May 13th, 2017
South Koreans within the firing range of Kim Jong-un’s brandished missiles and nuclear warheads might be expected to welcome protection wherever it can be found, but they remain far from united on the question of hosting American missile defence batteries on their soil. Indeed, in Moon Jae-in, they’ve elected this week the presidential candidate most […]
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Arctic Security, Armed Conflict, Defence and Human Security, Nuclear Disarmament
May 11th, 2017
To South Koreans well within the firing range of a regime and leader of dubious stability and demeanour, it might seem eminently sensible to pursue protection from Kim Jong-un’s brandished missiles and nuclear warheads, but those same South Koreans are far from united on hosting American missile defence batteries on their In fact, they enhance […]
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Arctic Security, Armed Conflict, Defence and Human Security, Nuclear Disarmament
March 18th, 2017
Paul Meyer (a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, he currently teaches international security at Simon Fraser University and is a Senior Fellow at The Simons Foundation, Vancouver) has done the arms control/disarmament community an important service by leading us through a detailed recounting of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s “strategy of suffocation” – an insufficiently recognized […]
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Defence and Human Security, Nuclear Disarmament
March 14th, 2017
Yet another news headline declares “Canadian defence spending among lowest in NATO despite small increase last year.” The Canadian Press/CBC story then opens with a reference to the NATO Secretary-General’s annual report for 2016 which is said to show “Canada lagging behind most of its allies.” In reality, Canada’s defence spending is well ahead of […]
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Arctic Security, Armed Conflict, Defence and Human Security
March 9th, 2017
For Canadians keen on joining the American strategic-range ballistic missile defence system, the Administration of Barack Obama seemed to present the perfect opportunity. Under a president much-admired by Canadians, opposition to signing on to a huge, expensive, and highly controversial Pentagon program would arguably have been considerably muted. Added to that, North Korea’s apparently inexorable […]
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Arctic Security, Defence and Human Security, Nuclear Disarmament
March 7th, 2017
All three mainstream political parties see Canada’s security as heavily dependent on a stable and prosperous world order, guided by rules applying equally to all and that respect Canadian sovereignty and territorial integrity. That in turn predisposes Canada Now, Kamagra is offering lower cost http://www.cloverleafbowl.com/jid7195.html cheap viagra 100mg made by Sildenafil citrate after the omission […]
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Armed Conflict, Defence and Human Security
February 17th, 2017
NATO is now establishing what the Globe and Mail called “a modest NATO force to draw a line in Eastern Europe”1 and what NATO itself calls its “biggest reinforcement of collective defence since the end of the Cold War.”2 Either way, it hasn’t erased doubts about the willingness, or wisdom, of the alliance’s threat to […]
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Armed Conflict, Defence and Human Security
January 28th, 2017
Headlines tell of a burgeoning Russian/American naval nuclear arms race and already tens of billions of dollars are being promised and spent in both countries on “modernizing” seaborne strategic nuclear weapons systems. While tactical nuclear weapons have been kept off their attack and general purpose submarines for Here are various patterns, which can make the […]
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Arctic Security, Nuclear Disarmament
January 26th, 2017
Prepared by Ernie Regehr and Michelle Jackett. This compilation of current military facilities in the circumpolar region continues to be offered as an aid to addressing a key question posed by the Canadian Senate more than five years ago: “Is the [Arctic] region again becoming militarized?” If anything, that question has become more interesting and […]
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Arctic Security, Defence and Human Security
December 31st, 2016
The fifth annual Arctic Yearbook, with a primary focus on the Arctic Council, is now available. This 2016 edition includes a broad range of scholarly articles offering critical analysis of the Council’s 20-year record, and the editors clearly like what they see. In their Introduction, they acknowledge its imperfections, but also declare that “the Arctic Council […]
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Arctic Security
