Reading Time: 2 minutes Disponible en français. On 1 July 2002, a group of countries around the world established the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) as a forum to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the world’s most serious crimes. The Rome Statute of the… Read More ›
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Executive Summary – The Growing Complexity of Space: Implications for Security and Stability
Reading Time: 2 minutes Disponible en français. Governments dominated the space age that emerged during the Cold War, primarily those of the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union. They largely treated the domain with military restraint given both the fragility of the space environment… Read More ›
Executive Summary – The NATO 2030 Initiative: Overview and Implications for Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minute Disponible en français. In June 2020, in response to the evolving international security environment and questions about its relevance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched the NATO 2030 initiative. The COVID‑19 pandemic, the growing prevalence of disinformation, Russia’s military… Read More ›
The Rise and Fall of Arms Control?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (Disponible en français : Contrôle des armements : après l’essor, le déclin?) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, superpower tensions began to fade. As a result, it became possible to negotiate complex agreements on conventional arms and weapons of… Read More ›
Executive Summary – The World Trade Organization: Selected Challenges and Canada’s Priorities
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Disponible en français : Résumé – Organisation mondiale du commerce : Défis choisis et priorités du Canada) The World Trade Organization (WTO) is currently facing challenges relating to its executive, legislative, monitoring and adjudicative functions. As a founding member of… Read More ›
Resilience and Strain: Canada–U.S. Relations in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Disponible en français : Résilience et tensions : les relations entre le Canada et les États-Unis en 2020) In an address to the Canadian Parliament on 11 June 1947, U.S. President Harry Truman observed that the U.S. and Canada had… Read More ›
Canada and NATO – 70 Years of Involvement
Reading Time: 6 minutes (Disponible en français : Le Canada et l’OTAN – 70 ans de participation) On 30 April 1949, the Government of Canada ratified the North Atlantic Treaty, becoming one of the 12 founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A political,… Read More ›
NATO in a New Era: Selected Outcomes from the 2018 NATO Brussels Summit
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Disponible en français : Une nouvelle ère pour l’OTAN : certains résultats du Sommet de l’OTAN de 2018 à Bruxelles) Since 1957, when the first summit was held in Paris, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) summits have been a… Read More ›
Canada’s Relationship with the United States: Living with the Giant
Reading Time: 4 minutes Note: This publication was updated in February, 2020: Resilience and Strain: Canada–U.S. Relations in 2020 (Disponible en français : La relation canado-américaine : vivre à l’ombre d’un géant) As U.S. President John F. Kennedy said about the relationship between Canada… Read More ›