csds bulletin
newsletter of the centre for security and defence studies
15 April 2011

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centre news and events

general announcements
opportunities



centre news and events
New Audio Podcasts
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Audio recordings of recent CSDS Speakers -- Peter Jones on Iran, and Pierre Razoux on the political crisis in the Middle East and North Africa -- are now available for online listening or download, directly from the CSDS events calendar page at http://www.carleton.ca/csds/events.html.

general announcements

Please note that travel funding support is available to NPSIA graduate students who wish to participate formally in any of the conferences listed below. For more information, contact Prof. David Mendeloff or visit: www.carleton.ca/csds/funding.html

CDA Roundtable Announcement: Strategic Vision and Franco-British Defence Cooperation - Rear Admiral Ausseur
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From: Executive Director director@cda-cdai.ca
Subject: Roundtable Announcement: Strategic Vision and Franco-British Defence Cooperation - Rear Admiral Ausseur

The Conference of Defence Associations Institute is pleased to announce the next roundtable in its series of events on important security and defence issues.

This roundtable discussion will be a discussion on Strategic Vision and Franco-British Defence Cooperation by Rear Admiral Ausseur, the Head of the “organisation internationale” division at the French Joint Staff. This presentation will be conducted in English. A biography can be found below.

Date: Thursday April 21, 2011
Time: 1030-1230hours
Place: Fleishman-Hillard, 100 Queen Street-13th floor, Ottawa (venue provided courtesy of Fleishman-Hillard, through LGen (Ret'd) Richard Evraire, Chairman CDA)

The session will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule (not for attribution).

An RSVP is absolutely required, and space is expected to be at a premium. To reserve a spot, please contact projectofficer@cda-cdai.ca or phone (613) 236-9903.

Rear Admiral Pascal Ausseur

After Graduating from the Naval Academy in 1984, Rear Admiral Pascal Ausseur sailed for 15 years on several war ships. In particular, he served as principal warfare officer and deputy commanding officer on frigates, before being appointed navigation officer onboard the aircraft carrier Foch.

He was appointed as commanding officer three times: the training ship « Jaguar » in 1987, frigate « Commandant L’Herminier » from 1994 to 1995 and the air defence destroyer « Jean Bart » from 2004 to 2006.

He took part to numerous operations in the Gulf of Guinea, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, to several deployments of the carrier group and to the operation “Baliste” during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006. In 1995, he was also involved in IFOR, NATO force in charge of the application of the Dayton Agreements in former Yugoslavia.

Beside this rich operational career, he worked for the human resources of the French Navy (he conducts studies on officers) and at the French Joint staff where he devoted his time to the development of the relations between France and NATO.

From 2007 to 2010, he was employed as the head of the international division “Western World and Asia” at the Private Office of the Minister of Defense.

Graduated from College Interarmées de Défense (Joint Staff College), he studies at the 56th session of Centre des Hautes Etudes Militaires and at the 59th session de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationales.

Head of the “organisation internationale” division at the French Joint Staff, he was promoted to Rear Admiral on the 1 May 2010.

Chevalier de la légion d’honneur, officier de l’ordre national du mérite, he is awarded with la croix de la valeur militaire.

Rear Admiral Pascal Ausseur is married and has 4 children
KCIS 2011 Conference:"The Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Resources and Security" 13-15 June 2011
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From:KCIS kcis@queensu.ca
Subject: KCIS 2011 Conference: "The Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Resources and Security" 13-15 June 2011

For most of their history, the states of northern Eurasia and North America have directed their foreign policies anywhere but northward. In the early twenty-first century, however, the emergent forces of globalization and climate change have turned a vast, inhospitable region from a neglected back yard to an international arena where the evident benefits of cooperation must compete in the minds of governments with traditional tendencies toward rivalry and the consequent risk of intensified conflict. Rapid physical changes in the region have opened up the prospects of new shipping routes, access to mineral resources and fisheries, opportunities for scientific research, and the accompanying risks to a fragile environment, to aboriginal ways of life, and to national and international security.

Four expert panels will address the following themes:
• Conflict and Cooperation: The Geo-politics of the Arctic
• Sovereignty: Borders and Security
• The Rush for Resources: Costs and Benefits
• Stepping into the Future

REGISTRATION

Registration is now open. Early bird registration is $300.00(+tax) until 20 May 2011, and $350.00(+tax) after. Registration covers the Meet and Greet reception Monday evening, all meals, conference sessions, and the conference dinner - a cruise of the 1000 Islands and Kingston's magnificent waterfront on Tuesday evening. Please note that registration fees are non-refundable. Registration with payment must be made using our online system. Select this link to register now: http://www.queensu.ca/cir/?q=KCIS/Registration

CONFERENCE VENUE & ACCOMMODATIONS

The conference venue is the Residence Inn by Marriott Kingston Water’s Edge. We have secured a preferential room rate of $169.00 per night (a government rate is applicable applied at check-in with valid identification). The deadline to secure a room at this preferred rate is 20 May 2011.

