Wilfrid Greaves
Biographic Data
| ID | 228360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilfrid Greaves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilfrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Greaves |
| SIGNATURE | GREAVES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5485-068X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The fragmented Arctic: Comparing Arctic security public opinion in Russia and the A7
The circumpolar Arctic region has undergone a major geopolitical transformation because of two external forces altering regional security: climate change and increasing great power competition, notably due to the Russian war against Ukraine. Underscored by the de facto suspension of pan-Arctic cooperation after Russia’s expanded invasion in February 2022, the circumpolar Arctic has fragmented into two distinct blocs: the Russian Federation and th…
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy
Diplomacy and the Arctic Council by Danita Catherine Burke
Climate change and security in Canada
This article examines the implications of human-caused climate change for security in Canada. The first section outlines the current state of climate change, the second discusses climate change impacts on human security in Canada, and the third outlines four other areas of Canada's national interests threatened by climate change: economic threats; Arctic threats; humanitarian crises at home and abroad; and the threat of domestic conflict. In the …
Democracy, Donald Trump and the Canada-US Security Community
This article examines Canada-US relations through their shared membership in a pluralistic security community (PSC). While the bilateral relationship has been turbulent for decades, the Trump presidency has damaged the Canada-US PSC by (1) exacerbating a decades-long trend of weakened shared identity and mutual trust between Canadians and Americans, and (2) undermining the democratic norms and institutions that uphold American domestic stability …
Damaging Environments
This article theorizes why Indigenous peoples' security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully "speak" security to the state. I argue that nondominant societal groups are unable to gain authoritative acceptance for security issues …
Constructing Arctic security: An inter-disciplinary approach to understanding security in the Barents region
The field of Security Studies traditionally focused on military threats to states' survival, however, since the end of the Cold War the concept of security has widened and individuals and communities have gradually become viewed as appropriate referent objects of security: Multifaceted challenges facing communities at the sub-state level are increasingly regarded as security threats, including their potential to cause instability for the larger s…
Arctic (in)security and Indigenous peoples: Comparing Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway
While international relations has increasingly begun to recognize the political salience of Indigenous peoples, the related field of security studies has not significantly incorporated Indigenous peoples either theoretically or empirically. This article helps to address this gap by comparing two Arctic Indigenous peoples – Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway – as ‘securitizing actors’ within their respective states. It examines how organizations r…
Securing sustainability: The case for critical environmental security in the Arctic
The politics, economies, and ecology of the Arctic region are experiencing fundamental transformation driven largely by human-caused environmental change. Drawing on the work of Robert Cox, this article presents a critical account of environmental security that allows security issues in the Arctic to be reconceptualised. It outlines the environmental changes transforming the Arctic, and theorises the Arctic as a regional environmental security co…
Articulating the Arctic: Contrasting state and Inuit maps of the Canadian north
This paper compares four maps produced by the Canadian government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the indigenous peoples’ organisation representing Inuit living in the four recognised Inuit regions ( Inuit Nunangat ) of Canada. Our analysis is based on publicly available maps, documents, and records and extends the rich existing literature examining the history of definitions of the Canadian north. Distinctly, our research aims to understand the dif…
Arctic in the Anthropocene: Sustainability in a new polar age
The Arctic provides one of the most striking signatures of climate change impacts. Accelerated loss of sea ice extent and thickness, loss in biodiversity, changing atmospheric circulation patterns, and melting permafrost portray only a few aspects of a rapidly changing Arctic. In recognition of the inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary (Keil 2015) discussions, tools, mechanisms, and implementation strategies necessary to address these challengin…
Naturally insecure: Critical environmental security and critical security studies in Canada
The field of critical environmental security (CES) has been contributed to by a variety of Canadian and Canada-based scholars, and has engaged with several themes of particular significance to the political and territorial space of the Canadian state. Despite this, CES has been largely absent from the emergence of a self-consciously Canadian critical security studies (CCSS). This paper attempts to bridge these two fields, arguing that CCSS cannot…
For Whom, from What: Canada's Arctic Policy and the Narrowing of Human Security
Since its inception in the iggos, human security has become a significant, perhaps defining, aspect of Canadian foreign policy. is credited with propagating a unique approach to human security by exercising international leadership on multiple high-profile policy initiatives. Many observers have noted that human security provides the most consistent unifying framework for Canadian foreign and security policy in the post-Cold War era. Some have go…
Arctic (in)security and Indigenous peoples: Comparing Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway
While international relations has increasingly begun to recognize the political salience of Indigenous peoples, the related field of security studies has not significantly incorporated Indigenous peoples either theoretically or empirically. This article helps to address this gap by comparing two Arctic Indigenous peoples – Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway – as ‘securitizing actors’ within their respective states. It examines how organizations r…
Articulating the Arctic: Contrasting state and Inuit maps of the Canadian north
This paper compares four maps produced by the Canadian government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the indigenous peoples’ organisation representing Inuit living in the four recognised Inuit regions ( Inuit Nunangat ) of Canada. Our analysis is based on publicly available maps, documents, and records and extends the rich existing literature examining the history of definitions of the Canadian north. Distinctly, our research aims to understand the dif…
Damaging Environments
This article theorizes why Indigenous peoples' security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully "speak" security to the state. I argue that nondominant societal groups are unable to gain authoritative acceptance for security issues …
Climate change and security in Canada
This article examines the implications of human-caused climate change for security in Canada. The first section outlines the current state of climate change, the second discusses climate change impacts on human security in Canada, and the third outlines four other areas of Canada's national interests threatened by climate change: economic threats; Arctic threats; humanitarian crises at home and abroad; and the threat of domestic conflict. In the …
