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Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security Volume 2: Historical and Legal Perspectives

 Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer

“The most urgent and important task we face is asserting Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic and northern regions, where the changing physical and geopolitical landscapes have created new threats and vulnerabilities to Canada and Canadians” Canada’s April 2024 defence policy update proclaimed. Offering readers with an overview of ideas about sovereignty, security, and international law in the Canadian Arctic since the end of the Second World War, this volume brings diverse research contributions into dialogue and seeks to lay a foundation for future research that helps students, scholars, and policy makers as they frame and shape historiographical and policy debates. 

Contributors: P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Kenneth Eyre, Peter Kikkert, Richard O. Mayne, Matthew Wiseman, Richard Goette, Daniel Heidt, Adam Lajeunesse, Ryan Dean, Shelagh Grant, Ted McDorman, Suzanne Lalonde, Frédéric Lasserre, Michael Byers, Andreas Østhagen, Rasmus Leander Nielsen, Kristin Bartenstein, Laure Gosselin

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The Price of Weakness

The Price of Weakness: Hydrocarbon Looting and the Erosion of the Colombian State
The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Antonio Quiñones and Pablo Policzer

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CANADA IN DANGEROUS TIMES

CANADA IN DANGEROUS TIMES: Strategic Outlook
Conference of Defence Associations Insitute

Rob Huebert with Philippe Lagassé

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Targeted Violence Across the Prairies

Targeted Violence Across the Prairies: The landscape of extremism, hate, and violent conspiracies throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba from 2019 to 2020
Organization for the Prevention of Violence

Michael King with John McCoy 

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Highlander's Lecture Series

The Highlander's Lecture Series is a bi-monthly public lecture event bringing relevent, topical, and at times controversial academic expertise to the community. The Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies is proud to ensure these lectures serve to educate, explore, and promote the importance of security and strategic thinking in today's world. 

  1. The War in Ukraine, Lessons Observed

    Dr. Alexander Hill, Dr. Terry Terriff

     

  2. Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Modernization of Nuclear Weapons and Thieir Delivery Systems

    Dr. Rob Huebert

  3. Russian embassies’ activities on Telegram in France and the Global South

    Dr. Jean-Christophe Boucher

  4. Cyber (in)security and national (in)security: persistent threats and Canada’s response

    Dr. Michael Nesbitt

  5. Intelligence and the Planning for and Execution of the Invasion of Normandy, 1944

    Dr. John Ferris

  1. Critical Minerals in the Age of Geopolitics and Geo-Economics

    Dr. Elizabeth Steyn

     

  2. Make Law Not War: Lessons from Canada’s Contribution to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference

    Dr. Sean Richmond, Visiting Scholar from Carleton University

  3. Lifecycle costing for defence purchases is nonsense, makes us dumb, and helps our enemies

    Dr. Ian Brodie

  4. The Opportunities and Challenges of Military AI, Lethal Autonomous Weapons, and Enhanced Soldiers

    Dr. Maureen Hiebert

  5. Conflicts and Coups: A Crisis of Insecurity in Twenty-first Century West Africa

    Dr. Timothy Stapleton

  6. Jewish and Oppositional Émigré Neuroscientists in the Armed Forces in North America during WWII

    Dr. Frank Stahnisch

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