CIPS Policy Reports & Briefs offer incisive analysis of current international policy issues, while CIPS Working Papers are research papers/works-in-progress on issues of concern to CIPS

2023

December 2023Pierre Van Wolleghem, Canada: A Global Leader for International Protection?

October 2023Tariq Rauf, Ending the Perpetual Menace of Nuclear Weapons

March 2023Scott Simon, The Indo-Pacific and Canada’s Entanglements across the Taiwan Strait

February 2023Rita Abrahamsen and Barbra Chimhandamba, Canada and the African Union: Towards A Shared Agenda

January 2023John Garrick and Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Australia and Canada in the Indo-Pacific: Middle Power Allies Should Coordinate Strategies

2022

November 2022Paul Meyer, Nuclear Threats and Canada’s Disarmament Diplomacy

August 2022Ulric Shannon, Competitive Expertise and Future Diplomacy: Subject-Matter Specialization in Generalist Foreign Ministries

2021

September 2021Christoph Zürcher, The Impact of Women’s Participation, Inclusion and Agency on Peace: A Systematic Review

May 2021 Srdjan Vucetic, More than a Spy Alliance? The Five Eyes Today

2020

April 2020Wesley Wark, Watching the Watchers: The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in Action

2019

December 2019Marion Laurence, What Are the Benefits and Pitfalls of Data-Driven Peacekeeping?

June 2019 Zhiduo Wang and Patrick Leblond, Canola Disputes in Canada-China Agricultural Trade: A Chinese Policy Perspective

January 2019Christoph Zürcher, 30 Years of Chinese Peacekeeping

2018

May 2018Gabrielle Bardall and Emily Myers, Violence against Women in Politics: A Barrier to Peace and Security

May 2018Daniel Livermore, Background Document to Blog Post – 1983 GAC Document Still Relevant Today: “The Crisis of Quality” Revisited

March 2018CIPS Conference ReportDisorder, Disruptions, Directions: Canada in the New International Security Environment

2017

May 2017Robert McRaeNATO Solidarity?

April 2017GSPIA students, A Comparative Analysis of Defence Review Papers: Australia, France, and the United Kingdom

2016

October 2016Wesley WarkImitating the Lion’s Roar? How Bill C-22 to Create a National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliament Stacks up against Its UK Model

July 2016 –  Dick PoundDoping in Sport: Creation of an International Policy Framework

June 2016Wesley Wark, CSE and Lawful Access after Snowden

June 2016Gabrielle Bardall, Canada’s Global Role in Promoting Inclusive Governance

2015

May 2015Scott Staring, Stephen Harper, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Fear

March 2015Wesley WarkThe Stalemate over National Security Accountability

January 2015Roland ParisEvolution or Escalation? Canada’s Military Operation in Iraq

2014

September 2014Richard Wyn Jones, Scottish Independence Referendum: How Did We Get Here?

June 2014 Gerd Schönwälder, Principles and Prejudice: Foreign Policy Under the Harper Government

May 2014Emmanuel Seitelbach and David Lord, Future Prospects for Afghanistan: Meeting Report

March 2014 Roland Paris, The Truth about Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan

2013

March 2013John Mundy, Iran’s Nuclear Gamble, Canada and Obama’s Second Term

2012

September 2012Alexandra Gheciu, In Search of Smart Defense in the Euro-Atlantic Area

September 2012Alexandra Gheciu, NATO in Libya: A Success That Raises Difficult Questions

July 2012 Rachel Kerr, Lost in Translation? The ICTY and the Legacy of War Crimes in the Western Balkans

June 2012Joshua Rovner, Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq

April 2012Wesley Wark, Electronic Communications Interception and Privacy: Can the Imperatives of Privacy and National Security Be Reconciled?

March 2012David Petrasek, Forward — to the Past? Re-thinking a Human Rights Museum

March 2012 Steve Coll, Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?

March 2012Peter Jones, Assessing Iran: The Arab Spring, The Nuclear Issue, and Canada’s Response

February 2012Trita Parsi, Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran and the 2009 Election Scandal

2011

November 2011Daryl Copeland, Science Diplomacy: What’s It All About?

March 2011Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Is NATO’s Counterinsurgency Strategy Working in Afghanistan? A Case Study

2010

November 2010Alex Neve, The View from Guantanamo Bay: Reflections on Omar Khadr’s Journey through Military Injustice

November 2010Ian Hurd, By the Book: Bush’s Memoirs and the Rule of Law

October 2010Paul Meyer, US Space Security Policy: Still in Orbit or Commencing Re-entry?

May 2010 –  Eugenia Zorbas, Canadian Policy Towards the Democratic Republic of Congo

January 2010Madelaine Drohan, Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Abroad

2009

November 2009 –  Michael J. Williams, (Un)Sustainable Peacebuilding: NATO’s Suitability for Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Multi-Actor Environments

October 2009 Stephen Saideman, Caveats, Values and the Future of NATO Peace Operations

August 2009M. Nazif Shahrani, Afghanistan’s Alternatives for Peace, Governance and Development: Transforming Subjects to Citizens & Rulers to Civil Servants

July 2009Gilles Dorronsoro, Running Out of Time: Arguments for a New Strategy in Afghanistan

June 2009Ronald Neumann, Afghanistan: Looking Forward

June 2009Peter Jones, Engaging Iran

February 2009Nipa Banerjee, Development for Afghans: Missing Measurements and Missed Opportunities

February 2009Daniel Livermore, Does Canada Need a Foreign Intelligence Agency?

February 2009Roland Paris, Scaling Back Expectations in Afghanistan

2008

November 2008Paul Robinson, Eyes on the Spies: Reforming Intelligence Oversight in Canada

April 2008Oskar N.T. Thoms, James Ron and Roland Paris, The Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms