Canada''s National Security in the Post-9/11 World - Strategy, Interests, and Threats

This timely exploration and re-assessment of Canada's approach to strategic affairs offers a diverse set of nuanced, sometimes controversial, and always insightful perspectives on the most pressing security challenges that Canada currently faces. Bringing together noted experts on these issues - including a Canadian Senator, a past Minister of National Defence, former high-level military officers, and top scholars - this collection provides powerful ideas and guidance for the difficult task of formulating an overarching national security strategy."--pub. desc.

List of contents

Contents

 

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction 

David S. McDonough

Part One: A Framework for National Security

1: The Need for a Canadian Grand Strategy

Charles F. Doran and David Pratt

2: Canada’s National and International Security Interests

Don Macnamara

3: The Balance of Freedoms: A Fresh Strategic Framework

Hugh D. Segal

Part Two: The Home Front

4: Defence Procurement and Industry

Craig Stone

5: Homeland Security and Defence in the Post-9/11 Era

Elinor Sloan

6: Continental Defence: “Like farmers whose lands have a common concession line”

Joseph T. Jockel and Joel J. Sokolsky

Part Three: Regions and Players of Interest

7: NATO and the EU: Canada’s Security Interests in Europe and Beyond

Alexander Moens

8: Shift to the Pacific: Canada’s Security Interests and Maritime

Strategy in East Asia

Thomas Adams

9: South Asia: Growing Risks, Growing Importance and Canada’s

Evolving Role

Douglas Goold

Part Four: Expeditionary Missions and the Future of the CF

10: From Paardeberg to Panjwai: Canadian National Interests in

Expeditionary Operations

David J. Bercuson and J. L. Granatstein

11: Stabilization Operations in Afghanistan and in the Future:

The Need for a Strategic Canadian Approach

Ann M. Fitz-Gerald

Part Five: Issues, Risks and Threats

12: Canada’s Defence and Security Policies after 2011: Missions, Means and Money

Douglas L. Bland and Brian MacDonald

13: WMD Proliferation, Missile Defence and Outer Space: A Canadian Perspective

James Fergusson and David S. McDonough

14: Counter-Capability and Counter-Motivation: A Counterterrorism Strategy for Canada

Alex S. Wilner

Conclusion

David S. McDonough

About the author

Edited by David S. McDonough

Product details

• Authors: David McDonough, University of Toronto Press
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9781442641358
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4135-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education