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

2026

July 2026 – Figaro Aurélus & Stephen Baranyi, Les groupes d’autodéfense armés : entre mécanismes alternatifs de sécurité et spectre d’insécurité permanente en Haïti

June 2026 – Peter Jones, Defining Antisemitism

April 2026 – Peter Jones, Canadian Defence: Time For a New Mindset

February 2026 – Faramarz Tamanna, Recalibrating Canada’s Trade and Economic Foreign Policy: A Three-Circle Framework in the Era of Tariff Wars

2025

October 2025 – Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., Creative Dissent: A Politician’s Struggle for Peace

September 2025 – Edited by Thomas Juneau and Bessma Momani, Rethinking Canada’s Middle East Engagement in the Age of Trump’s Return

September 2025 – Patrick Leblond and Mark Camilleri, Toward a Balanced and Inclusive Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement: Policy Recommendations for Data Governance and Innovation

August 2025 – Lilly Nicholls, How FIAP Broke Glass Ceilings in Canadian Diplomacy – And Should Go Further

June 2025 – Faramarz Tamanna, Afghanistan at a Crossroads: Policy Recommendations for Canada and the International Community

February 2025 – Patrick Leblond, Canada’s Sputnik Moment Requires a Moonshot Response

January 2025 – Mohammad Naser Timory, The First Year of Municipal Governance Under the De Facto Administration in Afghanistan

January 2025 – Irène CHIEWOUO KUETCHE, Femmes et gestion des crises en période de conflits armées : enjeux de l’implication des femmes dans la promotion de la paix et la sécurité au Cameroun

2024

November 2024 – Ernie Regehr, The Arctic and the East-West Nuclear Confrontation

2023

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

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

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

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

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

2022

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

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

2021

September 2021 – Christoph 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 2020 – Wesley Wark, Watching the Watchers: The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in Action

2019

December 2019 – Marion 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 2019 – Christoph Zürcher, 30 Years of Chinese Peacekeeping

2018

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

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

March 2018 – CIPS Conference Report, Disorder, Disruptions, Directions: Canada in the New International Security Environment

2017

May 2017 – Robert McRae, NATO Solidarity?

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

2016

October 2016 – Wesley Wark, Imitating 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 Pound, Doping in Sport: Creation of an International Policy Framework

June 2016 – Wesley Wark, CSE and Lawful Access after Snowden

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

2015

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

March 2015 – Wesley Wark, The Stalemate over National Security Accountability

January 2015 – Roland Paris, Evolution or Escalation? Canada’s Military Operation in Iraq

2014

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

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

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

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

2013

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

2012

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

September 2012 – Alexandra 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 2012 – Joshua Rovner, Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

2011

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

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

2010

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

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

October 2010 – Paul 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 2010 – Madelaine 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 2009 – M. Nazif Shahrani, Afghanistan’s Alternatives for Peace, Governance and Development: Transforming Subjects to Citizens & Rulers to Civil Servants

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

June 2009 – Ronald Neumann, Afghanistan: Looking Forward

June 2009 – Peter Jones, Engaging Iran

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

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

February 2009 – Roland Paris, Scaling Back Expectations in Afghanistan

2008

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

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