Policy Options

The events of September 11, 2001 have caused many observers, Canadian and American alike, to re-exam- ine fundamental assumptions about defence policy. What does the United States expect of...

Dans un article portant sur l’élargissement de l’Alliance atlantique, Kim Richard Nossal affirmait qu’en politique étrangère canadienne, certaines choses valent mieux d’être passées sous silence (Les Cahiers d’histoire de...

Traditional Canadian anxiety about defence relations with the United States has been and remains charac- terized by relative clarity on the part of military leadership and defence department personnel...

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Canadian Forces (CF) face a range of challenges. Reduced defence spending, uncertainty regarding missions and tasks, and the lingering effect of...

For seven years Canadian policy on a limited ballistic missile defence for North America has not changed significantly. Following the Clinton administration’s acceptance of the notion that new, exotic...

European governments are nearly always hesitant and skeptical about incoming U.S. presidents. Perhaps it is simply a reflection of the considerable impact a change in the American administration has...

Gertrude Stein is famously remembered for saying of Oakland, California, ”œthere is no there there.” The same might be said of Canada’s strategic and defence interests in the Americas,...

Between April 1997 and December 2000, a series of bilateral and multilateral agreements between European Union member states pushed the process of European defence industry integration several steps for-...

From the dawn of the Space Age in the 1950s, the United States has used space as a vehicle for the pro- jection of American power. The means used...

Fifty years ago, the title to a Collier’s Magazine article read ”œMan will conquer space soon.” The article kicked off a series of Collier’s pieces that for the first...