NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART I
This blog, the first in a two-part series, cuts through some of the traditional thinking on the Korean crisis.
Canada
LAW: NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART II
This second blog on the situation in and around Korea, and its implications for international
security, puts forward ideas on how the US and Canada and their Allies can rise to this challenge.
Defence Spending Challenges
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President has put a new emphasis on a series
of issues in the area of defence spending. This is a revised version of an earlier post on this subject.
The Malian Crisis: a security sector perspective
This three-part blog contribution provides a security sector perspective on the ongoing crisis in Mali and focuses on the stabilization and security sector reform challenges that need to be addressed in this context.
The Malian Crisis: chaos in the making
This first blog in a first-part series on Mali provides background on the country and how its present crisis emerged.
The Malian Crisis: the stumbling stabilization effort
This second blog in the Mali series discusses the national, regional, European and international responses to the crisis in the country, and the peace process that resulted in an agreement in 2015.
The Malian Crisis: thinking more broadly about the security sector agenda
This third blog in the Mali series discusses the current situation in the country and the implications for security sector governance that stem from the national, regional, EU and UN efforts to stabilize the country.
Canada in Africa: integrating SSR into peace and stabilization strategies
This blog looks at the current Canadian Government’s approach to engagement in Africa. It is a follow-on to the CSG blog series that explores the security sector reform (SSR) dimension of Canada’s planned re-engagement with peacekeeping and peace operations. This four-part series focuses on the main options being speculated upon for troop deployment: Mali, the Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Trumping the Donald
This blog discusses the reasons for Donald Trump’s mercurial rise and highlights some of the more important inanities and contradictions in his proposals.
Unpublished Material
The Case for Giving NATO an American Secretary General Revisited Follow-up to 1995 op.ed. piece in IHT, written circa 2010 Security Sector Training and Education for the Second Reform Decade Paper written in 2004 Governance and Security Sector Reform in the Second Reform Decade Speaking notes for Intervention at the panel on Governance, Conference … [Read more…]