csds bulletin
Newsletter of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies
6 January 2012

in this issue

• Cohen on Defence Support of Humanitarian Operations
• Kopstein on Anti-Jewish Pogroms
• 2012 World Issues Annual Conference

• 2012 Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security
• NSPS Conference on Defence Procurement

• Call for Papers - 7th Annual Political Science Graduate Symposium
• 10th Annual CIPSS Graduate Conference
• 2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

Cohen on Defence Support of Humanitarian Operations

Defence Support of Humanitarian Operations: Practice before Theory

Richard Cohen
President, RSC Strategic Connections and
Former Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Defence

In this talk, Richard Cohen considers how Canadian government policy on Canada’s role in international disaster relief changed in light of the experiences of the Haiti earthquake of 2010. With clear implications for policymakers, Cohen posits that this experience is an example of how realities on the ground sometimes drive policy rather than vice versa.

Richard Cohen is President of RSC Strategic Connections. He is also a Senior Associate in the Ottawa Office of Hill and Knowlton and a Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, the Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, and the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, at Carleton University. Cohen is also a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). A graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, and Imperial College, London, where he studied under an Earl of Athlone Fellowship, Cohen has served in the Canadian Army as an infantry and parachute officer in the PPCLI and the Canadian Airborne Regiment. In 1973, he transferred to the British Army where he served in the Light Infantry, the Brigade of Gurkhas and in a wide variety of operational command and staff appointments around the world. In 2007, he joined the office of the Minister of National Defence, Peter MacKay, as the Minister’s Senior Defence Advisor. He returned to the private sector in 2011.

Thursday, 12 January 2012
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Senate Boardroom, Robertson Hall 608
Carleton University

Metered public parking is available in Parking Garage P9, adjacent to Robertson Hall.

Light sandwich lunch will be provided.
Registration is requested by Monday, 9 January 2012.

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Kopstein on Anti-Jewish Pogroms

Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Occupied Poland and Ukraine

Jeffrey Kopstein
University of Toronto

Why do pogroms occur in some localities but not in others? This question has long puzzled scholars. With a focus on the wave of pogroms in Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine that occurred in the first weeks after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Professor Kopstein shows that pogroms are only weakly correlated with Polish and Ukrainian nationalism and Jewish support for communism. Instead what matters most for the occurrence of pogroms are pre-existing political and demographic tensions, especially Jewish support for ethnic parties. After discussing these conditions, Professor Kopstein will note what this conclusion means for Polish and Ukrainian wartime culpability and the broader conditions under which pogroms are likely to occur.

Jeffrey Kopstein Kopstein is Professor of Political Science and Acting Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published three books and more than forty peer reviewed articles on comparative and European politics and history. His forthcoming book is Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms as Prelude to the Holocaust.

Thursday, 19 January 2012
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Senate Boardroom, Robertson Hall 608
Carleton University

Metered public parking is available in Parking Garage P9, adjacent to Robertson Hall.

Light sandwich lunch will be provided.
Registration is requested by Monday, 16 January 2012.

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2012 World Issues Annual Conference

Center for Security and Defence Studies
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs

Call for Workshop Presenters
For the
2012 World Issues Annual Conference

Date: February 23, 2012
Location: Tory Blg, Loeb Blg, Southam Hall

Center for Security and Defence Studies, NPSIA, will host the 2012 World Issues Annual Conference and invites interested Graduate Students to submit a proposal for workshop presentations in English or French. Workshops are presented to senior high school students from the local Ottawa and Gatineau area schools. An honorarium will be provided to each presenter included in the conference. Lunch and full audio/visual support will be provided to all presenters.

Submitting a proposal: Choose your area of interest or a research topic that is related to: national/international security and defence, human security and development, international trade policy, institutions and global governance, intelligence and infrastructure protection policy, global political economy or conflict analysis and conflict resolution.

Write a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) outlining the topic and key points for the presentation and send to Cathleen Schmidt, CSDS, no later than January 13, 2012.

Please address your questions to: Cathleen Schmidt, CSDS Administrator, 613-520-2600, X6671 or email above.

