Canada Can Do Much More With Its Five Eyes Allies To Respond To China And Russia’s Global Threats

By |2021-09-30T08:07:28-10:00September 30th, 2021|Categories: Faculty Articles, External Publications, news, hemmings|Tags: , , |

OTTAWA, ON (September 30, 2021): The international environment is increasingly insecure. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, China and Russia are attempting to reshape the international system and constrain the liberal democratic West. State competition is changing, in a shift towards deniable, intrusive, and non-military threats against all sectors of society and, as a result, liberal democracies are increasingly looking for collective ways to respond. To meet this growing global challenge, Canada could do much more with the historic Five Eyes grouping that also includes the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The Five Eyes began primarily as an intelligence-sharing [...]

DKI APCSS Associate Professor Co-Authors Article with Intern

By |2020-03-30T14:55:23-10:00March 25th, 2020|Categories: Faculty Articles, hemmings|Tags: , , |

DKI APCSS Assoc. Prof. John Hemmings and Intern Megan Wolf co-authored an article titled “Is Canada Ready For the New Age of Power Politics?” for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute website on March 25. Here’s an excerpt from the article: The world today is changing and the international stage is facing a dramatic shift as key states, like China and Russia, are substituting accepted standards and norms of the liberal rules-based order for a different, older form of international relations: one in which power is the standard by how things are judged. China is a clear example of this, brandishing its military power for [...]

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