Rachel Potter analyzes Kevin Hamilton’s appointment to NATO, arguing that it reflects Canada’s expanding institutional influence within the alliance while highlighting the growing strategic importance of the Caucasus and Central Asia as NATO deepens its engagement amid rising geopolitical instability.
NATO Mission Iraq seeks to include WPS in its longstanding operations. However, the recent killing of Iraqi-Canadian women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed highlights that insecurity for women remains prominent in Iraq, as women’s rights lag in the face of continued instability. As it supports Iraq’s reconstruction, NATO Mission Iraq must undertake a renewed commitment to implement WPS across its operations, support a safe environment for women’s rights defenders and civil society, and foster sustainable peacebuilding and societal resilience.
NATO’s own reporting names Taiwan as a direct stake in European security and yet relations with Taipei remain limited, Anastasia Crook examines how NATO members can still build practical cooperation with Taiwan without waiting for a consensus to be reached on Taiwan’s status.
What happens when fake news looks almost identical to the real thing? This article highlights how Russia’s Doppelganger disinformation campaigns use cloned news websites to make disinformation appear credible and familiar. Focusing on the 2024 European Parliament elections as a case study, it shows how these campaigns exploit existing concerns such as immigration, economic insecurity, and support for Ukraine to amplify divisions within Europe. More broadly, it considers how these tactics could shape future elections, influence public debate, and make collective action across the European Union and NATO more difficult.
In just over a year as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has drawn stark comparisons to his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Canada has since committed to bolstering hard military power and trade diversification in response to a complex geostrategic environment, a stark departure from the values-based and progressive policy that was a hallmark of the Trudeau era. In this article, Isabelle Zhu argues that despite the explicit differences across Trudeau’s approach and the current government’s on foreign policy, there is actually substantial continuity as it pertains to Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Under Carney, Canada can continue to pursue its defence and security objectives through investments in WPS principles.
This article will examine how Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, is responding to the surge in spoofed and scam phone calls that disproportionately target older Canadians, eroding trust in basic communications systems.
As NATO races to integrate commercial satellites into its collective defence architecture, can Canada afford to remain a passive consumer of allied space infrastructure? In this article, Kaya Dupuis argues that Canada must modernize its space governance framework, through updated export controls and a dedicated space security policy, to position its world-class space industry as a formal contributor to NATO security before the rules of governing commercial military space are written by others.
As geopolitical competition intensifies across the Arctic, Canada and NATO’s Arctic security strategy must extend beyond defence capabilities. This article explores how meaningful partnerships with Inuit and Indigenous communities strengthen Arctic sovereignty through Indigenous leadership, environmental stewardship, and generations of lived experience and permanent presence.
Ukrainian women-led organizations are building the evidentiary record for Russian wartime sexual violence, but are Canada and its NATO allies directing enough resources to the mechanisms that make accountability possible? In this article, Kaya Dupuis examines how organizations like La Strada-Ukraine and JurFem are documenting conflict-related sexual violence under active fire and what Canada’s commitments under NATO’s Women, Peace and Security agenda actually look like on the ground.
Neural interfaces are entering NATO’s own defence health systems, and existing cybersecurity frameworks weren’t built for them. This article lays out what NATO should do before the gap is exploited.