To book your room online, select the following link – http://www.queensu.ca/cir/?q=KCIS/Accommodations – to access the online reserved conference block. To make your reservation by telephone, call 1-800-331-3131 or 613-544-4888 and specify “KCIC” to the reservation desk.

PROGRAM

Please visit the KCIS website http://www.queensu.ca/cir/KCIS for the programme and full conference information. For further information, or if you have any questions, please contact the conference coordinators by telephone at 613-533-2381/613-533-6483 or by email at kcis@queensu.ca. We are sure you will enjoy this opportunity to visit Kingston in early summer and look forward to welcoming you to the conference.

Organized by:
Queen’s Centre for International Relations
Defence Management Studies (Queen’s University)
Land Force Doctrine and Training System, Canadian Forces
the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College.

opportunities

Please note that travel funding support is available to NPSIA graduate students who wish to participate formally in any of the conferences listed below. For more information, contact Prof. David Mendeloff or visit: www.carleton.ca/csds/funding.html

CDA Institute’s 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Canada’s Security Interests
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From: Executive Director director@cda-cdai.ca
Subject: Conference of Defence Associations Institute 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium - Canada’s Security Interests

Currie Hall
Royal Military College of Canada
Kingston, Ontario
October 27-28, 2011

The CDA Institute’s 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium Canada’s Security Interests will be held on October 27-28, 2011, and is currently accepting papers from Masters and Doctoral students.

The symposium is conducted in collaboration with the Royal Military College of Canada, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affair’s Institute, Chair of Defence Studies Queen’s University and Queen’s Centre for International Relations.

The acceptable range of presentation topics include contemporary and historical analyses of: national security and defence; insurgency and counter-insurgency; conventional warfare; campaign planning; Canadian military campaigns and operations; security and defence alliances, peace enforcement, and peace support operations; conflict resolution; security and defence related economics; intra-state conflict issues; and terrorism and other non-traditional threats to security.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three papers. The winning paper will be awarded $3,000, and the second and third place prizes are valued at $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.

The deadline for submissions is September 23, 2011.

For more information, please contact the CDA Institute’s Project Officer at projectofficer@cda-cdai.ca / (613) 236-9903 or visit http://cda-cdai.ca/cdai/
Canadian Defence Academy Symposium on Military Scholarship
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From: Lawrence McDonough mcdonough-l@rmc.ca
Subject: CDA Symposium on Military Scholarship

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to inform you of a Canadian Defence Academy sponsored Symposium on Military Scholarship and Professional Education to be held on 6-7 June, 2011 in downtown Ottawa. The Call for Papers gives more detail.

You are being contacted because you have a direct interest in both Military Scholarship and Defence Education and the linkages both weak and strong that connect the two. We hope that you will have time to participate actively by presenting a paper or discussing a paper. You may also wish to participate from the floor through questions, challenges and conversation.

We hope that you will extend this call for papers to potentially interested colleagues both locally and internationally.

All information can be found at the following sites:

http://www.cda.forces.gc.ca/new-nou/reg-eng.asp

http://www.cda.forces.gc.ca/new-nou/symposium-eng.asp

The deadline for registrations is 15 April 2011, at 1600 hrs.

Sincerely,

Professor Lawrence McDonough
Royal Military College of Canada
International Policy Summer Institute
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From: James Goldgeier jim.goldgeier@gmail.com
Subject: New International Policy Summer Institute

Dear Colleagues,

As a Principal of the Bridging the Gap Project, I am pleased to announce the inaugural International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI), to be held June 13-17, 2011, in Washington DC.

IPSI is a weeklong professional development program for professors (all ranks) and post-docs in the fields of international relations and comparative politics who seek to build the tools and networks to produce and disseminate policy-relevant academic research. The Institute will deliver an intensive curriculum designed to teach participants how to develop and articulate their research for a policy audience, what policy-makers are looking for when they look to IR scholarship, whom to target when sharing research, and which tools and avenues of dissemination are appropriate. IPSI will also provide a forum for scholars to develop professional networks with their colleagues in the discipline and with the broader policy community.

More information, about both the International Policy Summer Institute and the Bridging the Gap Project (funded by the Carnegie Corporation and coordinated by UC Berkeley, Duke University, and the George Washington University), can be found at: http://www.gwu.edu/~btg/

Warm regards,

Jim
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