The NATO Association of Canada’s Society, Culture, and Security program takes a look at the issues that impact Canadians’ every day lives while connecting them to international relations. The program covers a wide range of topics, which include: pop culture, art, film, global events, and socio-political relations. In addition, Society, Culture, and IR aims to examine and provide in-depth analyses that relate international affairs to the interests of Canadian society.
Public support for NATO is often treated as a background statistic – measured through opinion polls, but rarely examined in depth. In democratic societies like Canada, however, public support is more than a reflection of sentiment. It is a key source of democratic legitimacy for foreign and security policy, shaping political decision-making and sustaining long-term Read More…
This article was written prior to the joint US-Israel attack on Iran. The following article is a reflection of events prior to military intervention. The recent protest in Iran, which began on December 28, 2025, is far more than a reaction to economic hardship. Although the initial unrest was driven by inflation, currency devaluation, and Read More…
Sudan has descended into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises of the moment, with more than 11 million people internally displaced, over 21 million facing acute food insecurity, and several areas assessed at emergency orfamine-level conditions. The war that precipitated this crisis began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Read More…
For most of human history, space was a realm of imagination; a canvas for myth, curiosity, and scientific dreaming. Yet today, that same silent expanse has become one of the most critical, fragile, and politically charged domains of human existence. Space has shifted from a frontier of scientific ambition into a contested arena where geopolitical Read More…
In the opening credits of The Jetsons, George Jetson glides through Orbit City, where technology has freed humanity from the drudgery of everyday life. The show offered a comforting fantasy in 1962; a city built on technological infrastructure that could dissolve urban problems altogether. Six decades later, as real cities rush to install sensors in Read More…
Dans les conflits armés contemporains, la violence ne se limite plus aux affrontements militairesdirects, mais s’étend à des leviers indirects visant à affaiblir la résilience des sociétés civiles. Elles’étend désormais aux infrastructures civiles essentielles, et en particulier aux systèmes de santé,qui sont de plus en plus pris pour cibles de manière délibérée. Pourquoi la destruction Read More…
La réélection de Donald Trump en novembre 2024 a relancé le débat sur l’avenir de la guerre russo-ukrainienne et, plus crucial encore, sur la cohérence de l’alliance atlantique. À peine investi, Trump a fait fuiter début novembre 2025 un plan de paix en 28 points pour l’Ukraine, inspiré d’un document russe et négocié en secret Read More…
On January 2nd 2026, 45,000 households in southwestern Berlin woke up to find themselves without power or heating in the middle of winter. Overnight, assailants set fire to a cable bridge near a power plant, disrupting parts of the Berlin power supply network for weeks. Even after power was eventually restored, the subsequent fallout from the city government’s lacklustre response has led to calls for the mayor, who had been caught playing tennis during Read More…
Author’s Note: This essay is offered as a conceptual case for the deliberate reintegration of Canada’s universities and Armed Forces as a matter of strategic sovereignty and civic resilience. It is informed by the development of the Serving Scholar Program at the University of Guelph, an initiative designed to support students serving in the Canadian Read More…
In June of 2025, Hong Kong Youth Activist Joshua Wong was brought in front of West Kowloon court to face more charges under China’s 2019 ‘National Security Law,’ which caused the 2020 protests so brutally repressed by the Chinese Communist Party. Accused of conspiring with fellow activist, and exile, Nathan Law to promote sanctions against China, Wong, Read More…