[ACUNS] Review of Jonathan Paquin’s A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign...
From our friends at ACUNS. Jonathan Paquin, A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010). 230 Pages. Reviewed...
View Article[ACUNS] Review of Jeff Stouffer & Stefan Seiler (eds.) Military Ethics:...
Lt. Col. Jeff Stouffer & Stefan Seiler, eds., Military Ethics: International Perspectives (Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2010). Reviewed by Davis Brown (Assistant Professor of...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Great Battles in History by Darryl Dee
The LCMSDS is excited to share a new podcast hosted by Professor Darryl Dee, on the great battles of history: This podcast explores some of the most famous and most important battles in world history...
View ArticleWhy does Canada have a landmine foundation? Humanitarianism and the Movement...
For some, antipersonnel landmines (or AP mines) do not immediately invoke images of Canada. Fields scattered with hidden explosives, innocent civilians with missing limbs, and poverty stricken regions...
View ArticleAntipersonnel landmines: “A weapon of mass destruction in slow motion”
In my previous post I outlined the movement to ban antipersonnel mines in the 1990s. After the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, countries participating destroyed stockpiles of millions of AP mines. But...
View ArticleWartime Canada: A Visual Heritage of the Nation at War
LCMSDS is a partner in “Wartime Canada,” a digital database of written and printed matter from the First and Second World Wars. Caitlin McWilliams is a research associate with the project spearheaded...
View ArticleA Brief History of Landmines Part I—Pre-Modern Uses: Traps, Spikes and Caltrops
Article 2 of the Ottawa Treaty defined antipersonnel landmines as follows: 1. “Anti-personnel mine” means a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will...
View ArticleJacques Vico: Resistance Member and Humanist (1923-2012)
“D-day represents the happiness of being free. But it is also the day when they were so many SS killings.” – Jacques Vico Mr. Jacques Vico was a true hero of the Resistance and a great friend to...
View Article[ACUNS] Review of Frank Chalk and Romeo Dallaire et al. ‘Mobilizing the Will...
This is the first installation of a new book review series launched by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in cooperation with LCMSDS. In addition to our regular book review...
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