Today we critique key decisions reached at the NATO Summit in Madrid, consider further casualties of the Ukraine war, highlight security dialogue as an Arctic imperative and end with some good news about Canada’s performance on COVID-19.
Tag Archives: arms control
Reflections on 2020 and a look ahead
The presidency of Joe Biden is an opportunity for Canada to support a new American foreign policy based on military restraint and responsible statecraft. With your help, we will do everything in our power to ensure that Canada embraces it.
New Peace Centre needed to balance defence industry-funded think tanks
We call on the Government of Canada to hold consultations with civil society on a new independent centre for international peace and security. It is urgently needed to counter think tank policy advice backed by defence industry funding.
Can a rules-based international order survive without nuclear arms control?
What can be more important for the “rules based international order” that Foreign Minister Freeland purports to champion than binding nuclear arms control agreements? Canadian leadership please!
NATO leaders should champion nuclear restraint and dialogue
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must join with other NATO leaders to ensure that the Trump–Putin Summit in Helsinki, Finland on 16 July is a successful one for arms control and global security.
Real opportunities exist for great power cooperation on missile defence
Canada, having declined participation in U.S. strategic ballistic missile defence, should seek opportunities to promote dialogue on moving from destabilizing great power competition to cooperation.