HMAS Farncomb
After an intensive five-week deployment to the East Coast, HMAS Farncomb returned to her homeport of…
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In my recent discussion with the CASG team in the Department of Defence managing the build…
Read More »France And Germany Cooperate in Coronavirus Crisis
Paris – The French army has flown coronavirus patients to Germany in an NH90 Caïman helicopter,…
Read More »The European Union and the COVID-19 Crisis: Shaping Its Future Through Crisis Management
After initially responding slowly and in a haphazard manner, the EU has taken important steps to…
Read More »Is the Arctic still an after-thought in Canada?
On the day before it kicked off the campaign for the October 21st general election, the…
Read More »Inside USNS Mercy
Video package of the inside of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) March 28. Mercy…
Read More »Made In China: The Lessons Which the Liberal Democracies Should Learn from the Coronavirus
The new coronavirus, Covid-19, has spread to more than 130 countries—bringing social disruption, economic damage, sickness and death—largely…
Read More »The European Union and the Strategic Stockpiling Issue: The Coronavirus Crisis Exposes a Key Capability Gap
We have focused for some time on the importance for liberal democracies being much more cognizant…
Read More »European States Respond to the Coronavirus Crisis: Implications for the Future of Liberal Democracy?
Democracy has also been infected by the coronavirus. All normal, everyday features of a healthy democracy…
Read More »The European Union as An Alliance: Convergence or Disaggregation?
When I first talked with then Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in the mid-1990s about the future…
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