Joel J Sokolsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 310091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel J Sokolsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokolsky |
| SIGNATURE | SOKOLSKY J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Military College of Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paying it forward: Canada's renewed commitment to Nato's enhanced Forward Presence
Although the dissolution of the Soviet Union may have altered the founding Cold War rationale for NATO, the fundamental principle of the transatlantic alliance has prevailed for 70 years: the collective defence of shared interests. In the face of Russian aggression, and uncertainty about US continued commitment to the alliance, reinforcing NATO has emerged as Canada's top expeditionary defence priority. Indeed, just before the NATO summit in July…
Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada’s War in Afghanistan by Stephen M. Saideman
Norad does not need saving
In the current Canadian discussion of missile defence, it is often claimed that the future of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is under threat and that it will be saved only if Canada opts in. The command does not need saving, however. Any such claim draws attention away from the real North American defence challenges that Canadians need to face in a debate about continental strategic defence: whether or not Canada needs to be…
Defense Policy 'Walmart Style: Canadian Lessons in “not-so-grand” Grand Strategy
As the government of Canada cuts back on defense spending after years of significant increases, critics lament the supposed lack of a 'grand strategy' when it comes to military expenditures. But the current reductions are actually a return to traditional Canadian grand strategy, albeit one that is not that 'grand.' Put in retail shopping terms, Canada has tended to follow an economizing Walmart approach to defense spending as opposed to a more up…
The “lessons” of Vietnam for Canada: Complicity, irrelevance, earnestness, or realism
This essay looks back on three classic texts depicting Canadian foreign policy during the Vietnam era in pursuit of lessons for policymakers in Ottawa today. It concludes that Canadians should not be so self-critical of their country’s inability to exercise influence on complex and difficult global problems. While Canada continues to be able to make a helpful contribution to world affairs, Canada’s international engagements should focus less on t…
The Canadian Strategic Debate of the Early 1960s
Ever since Canada emerged as a distinct and active international actor in the immediate post- World War II period there has been a certain schizophrenic character associated with the debates about the country's inherently proper role in the world. This has especially been the case in the context of Ottawa's relations with Washington, particularly on broad military strategic issues. Should Canada closely commit itself to collective western defence…
Canada and Nato: Keeping Ottawa in, Expenses Down, Criticism Out… and the Country Secure
LORD ISMAY, CANADIAN-STYLELord Ismay, NATO's first secretary general, famously summed up the purposes of the Atlantic alliance as keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. Behind this legendary bon mot was a stern reality that encapsulated NATO's grand strategic rationale. It was first and foremost about security. Security meant holding the Soviet Union militarily and politically at bay so that behind the shield afforded b…
Canada and the war in Afghanistan: Nato's odd man out steps forward
Northern exposure
A One Ocean Fleet: The Atlantic and Canadian Naval Policy
From the beginnings of the Cold War until the present the Canadian Navy has been a one ocean fleet, postured primarily to supply anti-submarine warfare (ASW) forces to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Atlantic. Various plans, including the 1987 White Paper on defence, to give the Navy more balance in terms of its areas of operation, mix of forces and missions, have been largely unsuccessful. The main reason for this is that th…
Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
Northern Exposure: American Homeland Security and Canada
INTRODUCTIONIn the days and weeks following 11 September 2001, rumours spread that some of the terrorists had entered the United States from Canada. Although these proved be false, the view gained credence that American was dangerously exposed along its northern, undefended border. It was an assessment furthered and encouraged by widespread criticism in Canada that for years Ottawa had failed take the terrorist threat seriously, especially by its…
The Bilateral Security Relationship: Will “National” Missile Defense Involve Canada
Introduction: Beyond the End Four years ago, Joseph Jockel and I proclaimed the of the Canada-U.S. defense relationship. (1) With the passing of the Cold War, its two central elements--collaboration the aerospace defense of North America through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and cooperation European security under the umbrella of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)--were fading into geostrategic obscurity. Rather …
Lloyd Axworthy's Legacy: Human Security and the Rescue of Canadian Defence Policy
THE POST-COLD WAR DEBATES over whether and how Canada should be involved in overseas conflicts are coming to a close. Canada will both fight and keep the peace, due in large part to Lloyd Axworthy, who stepped down after four years as minister of foreign affairs to take a position at the University of British Columbia. Henceforth, when the Canadian Forces go abroad, they will do so, as they did in Kosovo, explicitly or implicitly in support of 'h…
The Nixon Administration and the Making of U.S. Nuclear StrategyTerry Terriff Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 252
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Great Ideals and Uneasy Compromises: The United States Approach to Peacekeeping
Canadian Defense Policy and the Future of Canada-United States Security Relations
(1994). Canadian Defense Policy and the Future of Canada-United States Security Relations. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 537-559
Domestic Disturbancess and the Military: The Canadian Experience
Dandurand Revisited: Rethinking Canada's Defence Policy in an Unstable World
The heavy sacrifices to which we agreed for the re-establishment of peace in Europe led us to reflect on what the future might hold in store. May I be permitted to add that in this association of mutual insurance against fire the risks assumed by the different states are not equal? We live in a fire-proof house, far from inflammable materials. A vast ocean separates us from Europe. Senator Raoul Dandurand
The Future of North American Defence Co-operation
A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative
A Seat at the Table: Canada and Its Alliances
