Event Date: October 24, 2008
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004

A workshop chaired by Philippe Lagassé, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Co-sponsor: Queen’s University Centre for International Relations, and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.

This workshop, which will be in English, is free and open to public observers. For more information on the workshop, please contact Professor Lagassé at [email protected]. It is funded in part by a grant from the Security and Defence Forum, Department of National Defence.

This workshop will bring together junior security and defence academics to present and discuss papers outlining new perspectives and debates in Canadian international policy. The workshop will address a variety of questions related to contemporary security and defence issues, such as force structuring trends, defence and public opinion, military space policy, and the value of establishing a Canadian foreign intelligence service.