• Atteindre 2% du PIB d’ici 2029

    Atteindre 2% du PIB d’ici 2029

    Le Canada s’est engagé à dépenser l’équivalent de 2% de son produit intérieur brut (PIB) en dépenses militaires d’ici 2032. Cette date d’échéance est toutefois hautement spéculative puisqu’elle fut énoncée à la hâte en juillet dernier, en marge du sommet de l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) à Washington, sans plan précis pour l’atteindre.

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  • The Enablers: How Nuclear-Dependent States Hinder Nuclear Disarmament

    The Enablers: How Nuclear-Dependent States Hinder Nuclear Disarmament

    Debates on nuclear disarmament often focus on two groups: nuclear-armed states, whose arsenals pose existential risks, and the majority of states advocating for their abolition. Overlooked, however, is a crucial third group—nuclear-dependent states—whose policies significantly hinder progress toward a nuclear-free world. Nuclear-dependent states, including members of military alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),

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  • Crypto-Atlanticism: Policy Elites and Neutrality in Europe

    Crypto-Atlanticism: Policy Elites and Neutrality in Europe

    Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Sweden and Finland, long-standing militarily neutral and non-aligned states, swiftly applied for NATO membership. How can such a quick shift be understood? The research Catherine Hoeffler and I conducted within a larger project on policy elites’ preferences in European states on the eve of the war

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  • NATO’s Core Mission: The Collective Defence of What?

    NATO’s Core Mission: The Collective Defence of What?

    In invading Ukraine in both 2014 and 2022, Russia twice contested the now decades-long project that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began in the early 1990’s to construct a European security architecture grounded on shared values rather than historical claims, artificial lines, or spheres of influence.  The Alliance responded by taking steps to shore

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