Janakan Muthukumar discusses the standing of ISIS under international law by examining the ISIS’s locus of political authority.
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What Is The Future Of Peace?
On June 18, 2020, the NATO Association of Canada collaborated with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) to hold a discussion with Laurie Smolenski and Holly White.
First Past the Post: An Outdated Electoral System
Ravdeep Sandal explores alternatives electoral systems to the First Past the Post System. It is time for Canada to update its system like most democracies have done.
Euro-Caspian Energy Relations in the Post-COVID World
On 11 June 2020, Dr. Robert M. Cutler, Director of the Energy Security Program, spoke to a webinar “Energy Issues in the Post-Covid World”, organized by the Center for Analysis of International Relations, Baku, Azerbaijan. This is a transcript of his remarks.
Disinforming Ourselves to Death: Propaganda, Social Media, Data Weapons In the Age of AI – A Moderated Discussion with Alexandra Alvarova
ON June 3rd, 2020, the NAOC hosed Alexandra Alvarova and Dr. Joseph McQuade for a discussion focused on propaganda, hybrid-warfare, data-weapons, artificial intelligence and disinformation.
2020 Vision: The Need to Expand the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves
2020 has been rough for Canada and for the world. In this article, Justin Dell argues that the emergence of multiple security contingencies across the globe this year, many of which pose a direct threat to Canadians, necessitates that policymakers significantly enlarge the Canadian Armed Forces reserves in order to ensure that Canadian military personnel are not stretched too thinly as they respond to an ever-growing list of emergencies.
Climate Change, Human Rights, Capitalism, and Chinese Expansion: How COVID-19 is reshaping the world
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most important global event since World War II. We are living in a historic period that will change our world forever. Although each of these issues warrants in-depth discussion in its own right, this article aims to begin a conversation regarding how the COVID-19 crisis is currently shaping each of Read More…
Galactic Peacekeeper or Warrior? Canada’s Choice
“I was saying it the other day—’cause we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space—I said, maybe we need a new force. We’ll call it the space force,” remarked U.S. President Donald Trump at a speech in early 2018. “And I was not really serious. And then I said, what a great idea. Maybe Read More…
Special Report: Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Bombings – An Intelligence Failure? Or an Intelligence Operation?
Since the Easter Sunday bombings that rocked Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019, killing more than 250 people and injuring another 500, questions remain unanswered surrounding the role of the Sri Lankan military and intelligence services before and after the event. Even though the Sri Lankan authorities blamed a local group, National Thowheed Jamaath Read More…
Cyber Stability in the Age of Covid-19
On May 22nd, 2020, The NATO Association of Canada hosted a Zoom discussion on issues relating to cyber conflict and security in the Age of Covid-19 and what international institutions like NATO are able to do to address this challenge.