Défense et intelligence

Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1
- 12 avril 2019
“We judge it very likely that Canadian voters will encounter some form of foreign cyber interference related to the 2019 federal election.” So says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, in a …
Par Paul Robinson
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 2
- 12 avril 2019
Part 1 of this blog dealt with the fairly generic alarms raised by the CSE regarding election tampering by foreign cyber threats. As far as the specific threat to Canada is concerned, CSE says the following:

« Since the 2015 …
Par Paul Robinson
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Time to Move Past the Errors of the War on Terror
- 10 décembre 2018
The aftermath of 9/11 produced many problems in many countries. Canadian police and security agencies made numerous mistakes as followers and participants in an ill-considered American-led War on Terror declared shortly after that tragedy. The evidence in two public inquiries …
Par Daniel Livermore
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Thinking with Maps: Geospatial Reasoning in War
- 31 octobre 2018
by Antoine Bousquet

Visual representations of space have long served a role in military affairs, assisting the strategic planning of campaigns, the design and placement of defensive fortifications, and navigation in unfamiliar territory. Yet it is only in the past …
Par CIPS
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UK Rendition and Torture: Lessons for Canada
- 18 juillet 2018
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has produced two reports on collusion in rendition (the legal term for shipping someone from one jurisdiction to another) and torture operations in the US-led War on Terror. They remind us in blunt …
Par Daniel Livermore
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In Defence of Liberal Internationalism?
- 15 juillet 2018
Alexandra Gheciu, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Associate Director of CIPS

At first glance, the recent — unprecedentedly acrimonious — G7 Summit had a silver lining: it seemed to demonstrate that …
Par Alexandra Gheciu
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Small States vs. Middle Powers — What’s the Difference?
- 15 juillet 2018
Njord Wegge, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

In early June 2018, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expressed in an interview with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that Norway, as a “middle-sized economy,” benefited from …
Par CIPS
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Russian Expulsions: “If there was ever a time for diplomacy, this is it”
- 5 avril 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman

About 50 years ago, Swedish writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo created addictive detective stories rooted in sociology. The reader knew who was murdered and often learned early on who did it. The mystery to be solved …
Par CIPS
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The West Gets Tough on Russia. What’s Next?
- 29 mars 2018
Canada has now joined an international effort to punish the Russians for their role in the use of a nerve agent to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England.

Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland …
Par Wesley Wark
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What Canada Should Do about Russia’s New Aggression
- 16 mars 2018
The crisis between Russia and the West over the poisoning of former Russia spy Sergei Skripal, daughter, Yulia, and a British police sergeant, Nick Bailey, has now moved to the global stage of the United Nations Security Council. The crisis, …
Par Wesley Wark
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From Spy Story to Global Crisis
- 16 mars 2018
The biggest crisis in relations between Russia and the West since Russian aggression in Crimea and Ukraine is now in full force. The enormity of the action that led to this crisis — the poisoning of a former Russian spy …
Par Wesley Wark
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Old-Style Poisoning Sets the Scene for New Cold War
- 14 mars 2018
An aging Russian general and former spy is found murdered in a London park, the victim of an assassin’s gun. That’s a story straight out of a John le Carré novel. An aging Russian colonel and former spy is discovered, …
Par Wesley Wark
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