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C19(b) - Roundtable: Back to the Future: How the Past Can Inform Today’s Defence Policy Challenges

Date: Jun 5 | Heure: 01:45pm to 03:15pm | Salle:

Chair/Président/Présidente : Justin Massie (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Stéfanie von Hlatky (Queen's University)
Thomas Juneau (University of Ottawa)
Jean-Christophe Boucher (University of Calgary)
Stéphane Roussel (ENAP)
Joseph Jockel (St. Lawrence University)
David Haglund (Queen's University)
Kim Nossal (Queen's University)
Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard (Canadian Forces College)
Justin Massie (UQAM)

Abstract: Understanding the role that Canada and its allies must play to respond effectively to the current challenges posed by the challenge to the liberal international order by revisionist great powers is no easy task. Rather than resorting to foresight, this roundtable aims to analyze in depth major historical issues that have marked international relations in order to draw lessons to guide Canada’s defense policy in the current environment of geopolitical contestation. The roundtable covers several case studies, including American isolationism during the multipolar order of the interwar period, tensions between allies during the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq wars, the deterrent posture of Canada and NATO during the bipolar order of the Cold War, and NATO’s adaptation strategies in the face of post-Soviet Russia, West Germany’s integration into NATO as a model for today’s Ukraine, the interrelationships between the European and Indo-Pacific theaters during the Cold War, and Canada’s relations with the Trump administration during its first term in order to anticipate the challenges posed by a possible second term.

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