Democracy, Donald Trump and the Canada-US Security Community
This article examines Canada-US relations through their shared membership in a pluralistic security community (PSC). While the bilateral relationship has been turbulent for decades, the Trump presidency has damaged the Canada-US PSC by (1) exacerbating a decades-long trend of weakened shared identity and mutual trust between Canadians and Americans, and (2) undermining the democratic norms and institutions that uphold American domestic stability …
Naturally insecure: Critical environmental security and critical security studies in Canada
The field of critical environmental security (CES) has been contributed to by a variety of Canadian and Canada-based scholars, and has engaged with several themes of particular significance to the political and territorial space of the Canadian state. Despite this, CES has been largely absent from the emergence of a self-consciously Canadian critical security studies (CCSS). This paper attempts to bridge these two fields, arguing that CCSS cannot…
For Whom, from What: Canada's Arctic Policy and the Narrowing of Human Security
Since its inception in the iggos, human security has become a significant, perhaps defining, aspect of Canadian foreign policy. is credited with propagating a unique approach to human security by exercising international leadership on multiple high-profile policy initiatives. Many observers have noted that human security provides the most consistent unifying framework for Canadian foreign and security policy in the post-Cold War era. Some have go…
Securing sustainability: The case for critical environmental security in the Arctic
The politics, economies, and ecology of the Arctic region are experiencing fundamental transformation driven largely by human-caused environmental change. Drawing on the work of Robert Cox, this article presents a critical account of environmental security that allows security issues in the Arctic to be reconceptualised. It outlines the environmental changes transforming the Arctic, and theorises the Arctic as a regional environmental security co…
For Whom, from What: Canada's Arctic Policy and the Narrowing of Human Security
Since its inception in the iggos, human security has become a significant, perhaps defining, aspect of Canadian foreign policy. is credited with propagating a unique approach to human security by exercising international leadership on multiple high-profile policy initiatives. Many observers have noted that human security provides the most consistent unifying framework for Canadian foreign and security policy in the post-Cold War era. Some have go…
Naturally insecure: Critical environmental security and critical security studies in Canada
The field of critical environmental security (CES) has been contributed to by a variety of Canadian and Canada-based scholars, and has engaged with several themes of particular significance to the political and territorial space of the Canadian state. Despite this, CES has been largely absent from the emergence of a self-consciously Canadian critical security studies (CCSS). This paper attempts to bridge these two fields, arguing that CCSS cannot…
Arctic (in)security and Indigenous peoples: Comparing Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway
While international relations has increasingly begun to recognize the political salience of Indigenous peoples, the related field of security studies has not significantly incorporated Indigenous peoples either theoretically or empirically. This article helps to address this gap by comparing two Arctic Indigenous peoples – Inuit in Canada and Sámi in Norway – as ‘securitizing actors’ within their respective states. It examines how organizations r…
Securing sustainability: The case for critical environmental security in the Arctic
The politics, economies, and ecology of the Arctic region are experiencing fundamental transformation driven largely by human-caused environmental change. Drawing on the work of Robert Cox, this article presents a critical account of environmental security that allows security issues in the Arctic to be reconceptualised. It outlines the environmental changes transforming the Arctic, and theorises the Arctic as a regional environmental security co…
Articulating the Arctic: Contrasting state and Inuit maps of the Canadian north
This paper compares four maps produced by the Canadian government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the indigenous peoples’ organisation representing Inuit living in the four recognised Inuit regions ( Inuit Nunangat ) of Canada. Our analysis is based on publicly available maps, documents, and records and extends the rich existing literature examining the history of definitions of the Canadian north. Distinctly, our research aims to understand the dif…
Arctic in the Anthropocene: Sustainability in a new polar age
The Arctic provides one of the most striking signatures of climate change impacts. Accelerated loss of sea ice extent and thickness, loss in biodiversity, changing atmospheric circulation patterns, and melting permafrost portray only a few aspects of a rapidly changing Arctic. In recognition of the inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary (Keil 2015) discussions, tools, mechanisms, and implementation strategies necessary to address these challengin…
Constructing Arctic security: An inter-disciplinary approach to understanding security in the Barents region
The field of Security Studies traditionally focused on military threats to states' survival, however, since the end of the Cold War the concept of security has widened and individuals and communities have gradually become viewed as appropriate referent objects of security: Multifaceted challenges facing communities at the sub-state level are increasingly regarded as security threats, including their potential to cause instability for the larger s…
Damaging Environments
This article theorizes why Indigenous peoples' security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully "speak" security to the state. I argue that nondominant societal groups are unable to gain authoritative acceptance for security issues …
Democracy, Donald Trump and the Canada-US Security Community
This article examines Canada-US relations through their shared membership in a pluralistic security community (PSC). While the bilateral relationship has been turbulent for decades, the Trump presidency has damaged the Canada-US PSC by (1) exacerbating a decades-long trend of weakened shared identity and mutual trust between Canadians and Americans, and (2) undermining the democratic norms and institutions that uphold American domestic stability …
Diplomacy and the Arctic Council by Danita Catherine Burke
Climate change and security in Canada
This article examines the implications of human-caused climate change for security in Canada. The first section outlines the current state of climate change, the second discusses climate change impacts on human security in Canada, and the third outlines four other areas of Canada's national interests threatened by climate change: economic threats; Arctic threats; humanitarian crises at home and abroad; and the threat of domestic conflict. In the …
Emissions reduction, military lands, and Canada’s defence policy
The fragmented Arctic: Comparing Arctic security public opinion in Russia and the A7
The circumpolar Arctic region has undergone a major geopolitical transformation because of two external forces altering regional security: climate change and increasing great power competition, notably due to the Russian war against Ukraine. Underscored by the de facto suspension of pan-Arctic cooperation after Russia’s expanded invasion in February 2022, the circumpolar Arctic has fragmented into two distinct blocs: the Russian Federation and th…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)