Policy Talks

Episode 32, Part I - Returning Foreign Fighters: Issue, Context and Policy Approaches

Guest: Phil Gurski, CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting

The Year Ahead 2018 Panel Discussion: Managing the Canada-U.S. relationship

Panelists: Jim Fergusson (University of Manitoba), and Christopher Sands (Johns Hopkins University)

About:  A year after the election of President Trump, it is now time to take stock of the Canada-US relationship. May 2018 marks 60 years of NORAD and potentially big changes to NORAD’s command and control framework not to mention the negotiations to finance an upgrade of the North Warning System (NWS). As well, the borders are beginning to harden – joint border projects are stagnating and neither state is equipped to deal with the (re)emerging threat of cruise missiles.

This panel was recorded at the Year Ahead: An International Security, Intelligence, and Defence Outlook for 2018. This is the annual flagship conference organized by the Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies at Carleton University.

The Year Ahead 2018 Panel Discussion: Missions, Missions and more Missions?

Panelists: BGen David Anderson (Canadian Armed Forces), Monica Toft (Tufts University) and Steve Saideman (Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University)

About: This panel presents the challenges for Canada’s ongoing missions and new missions, especially to Africa under a UN umbrella.

This panel was recorded at the Year Ahead: An International Security, Intelligence, and Defence Outlook for 2018. This is the annual flagship conference organized by the Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies at Carleton University.

The Year Ahead 2018 Panel Discussion: Hot Spots of the World and the Impact on Canada

Panelists: Ankit Panda (The Diplomat), Barak Barfi (The Washington Institute) and Milana Nikolko (Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University)

About: This panel examines the immediate threats for Canada and its allies in 2018. All of these issues have a concomitant defence role whether it is the coalition efforts in the Middle East or Canada’s support to the US pivot to Asia or NATO operations in the Eastern Europe to demonstrate support for Western allies.

This panel was recorded at the Year Ahead: An International Security, Intelligence, and Defence Outlook for 2018. This is the annual flagship conference organized by the Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies at Carleton University.

The Year Ahead 2018 Roundtable: An International Security, Intelligence, and Defence Outlook

Policy Talks staff Bridget Healy, Somran Roy and Mark Haichin discuss highlights of the The Year Ahead 2018 conference hosted by the Centre for Security, Intelligence and and Defence Studies at Carleton University. 

Episode 31: Climate Change and Arctic Sovereignty - Background, Challenges and Future Cooperation

Guest: Victoria Hermann, President and Managing Director of the Arctic Institute

Episode 30 - The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A View from the Ground

Guest: Usama Khan, the Director of Finance and the Deputy CEO of Islamic Relief Canada

Episode 29 - The Story Behind the Kurdish Independence Movement

Guest: Bessma Momani, Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo

Episode 28 - Data and Trends in International Development

Guest: Aniket Bhushan Lead Analyst and Principal Investigator, Canadian International Development Platform

Episode 27 - Brexit Negotiations: Challenges, Solutions and Moving Forward

Guest: Dr. Achim Hurrelmann, Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and as the Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University