Below find a partial list of some topics to consider:

Afghanistan’s future
Arab Spring
Asbestos
Canada-US relations
Canadian Foreign Policy
Child Labour
Child Soldiers
Climate Change
Conflict/war zones
Disarmament
Disaster Relief planning for Japan
Drug trade
Energy policy
European Union
Environment and Security
Global Political Economy
Global warming
Greece and the European economy
Green Economics
Haiti
Health policy
Immigration policy
Mexico and impact of narcotics trade
Mining policies
Natural resources and conflicts
North Korea and Kim Jong II
Organized crime and transnational crime
Pakistan
Palestine/Israel as two states
Pandemics and epidemics
Poverty
R2P [Responsibility to Protect]
Russia and Putin
Sex trade slavery
Sierra Leone
South America (development, health)
South Sudan
Terrorism
Treatment of Women
US foreign policy
US in Iraq, Afghanistan
Water resources, pollution and shortage

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2012 Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security

From: CDA Institute <director@cda-cdai.ca>
Subject: 2012 Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security, 23-24 February

The Conference of Defence Associoations (CDA) and the CDA Institute are pleased to announce that registration for the 2012 Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security is now open!

23-24 February 2012
Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Canada

Click here for more information on registration, or call (613) 236-9903.

Keynote speakers include:

The Right Honorable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada (invited)
The Honorable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence (invited)
General Walter Natynczyk, Chief of the Defence Staff
General Sir David Richards, UK Chief of Defence Staff
General James Mattis, Commander US Central Command
Dr. Uzi Arad, former Israeli National Security Advisor
Ray Mabus, US Secretary of the Navy
Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, commander NATO forces in Libya

Panels and speakers include:

Asia-Pacific security concerns
Rear-Admiral (ret'd) Tyrone Pile, former commander, Maritime Forces Pacific
Dr. Jim Boutilier, Maritime Forces Pacific
Dr. John Blaxland, Australian National University
Captain(N) Raul (Pete) Pedrozo, US Naval War College

Fragile, failing and failed states in the Arc of Instability
Ferry de Kerckhove, former Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, CDA Institute
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald, Cranfield University
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Dr. Fawaz A. Gerges, London School of Economics

Energy security
Colin Robertson, CDA Institute
David Collyer, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
David McLaughlin, National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy
Jeffrey Schott, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Canadian Forces environmental updates
Lieutenant-General (ret'd) Michel Maisonneuve, CDA Institute
Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison, Commander, Royal Canadian Navy
Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin, Commander, Canadian Army
Lieutenant-General André Deschamps, Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force

Canadian Forces and operations
Lieutenant-General (ret'd) Michel Gauthier, CDA Institute
Lieutenant-General Stuart Beare, Commander, Canadian Expeditionary Force Command
Lieutenant-General Walter Semianiw, Commander, Canada Command

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NSPS Conference on Defence Procurement

From: Heather Salsbury <salsburh@queensu.ca>
Subject: NSPS Conference in February 2012 - Queen's University

Good afternoon:

On behalf of Ugurhan Berkok, Chair of Defence Management Studies at Queen?s University, I would like to draw to your attention our upcoming conference entitled ?New Paradigms for Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy?? being held on 27 February 2012 in Kingston. The conference aims at exploring whether a new Canadian industrial policy is in the works, feasible, and desirable in light of the NSPS. For more information please visit our web pages at www.queensu.ca/dms/Ship2012/home2012.htm.

Attached please find the conference poster in English and French ?could we please impose upon you to circulate and/or post these on our behalf.

Many thanks, and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Heather Salsbury
Rm 417 - Defence Management Studies
School of Policy Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3M6
salsburh@queensu.ca
phone/ext.: 613-53(3-6483)

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Call for Papers - 7th Annual Political Science Graduate Symposium

From: Shelly Whitman <cfpsddir@dal.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers: 7th Annual Graduate Symposium

The Dalhousie Political Science Graduate Student Society and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Present
The 7th Annual Political Science Graduate Symposium, March 8th ? 9th, 2012
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Rise of the Rest? Opportunities and Implications
Call for Papers

There is a growing ?conventional wisdom? that the United States is in decline and that we are entering a ?post-American? world, characterized by a ?rise of the rest?. The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are said to be the emerging centers of power in the 21st century. Is power really moving from West to East? Is the United States in decline? Will the rapid rise of the rest continue? Most importantly, what are the security and defence implications of this possible change in the global balance of power, particularly for Canada?

