Where the Canadian Conservative Leadership Candidates Stand on Defence
2 February 2017 – Toronto, CA by Alim Jiwa As the world continues to be reshaped on an almost daily basis in these early days of the Trump administration, The…
Book Watch: Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
Review by Chris Murray 24 January 2017 – London, UK Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community By Max Bergholz; Cornell University Press, 2016.…
Trudeau’s Foreign Affairs Shuffle Aims at Both Putin and Trump
18 January 2017 – Toronto, CA by Alim Jiwa After the election of Donald Trump to the White House, the Trudeau government resolved to ensure that the responsibility for managing…
Book Watch: Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism
Review by John A. Pennell 13 January 2017 – Kyiv, Ukraine Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism (Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, USA, 2016) by…
Book Watch: The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War
Review by John A. Pennell 11 January 2017 – Kyiv, Ukraine The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War (PenguinRandomHouse: New York, NY, USA, 2016) by Arkady Ostrovsky.…
Book Watch: Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada
Review by Chris Murray 9 January 2017 – London, UK Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada By Kim Richard Nossal; Dundurn, 2016. CDN $19.99 ISBN-10: 1459736753 ISBN-13: 978-1459736757 It…
Shift in Russia’s South Asia Policy: Risks and Implications
23 December 2016 – Jaipur, India by Professor B.M. Jain Russia’s foreign policy under the Putin leadership has undergone a major transformation since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in…
All Eyes on Al-Bab
22 December 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb As the fighting in Aleppo dwindled down, the next chapter of the Syrian conflict focused on the small city of al-Bab…
Turkey’s Troublesome Times Continuing with No End in Sight
20 December 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray It feels like only moments ago that Defence Report was analysing the attempted coup in Turkey. July does not feel a…
Featured Analysis – DAESH in the Digital Age: Online Extremism and the New Terror
12 December 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb For some time many politicians and analysts have been theorizing of what is the next step for the Islamic State of…