NATO Allies look to reconsider how responsibility is distributed across the Alliance. Rather than relying on increased defence spending alone, NATO should move to prioritize complementary capabilities and a more sustainable division of responsibilities. Canada could be a key player in this transition.
NATO’s relationship with its Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) partners, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, now runs mainly through working-level defence industrial cooperation rather than summit diplomacy. This shift began under the joint framework agreed at the 2025 Hague Summit, but it operates as four separate bilateral tracks with no common defence industrial venue. The Read More…
For most Canadians, passenger rail is not a topic of great everyday importance. Canadians made only 4.4 million journeys with Via Rail (the country’s national rail operator) in 2025, compared to almost 160 million passengers passing through Canadian airports in the same year. Canada’s passenger rail network is underdeveloped and unreliable. Canada is the only Read More…
Climate change is deeply relevant security studies, closely tied to military preparedness and human security. In this article, Mahnan Omar discusses how establishing climate security is key to NATO’s security interests. This article explores the multifaceted threats to state and regional security stemming from climate change’s impact on resource availability, geopolitical tension, migration, and military activities. As extreme weather events exacerbate vulnerabilities, especially gendered ones, and create conditions for extremist recruitment, nations are compelled to reconsider traditional security paradigms. NATO can build climate resilience through a triple-nexus strategy that coordinates policy, improves operational planning and readiness, and integrates gender into climate initiatives. Women must be involved at every level, from local communities to policymaking and fieldwork.
As Canada expands defence spending and implements its new Defence Industrial Strategy, can it strengthen domestic production while still meeting NATO’s need for timely and interoperable capabilities? Vaibhav Kaushal examines how Canada’s Build–Partner–Buy approach could balance domestic defence-industrial priorities with NATO’s wider production requirements.
When does a cyberattack become an “armed attack”? In this article, Samantha Baryer examines the growing need for a shared framework, using the WannaCry and Viasat cyberattacks to explore how non-kinetic and cascading effects could inform an evolving understanding of NATO’s Article 5 in the cyber age.
NATO Association JRF Dorigen Gray investigates how a Canadian ethnonationalist organization is mirroring the rise of European radical movements, using the same narratives and tactics to gain ground. Examining how the Dominion Society of Canada uses disinformation, particularly the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, to support the policy of “remigration,” the article traces how the same mechanism is at work in Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD). Ultimately, the question shifts to how successfully deceptive narratives are replicated, and the implications these groups could have for the strength of NATO’s alliance.
While climate change is undoubtedly an urgent security challenge for NATO, its risks extend beyond physical and environmental consequences. This article examines climate disinformation as a hybrid threat that exploits uncertainty to delay climate action, divide allies, and undermine trust. Rather than attempting to convince populations to reject climate change entirely, climate disinformation can create enough doubt and disagreement to weaken collective action.