With this theme in mind, the Symposium Committee welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplines on the following themes:
- American power in the 21st Century
- Technology of Security and Defence (Drones, Cyber Warfare, Social Media)
- WMD Proliferation and Strategic Stability
- Environmental Security and Resource Scarcity (Arctic, Water, Oil, etc.)
- Canada in the 21st Century
- ?BRIC? Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
- Institutional Roles of IGOs, NGOs, and Regional Organizations (UN, NATO, ASEAN, NORAD, EU, etc.)

Other topics with a focus on defence and security will be considered. Please send a 250-300 word abstract and a short bio to: gradsym@dal.ca

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012.

Successful applicants will be notified by January 27th, 2012. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies in August 2012.

The Symposium emphasizes the debate and question elements of the panel presentations and so presentations are limited to 10 minutes. Limited travel subsidies may be available for presenters. For more information, please visit: http://centreforforeignpolicystudies.dal.ca/gradsymposium2012.php or send an email to: gradsym@dal.ca. 

Shannon Langton
Centre for Foreign Policy Studies
Dalhousie University
6299 South St, PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
T: 902.494.3769 F: 902.494.3825
www.cfps.dal.ca

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10th Annual CIPSS Graduate Conference

From:Jeremie Cornut <jeremiecornut@hotmail.com>
Subject: Intervention et résolution de conflits - Appel à communications - 10ème colloque étudiant du CEPSI

Call for Papers

10th Annual CIPSS Graduate Conference

March 16th 2012
Montreal, Québec

Intervention and conflict resolution in the 21st century
Evolution, challenge and future.

The 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) will be held on March 16th 2012. A member of the Security Defense Forum, CIPSS is an inter-university collaboration between Université de Montréal and McGill University dedicated to the promotion of security and strategic studies.

We invite graduate students to submit proposals on security issues, defined in a broad sense. Here are a few topics of interest:

· Strategic Studies
· Military History
· Civil Wars
· Disarmament
· Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
· Peace Operations
· Conflict resolution
· Civil-Military Relations
· Security and Defense Policies
· International interventions

The primary goal of this conference is to allow graduate students to present their research, while fostering exchanges amongst students of various North American institutions. The best paper presented at the Conference will be awarded a prize. Papers can be presented in either English or French. Some travel grants will be given for travels inside Canada.

Proposals should not exceed 200 words. Please include a short biography. Submit proposals at cepsi.cipss@gmail.com. More Information about the CIPSS can be found at http://www.cepsi.umontreal.ca/defaulten.aspx.

Deadline for proposals: January 27th, 2012

After the selection of participants, the final and complete version of the papers has to be sent to the CIPSS before March 2nd.

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2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

From: Andrew Grant <andrew.grant@queensu.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers for 2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

ISA Canada is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2012 ISA Canada Student Paper Prize.

Value: $300.00

According to the terms of reference adopted by the membership of ISA Canada in March 2011, the ISA Canada Student Paper Prize is:

•     Open to all PhD students who are members of ISA and ISA-Canada
•     Open to PhD students in any of the disciplines that fall under the aegis of International Studies
•     To be awarded for a previously unpublished, single authored paper delivered at the ISA meeting in that given year.
•     PhD dissertation chapters will be accepted if they are previously unpublished.
•     To be awarded to a paper written in either French or English.
•     To be awarded at the reception held by ISA-Canada at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association.
•     Papers must be received by the prize jury three weeks in advance of the ISA meeting.

In addition to the criteria above:

•     Submissions are to be no longer than 8000 words
•     Submissions will be evaluated for: originality, strength, clarity of argument, and contribution to the appropriate literature.
•     Submissions are due Monday, March 12, 2012.
•     Submissions will be made to members of the jury. Jury members will be announced by January 15, 2012.

Dr. J. Andrew Grant, Queen's University
Secretary/Sécrétaire, ISA-Canada
andrew.grant@queensu.ca

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