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Premier Partners: Canada, the United States and Arctic Security

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal , 2014

Both Canada and United States have developed extensive Arctic security policy frameworks that affirm the rising geopolitical profile of the region, reveal their assumptions and priorities, and indicate an evolution in how regional security is understood. Our analysis of strategic documents produced by both countries since 2006 reveals that the two countries’ evolving strategies and overarching national security objectives are well aligned, highlighting the advancement of security interests, pursuit of responsible stewardship, and strengthened international cooperation. Both countries stand to benefit from leveraging investments that enhance existing relationships, given their long history of cooperation and shared interests in continental defence and Arctic security.

Provide for the Common Defense: Updating the Canada-United States Security Relationship

2001

Time to revisit and upgrade the Canada-United States defense relationship. New threats: the Homeland Defense paradigm The Homeland Defense concept is that the United States needs to develop new defenses against threats to its own people and economy, in contradistinction to the need for force projection and pre-emptive strikes that placed the most likely conflicts and uses of U.S. military power outside our borders for most of the 20 th century. In the post Cold War, the U.S. military's advanced weaponry, tactics and sheer size are unmatched, and there are therefore few scenarios in which the United States is likely to face a large-scale attack or invasion. This has led U.S. defense planners to consider the greater likelihood of asymmetrical warfare-that is, an attack from a smaller force designed to hit at weak points in U.S. defenses and undermine American resolve. Such a "David against Goliath" situation could take the shape of a terrorist attack on civilians or infrastructure within the United States, or against a symbolic target linked to the United States. This kind of strike, as witnessed recently in Aden against the U.S.S. Cole, can have a psychological impact on Americans that goes far beyond its military value and can be mounted by a relatively tiny group of determined individuals with readily accessible technology.

The Canada–United States defence relationship: a partnership for the twenty-first century

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

The cessation of Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan in 2011 naturally prompted assessments of the effectiveness of the largest and most costly intervention, in terms of both lives and treasure, by the Canadian armed forces since the Korean War. Many commentators on Canada's contribution to the Afghan War attributed the Martin government's decision to dispatch combat troops to southern Afghanistan in 2005 primarily to the need to placate the United States following its decision two years earlier not to join the American-led coalition to topple the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq-an outlier, as it turned out, in Canada-United States relations. The same pressures are evident in the decisions by the Harper government to join the United States and other coalition partners in making war on the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014. That Canada feels a need to align itself with the foreign and military policy of the United States is a phenomenon that cries out for thorough analysis. The articles in this special issue focus broadly on the Canada-United States defence relationship, as it impacts both domestic and foreign policy in Canada. The issue was conceived in 2013 and led to a call for papers. On 5 and

Canadian American Solutions to the Questions of Arctic Security

The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare

On November 22, 2021, Dr. Robert Huebert, Professor at the University of Calgary, presented Canadian American Solutions to the Questions of Arctic Security at the 2021 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic, the changing global threat environment, and the US-Canada Arctic partnership.

Canada's Role in the North American Pillar of NATO

NATO's Place within the Security Architecture in Europe, 1991

Generally all the long term trends are driving Canada into a continental orientation in foreign and defence policy. There is no major geostrategic or technological trend in the world today running against this North American vector. It could be put off temporarily, but economically, technologically and geostrategically, close cooperation between the United States and Canada, even with an added hemispheric orientation, is in the future of this country in terms of security affairs. It will rival, if not surpass, traditional Canadian multilateralist predispositions to engage with European States as geopolitical counterweights.

The North American Arctic: Security Challenges and Opportunities

2020

The world has never been more geopolitically contested, and this has serious implications for both Canada and the US. On a large scale, there are many problems associated with this contestation which concern Canada, including hegemonic struggles, power transitions, and reactionary nationalism. The current globalist/ nationalist divide also has particular implications for the Arctic, with nationalists wanting to confirm ownership and control over decisionmaking, while globalists tend to want to ban activity in the Arctic in an attempt to protect the region. As a coastal state, Canada maintains a nationalist view of the Arctic, meaning that it is concerned with protecting its sovereignty in the region, while also combatting existential threats associated with climate change.

North American Cooperation in an Era of Homeland Security

Orbis, 2003

T he suggestion that Canada figures somehow as part of America's current security woes may surprise some. To Canadians, unused as they are to being objects of suspicion-or at least were, until their government aligned itself with those countries unwilling to support military action against Iraq absent UN Security Council approval-it may seem to put matters backwards. 1 It has long been an article of faith in Canada that the quality of American foreign policy-making leaves something to be desired. This has especially been so when Liberal governments in Ottawa have had to deal with Republican governments in Washington, for as Lawrence Martin observes, ''[t]here's an abiding problem in Canada-U.S. relations. Republicans and Liberals never seem to fit on the same dance floor. .. Canadians don't generally take well to red-meat Republicans.'' 2 And yet Canadians remain withal among the least anti-American people on earth. In a late 2002 global survey of attitudes toward America conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Canadian respondents went against the trend in most of the other 43 foreign countries ß 2003 Published by Elsevier Limited on behalf of Foreign Policy Research Institute. 1 Even in the Iraq case, Canadian policy was differentiated from that of countries such as France and Germany, in that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien stated that the U.S. had the ''right'' to take military action against Saddam Hussein's Iraq; moreover, the prime minister announced he had no intention of recalling Canadian military personnel who were serving as exchange officers with British and American units.

US-CANADA: POST SEPTEMBER 11th, TWO CLOSE NEIGHBORS APPEAR TO BE ON A PATH OF DIVERGENCE (2011)

2011

For over two centuries, Canada and the United States have becn constructing a unique partnership: along their 8,891 km-long common border, including 2,475 kilometers of the Alaskan-Canadian line, the two havc creatcd a largely peaceful coexistence. In the past, there werc notable exceptions: witncss the 1812 American invasion and the Canadian-British countcr-invasion' In thc 20tl' century, the relationship rvas solid through close cooperation and participation in the two World Wars and the Korca conflict, but not so solid when Canada offered refuge to thc US Vietnam draft dodgers. The events of 9/11, however, have led to a nuriber of stark global reconfigurations, pushingl American security concerns to utrnost priority and irnpacting cross-border flow of pcoplc, scrviccs and goods. Thcy have also highlighted some ol thc differences which exist between thc two neighboring nations.