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  • What’s Next? The Future of NATO-China Relations
  • Special Report: The Id, Individuality, and the Genesis of National Foreign Policy
  • Ukraine’s Central Role in Europe’s Energy Security
  • Natural Gas in Mozambique: A Contentious Path to Development
  • Was Twitter Right to Ban Donald Trump?

What’s Next? The Future of NATO-China Relations

NATO will find itself amidst growing U.S-China competition and an increasing presence of China on its Eastern Flank in the post-pandemic world. The Future of NATO-China relations is dependent on NATO’s ability to develop a niche for itself to enhance cooperation with China as a partner and competitor while effectively addressing the security risks that […]

Special Report: The Id, Individuality, and the Genesis of National Foreign Policy

NAOC research analyst Anvesh Jain reflects on how the upbringing and identity of our leaders can shape the intimate contours of their foreign policy – the assumptions they make, the dogmas they hold, and the ingrained mental maps with which they approach the world and its variable challenges.

Ukraine’s Central Role in Europe’s Energy Security

Gas transit through Ukraine is a matter not just of energy security but of national security for Ukraine and other countries in the wider region. Russia showed its willingness to the weaponize gas trade when it cut off supplies to Ukraine and Europe in the middle of winter in 2006 and 2009. Many believe that […]

Natural Gas in Mozambique: A Contentious Path to Development

In this article, guest contributor Ethan Schwartz examines the impact of climate change and corruption in Mozambique following its agreement with French oil supermajor, Total in 2020

Was Twitter Right to Ban Donald Trump?

In this feature of the Editor’s Forum, the program editors at the NATO Association weigh in on whether banning Donald Trump from Twitter was the right decision.

  1. What’s Next? The Future of NATO-China Relations
  2. Special Report: The Id, Individuality, and the Genesis of National Foreign Policy
  3. Ukraine’s Central Role in Europe’s Energy Security
  4. Natural Gas in Mozambique: A Contentious Path to Development
  5. Was Twitter Right to Ban Donald Trump?

Canadian Armed Forces

Resurrecting the Canadian Dream: The case for the 21st Century Avro Arrow

Samer Khurshid examines the story of the Canadian CF-105 Avro Arrow and how a re-imagined Arrow would be Canada’s best bet in the Stealth Age.

  • Risen From the Grave: Reimagining Battleships Key to Growing NATO’s Naval Power
  • Canadian Attack Helicopters: A Much Needed Capability
  • Why Women Play an Essential Role in the Canadian Armed Forces
  • The Danger of Gender Stereotyping Canada’s ‘Jihadi Brides’

Security, Trade and the Economy

Biden and the Comprehensive and Progressive Transpacific Partnership: Challenges for Re-entry

The greatest challenge for Biden in the Pacific may be proving that U.S participation in multilateral-free trade agreements is a necessity and not a luxury. Emilio Angeles writes.

  • The Future of Canada-Japan Relations in the Post-Trump Era
  • Russia-NATO (mis)interpretation of Post-Cold War Enlargement; A Case Study of the Security Dilemma
  • Uncertain Alliance: Turkey’s goals in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the implications for Canada-Turkey relations
  • Dragon Slayer: The Partial Foreign Policy of Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party

Canada’s NATO

What does the NDP think of NATO?

Rachael McCulloch takes a look at the past and present of the New Democratic Party’s relationship with NATO.

  • An Intelligence Success: Canada Got it Right on Iraq
  • A Discussion with Social Entrepreneur Mr. Vuong About his Newest Venture
  • 2020 Vision: The Need to Expand the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves
  • The Beaver Caught in a Dragon’s Mouth: Canada China Relations

Cyber Security and Information Warfare

The World in a State of Cyber Warfare

In this article, Sarah explores the future of cyber wars and the implication of NATO.

  • A China Strategy Begins at Home: Foreign Interference Legislation in Canada
  • Documentary Review: Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma”
  • Military-Civil Fusion in China and the growth of the Belt and Road Initiative
  • Is TikTok The Next Huawei? Why Some See a Video-Sharing App as a Threat to National Security

Emerging Security

Natural Gas in Mozambique: A Contentious Path to Development

In this article, guest contributor Ethan Schwartz examines the impact of climate change and corruption in Mozambique following its agreement with French oil supermajor, Total in 2020

  • Special Report – Trump’s NATO Legacy: What Does It Mean for Joe Biden?
  • La France et l’OTAN, « je t’aime, moi non plus »
  • The Hidden Costs of Cotton: Charting a Path Towards a More Sustainable Future
  • Is Covid-19 Helping or Hurting Environmental Action?

NATO Operations

A Case for NATO in the Sahel

This article provides an overview of the ongoing conflict in the Sahel and highlights potential roles for NATO involvement.

  • What Role Will Mercenaries Play in Future Warfare?: An Interview with Dr. Sean McFate
  • Evading Accountability: Russia’s Wagner Group
  • Does the Future Hold Nuclear Insecurity?
  • The Islamic State Mounts a Resurgence Amid COVID-19

Society, Culture, and Security

Special Report: The Id, Individuality, and the Genesis of National Foreign Policy

NAOC research analyst Anvesh Jain reflects on how the upbringing and identity of our leaders can shape the intimate contours of their foreign policy – the assumptions they make, the dogmas they hold, and the ingrained mental maps with which they approach the world and its variable challenges.

  • What are the actual extent – and limits – of the power of the Prime Minister?
  • Review: There’s Something in the Water
  • Review: The Great Crash 1929
  • A Discussion with Social Entrepreneur Mr. Vuong About his Newest Venture

Women in Security

U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: What it Means for Women

Author Mary Peplinski discusses the fragile peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban. The article examines how an early withdrawal of American troops could lead to worsening violence and might compromise the advances of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

  • The Female Qur’an Experts Helping to Fight Radical Islam
  • Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
  • Why Women Play an Essential Role in the Canadian Armed Forces
  • The Danger of Gender Stereotyping Canada’s ‘Jihadi Brides’

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