Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Joakim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenberg, and Stéfanie von Hlatky
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse ...

Postcards from the Western Front

By Mark Connelly
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in ...

The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces

Edited by Grazia Scoppio & Sara Greco
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

While countries throughout the world rely on immigrants to support their populations and economies, access to the military is limited, denied to those who have not yet acquired citizenship.

Precluding ...

War and Remembrance

Edited by Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, and Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus on memory, War and Remembrance provides new viewpoints in the field of war representation.

Bringing an interdisciplinary ...

The Ones We Let Down

By Charlotte Duval-Lantoine
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

In 2021, a sexual misconduct scandal struck the Canadian military, leading to a profound crisis in leadership. While some more recent allegations came to light before the #MeToo movement, these latest ...

Canada as Statebuilder?

By Laura Grant & Benjamin Zyla
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects ...

Women, Peace, and Security

Edited by Caroline Leprince & Cassandra Steer
Preface by Stéfanie von Hlatky
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict ...

Why We Fight

Edited by Robert C. Engen, H. Christian Breede, and Allan English
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people ...

Outsourcing Control

By Katherine H. Tennis
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

When the European Union signed an agreement with Turkey in 2016 to end irregular migration from Syria using extraterritorial measures, the media framed it as a radical new low in migrant protection. Similarly, ...

Coping with Geopolitical Decline

Edited by Frédéric Mérand
Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances ...