Canadian security in a 21st century world

Unlike the threats of past millennia, planetary warming could ultimately lead to the destruction of what sustains human civilization and life as we know it.
Hard military power won’t ultimately eliminate this imminent danger, so governments in high-income democracies must immediately focus on soft-power priorities, writes Joseph Ingram.

When citizens of today’s democracies think of national security, their first instinct is to focus on military, political, and\or economic threats of the kind that have dominated geopolitics since the emergence of governing institutions. And who can blame them? With between...

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