a survey of all of the law of war violations that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had committed during the conflict. The results of their study were definitive: Not one single action committed by Saddam’s forces that violated the laws of war resulted... More

Friday, June 30, 2017

Rob Huebert looks at the Arctic Council and Canada

Canadian relations with Russia have just gotten a lot more interesting. On the one hand, Canada, Russia and six of their Arctic neighbours have just completed a successful ministerial meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, during which there were some very notable achievements for international Arctic... More

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Canada’s New Defence Policy Under the Microscope

A in-depth and hard look at Canada's New Defence... More

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

CSIDS is looking for a new Director as Andrea Charron returns to the University of Manitoba

CSIDS is looking for a new Director.  Date to apply is 14... More

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Commentary on Canada`s new Development Policy

In CIDP`s  latest report, Responding to the Changing Global Development Context: How Can Canada Deliver?, we highlight key messages in areas that resonate strongly with Canada’s new... More

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Jim Cox comments on the new (non) Defence Policy

The new defence policy statement provides a plan for the Department of National Defence, writes James Cox. But, like its predecessors, it does not offer a government-wide defence... More

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Andrea Charron speaks to CBC about the new Defence Policy

Andrea Charron discusses the ins and outs of the Government's new defence... More

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Elliot Tepper comments on Minister Freeland’s Foreign Policy Statement

CSIDS' research fellow Elliot Tepper puts Minister Freeland's speech into... More

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Thomas Juneau provides initial thoughts on Canada’s new Defence Policy

The Liberal government finally released on Wednesday, after 18 months of anticipation, its new defence policy. As with any other official policy document, and especially defence policies, it is important to remember that its value is limited. A comparison of recent defence policies – the last ones were released in 2008, 2005 and 1994... More

Monday, June 5, 2017

Stephen Saideman considers the future of NATO

A panel of experts, including Stephen Saideman, considers the future of... More

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Elliot Temper comments on world events on Ottawa Today

Dr. Tepper provides insight into the recent car bombing in Afghanistan and much... More

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

NPSIA MA Candidate Eric Flemming Suggests its time for Canada to Renegotiate BMD

Canada and the United States have a long history of dancing around a possible Canadian role in the US’s ballistic missile defence (BMD) for North America (Fergusson 2005). In 2005, this dance appeared to end when then-prime minister Paul Martin refused participation in BMD. However, the debate appears to have been re-opened somewhat in... More

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Elliot Tepper comments on attempted coup in the Philippines

Militants with ties to the Islamic State have taken control of a city in the southern Philippines. Violence erupted in Marawi after a botched raid to take down Abu Sayaff leader Isnilon Hapilon Tuesday. Government security forces battled Hapilon’s fighters, as well as Maute reinforcements. Tepper unpacks the... More

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Alex Wilner helps make sense of the Manchester Bombing

The suspected suicide bomber who struck at a Manchester pop concert packed with teens was described by members of the city’s Libyan community Tuesday as “withdrawn” and “devout.”  Alex Wilner unpacks what we know so... More

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Colin Roberts provides a NATO Summit Primer

On May 25-26, NATO leaders will meet in Brussels. This will be the first multilateral forum in which President Donald Trump will be in attendance, and where much of the focus will be following his varied comments on NATO. From its original 12 members, NATO now stands at 28, including many former Warsaw Pact... More

Monday, May 22, 2017

Thomas Juneau outlines Trudeau’s successful Trump strategy…. for now

Few countries have more to lose economically from a hostile Donald Trump administration than Canada. The country’s prosperity is largely dependent on privileged access to the U.S. market: About 75 percent of Canadian exports are sold in the United States, representing one-third of Canada’s GDP and providing for one-fifth of Canadian jobs.... More

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Secretary of Defense Mattis outlines US Defense Policy vis-à-vis ISIS

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Mattis, General Dunford and Special Envoy McGurk on the Campaign to Defeat ISIS in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph F. Dunford; Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic... More

Friday, May 19, 2017

Stephanie Carvin outlines consequences for allies when Trump shares info with Russia

United States President Donald Trump may have given highly classified, sensitive information about the Islamic State to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Washington last week. However, even while revelations unfold and are yet to be confirmed, the story itself — first published by the Washington Post — raises serious... More

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Andrea Charron and Jim Fergusson discuss the future of NORAD

While most attention on NORAD and North American defence cooperation is focused on the modernization of the North Warning System (NWS), significant developments have occurred that suggest modernization will be accompanied by significant evolutionary changes to the Command. The new threat environment, centered upon Russian behaviour in Crimea,... More

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Thomas Juneau outlines 5 must “knows” about the elections in Iran

Iranians are going to the polls to elect a president this Friday. To some extent, it does not matter who wins: The Iranian president is subordinate to the Supreme Leader, who has final say on all important matters of state. As such, we should not expect significant changes in Iran’s foreign and domestic policies... More

Friday, May 12, 2017

Val Percival outlines what a real feminist foreign policy looks like

Canada has been working to empower women globally for decades — why aren’t we making more progress? As Valerie Percival writes, efforts to build gender equitable societies must work on both the bricks (laws, formal institutions and services) and the mortar (societies’ beliefs around... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Andrea Charron presents part 1 on Canada, the Arctic and the US. Part 2 focuses on Russia.

Given a new US President and an aggressive Russia what might these factors portend for Canada and the Arctic especially given geopolitical events elsewhere?  This 2 part blog, for which I am grateful to Heather Exner-Pirot, Jim Fergusson, Ted McDorman, and Joël Plouffe for their invaluable input, will first look at the relationship between... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

CSIS releases its report: What comes after Daesh/ISIS?

The situation in Iraq leaves little room for optimism. It is true that some genuine, albeit slow, progress has been  made towards retakingMosul, but Daesh’s effective, determined defence of the city has made the offensive difficult and forced the Iraqi government to deploy units from the other provinces of the country. This has undermined... More

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Stephen Saideman unpacks the “Sajjan Affair”

Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has gotten into hot water for stating that he was the architect for a major effort, Operation Medusa,* in Afghanistan in 2006. Whether he was or was not (probably not), this is problematic to those soldiers who serve because he is seen as taking credit for what was a multi-person... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Chris Burn calculates growing cost of maintaining the Dempster Highway

Chris Burn at Carleton University is tracking the growing cost of maintaining Yukon’s Dempster Highway as warmer weather brings more landslides, washouts and... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Elliot Tepper Comments on Trump and the Middle East

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Elliot Tepper from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs provides cogent... More

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