The Current Security Concerns
Chair: David Harris
Close to Home: Islamist Groups, Security, and the Media
Crystal Procyshen, McGill University
The Revolution in Terrorist Affairs
Major Dan D. Eustace, Canadian Forces College (CFC), Toronto
Defence Policy Making and the Use Force
Chair: Dr. Richard Gimblett
The Bisons Now Hunt the Indians
Victoria Edwards, Dalhousie University; Susan Haslip, Ottawa University
The Chatter Box: An Insider’s Account of the Irrelevance of Parliament in the Making of Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy
Roy Rempel
Canada-US Relations: Homeland Defence
Chair: Lieutenant-General Robert Morton (Retired)
Good Neighbours Made Good Fences: Canadian Continental Defence Planning and the 1954 Decision to Fund the Mid-Canada Early Warning Line
Major Kenn Rodzinyak, RMC
Territoriality and Homeland Defence: Implications for Canada
Ryerson Christie, York University
Impact of NORTHCOM on Canada
Philippe Lagassé, RMC
Canada and Peacekeeping
Chair: Colonel Doug Fraser (Retired)
Civil-Military Cooperation in Post-Cold War Interventions
Stacey Douglas, RMC
Not a ‘Lost Continent:’ Canadian Peacekeeping in Africa
Maria Mikhailitchenko, Queen’s University
‘Was it Good For You?’ Why Armies Engage in Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC)
Christopher Ankersen, London School of Economics
Canadian Defence Options
Chair: Lieutenant-General Richard Evraire (Retired)
Canada and Australia: Should their Armies Collaborate
Lieutenant-Colonel John Blaxland (Australian Army), Queen’s University
A Return to the Operational Art: The Canadian Forces Joint Operations Group
Captain Andrew B. Godefroy, RMC
Canadian Defence Commitments and Sovereignty
Chair: Brigadier-General Don Macnamara (Retired), Queen’s University
The Struggle to Define and Integrate Alliance Commitments and National Sovereignty in Canada: Lessons from Air Training Program Negotiations in the First and Second World Wars
Rachel L. Heide, Carleton University
Constat de Mutation au sein des Forces Canadiennes: Perte D’autonomie et de Souveraineté Nationale
Lieutenant-Colonel Rémi Landry (Retired), Université de Montréal
International Security: The Use of Force/Rules of War
Chair: Lieutenant-General Charles H. Belzile (Retired)
The Logic of War With Iraq: Revisiting Morris Janowitz’s ‘Absolute’ and ‘Pragmatic’ War Doctrines
Bob Bergen, University of Calgary
The Geneva Convention and Applicability to Modern Combat
Stephanie Carvin, CISS
International Security: Regional Issues
Chair: Mercedes Stephenson, University of Calgary
India’s Quest for Nuclear Weapons: Linkages of Collective Identity and National Security
Anil Varughese, University of Toronto
Post-Communist Eastern European Systems of Control Over the Military and Western Security Policies
Dragos Popa, Carleton University
Protracted Structural Conflict Transformation in the Americas: The Case of Nieuw Koffiekamp and the OAS
Christopher L. Yeomans, Université Laval
Issues Impacting Canadian Defence
Chair: Professor Charles Pentland, Queen’s University
To Act or Sustain: The Rationale of International Intervention in Civil Conflict
Lanthanide Dias Gunawardena, University of Calgary
Cyberconflicts and Rules of Engagement: A Perspective for Canadian Policy Orientations
Jean-Christophe Boucher and Hugo Loiseau, Université Laval