CIDP Fellow and host of today's episode H. Christian Breede is joined by our guest Major-General Greg Smith (Director General, International Security Policy, Department of National Defence) to discuss Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy, and, as a former CIDP visiting defence fellow, reminisce on his experience in the role at the Centre.sign up for our newsletter : https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/mailing-listVisit us at https://www.queensu.ca/cidp
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Ep. 11 - Trump, Putin & Who Will Defend Canada?
Host Pierre Jolicoeur is joined by our guest Keir Giles (Researcher in Russian Power Projection) to discuss his latest book “Who Will Defend Europe?”, where he talks Trump/Putin parallels, and given the rhetoric around the 51st state ponders the question “who will defend Canada?”sign up for our newsletter : https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/mailing-list Visit us at https://www.queensu.ca/cidp
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Ep. 10 - Russia, Ukraine and the Second Trump Term
Host Amar Amarasingam is joined by guest Kacper Rekawek, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Lead at The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), as they discuss Russia, Ukraine and the second Trump term.Book: https://www.routledge.com/Foreign-Fighters-in-Ukraine-The-Brown-Red-Cocktail/Rekawek/p/book/9781032043982?srsltid=AfmBOop_80Z5RcbqGjuLOcwnIBIy81kdqmpma1TKuA0jVKOmB6V-M1zMPublication: https://icct.nl/publication/people-are-still-fighting-lack-change-foreign-fighters-ukraine
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Ep. 9 - The Role Military Families Play in Supporting Military Efforts
At the 2025 Pedagogy Symposium in Toronto, ON host Yolande Bouka (Political Studies, Queen's University) met up with Dr. Leigh Spanner to discuss her research on military families in the CAF and her applied teaching methods.this episode is brought to you by the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security. visit them at https://www.rnwps.ca
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