Canada's alliance relationships, NATO and NORAD, constitute nearly the sum total of Canadian defense policy. In addition to providing national security through collective Western defense, these alliances have been viewed in Canada as affording Ottawa a seat at the table, where important issues of international security and U.S.Soviet relations are discussed. While enjoying this access, Canada has, nonetheless, been concerned about the overwhelmin…
Trends in United States Strategy and the 1987 White Paper on Defence
to drop the reinforcement role in Norway and the pledges to strengthen Canada's contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) in Germany and at sea, the government hopes to begin closing the gap between military commitments and capabilities which has steadily increased over the past twenty years.2 Modernization of the forces dedicated to the North American Aerospace Defence (norad) Command, begun in the early 1980s, will also help…
Changing Strategies, Technologies and Organization: The Continuing Debate on Norad and the Strategic Defense Initiative
The renewal of the Canada-US North American Aerospace Defence (NORAD) agreement in March 1986 will not end the debate on the relationship between NORAD and trends in American strategy, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This article reviews and explains the various strains of that debate. It points out why some in Canada argue that participation in NORAD will inevitably lead to Canadian involvement in the ballistic missile defence …
Canada: The not so faithful ally
Lloyd Axworthy's Legacy: Human Security and the Rescue of Canadian Defence Policy
THE POST-COLD WAR DEBATES over whether and how Canada should be involved in overseas conflicts are coming to a close. Canada will both fight and keep the peace, due in large part to Lloyd Axworthy, who stepped down after four years as minister of foreign affairs to take a position at the University of British Columbia. Henceforth, when the Canadian Forces go abroad, they will do so, as they did in Kosovo, explicitly or implicitly in support of 'h…
Dandurand Revisited: Rethinking Canada's Defence Policy in an Unstable World
The heavy sacrifices to which we agreed for the re-establishment of peace in Europe led us to reflect on what the future might hold in store. May I be permitted to add that in this association of mutual insurance against fire the risks assumed by the different states are not equal? We live in a fire-proof house, far from inflammable materials. A vast ocean separates us from Europe. Senator Raoul Dandurand
A Seat at the Table: Canada and Its Alliances
Canada's alliance relationships, NATO and NORAD, constitute nearly the sum total of Canadian defense policy. In addition to providing national security through collective Western defense, these alliances have been viewed in Canada as affording Ottawa a seat at the table, where important issues of international security and U.S.Soviet relations are discussed. While enjoying this access, Canada has, nonetheless, been concerned about the overwhelmin…
Changing Strategies, Technologies and Organization: The Continuing Debate on Norad and the Strategic Defense Initiative
The renewal of the Canada-US North American Aerospace Defence (NORAD) agreement in March 1986 will not end the debate on the relationship between NORAD and trends in American strategy, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This article reviews and explains the various strains of that debate. It points out why some in Canada argue that participation in NORAD will inevitably lead to Canadian involvement in the ballistic missile defence …
Defense Policy 'Walmart Style: Canadian Lessons in “not-so-grand” Grand Strategy
As the government of Canada cuts back on defense spending after years of significant increases, critics lament the supposed lack of a 'grand strategy' when it comes to military expenditures. But the current reductions are actually a return to traditional Canadian grand strategy, albeit one that is not that 'grand.' Put in retail shopping terms, Canada has tended to follow an economizing Walmart approach to defense spending as opposed to a more up…
Canada and Nato: Keeping Ottawa in, Expenses Down, Criticism Out… and the Country Secure
LORD ISMAY, CANADIAN-STYLELord Ismay, NATO's first secretary general, famously summed up the purposes of the Atlantic alliance as keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. Behind this legendary bon mot was a stern reality that encapsulated NATO's grand strategic rationale. It was first and foremost about security. Security meant holding the Soviet Union militarily and politically at bay so that behind the shield afforded b…
Northern Exposure: American Homeland Security and Canada
INTRODUCTIONIn the days and weeks following 11 September 2001, rumours spread that some of the terrorists had entered the United States from Canada. Although these proved be false, the view gained credence that American was dangerously exposed along its northern, undefended border. It was an assessment furthered and encouraged by widespread criticism in Canada that for years Ottawa had failed take the terrorist threat seriously, especially by its…
Great Ideals and Uneasy Compromises: The United States Approach to Peacekeeping
Paying it forward: Canada's renewed commitment to Nato's enhanced Forward Presence
Although the dissolution of the Soviet Union may have altered the founding Cold War rationale for NATO, the fundamental principle of the transatlantic alliance has prevailed for 70 years: the collective defence of shared interests. In the face of Russian aggression, and uncertainty about US continued commitment to the alliance, reinforcing NATO has emerged as Canada's top expeditionary defence priority. Indeed, just before the NATO summit in July…
Norad does not need saving
In the current Canadian discussion of missile defence, it is often claimed that the future of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is under threat and that it will be saved only if Canada opts in. The command does not need saving, however. Any such claim draws attention away from the real North American defence challenges that Canadians need to face in a debate about continental strategic defence: whether or not Canada needs to be…
Canada and the war in Afghanistan: Nato's odd man out steps forward
A One Ocean Fleet: The Atlantic and Canadian Naval Policy
From the beginnings of the Cold War until the present the Canadian Navy has been a one ocean fleet, postured primarily to supply anti-submarine warfare (ASW) forces to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Atlantic. Various plans, including the 1987 White Paper on defence, to give the Navy more balance in terms of its areas of operation, mix of forces and missions, have been largely unsuccessful. The main reason for this is that th…
The Canada-Us. Alaska Highway Pipeline: A Study in Environmental Decision-Making
Canada: The not so faithful ally
Washington and Ottawa: The next phase
Changing Strategies, Technologies and Organization: The Continuing Debate on Norad and the Strategic Defense Initiative
The renewal of the Canada-US North American Aerospace Defence (NORAD) agreement in March 1986 will not end the debate on the relationship between NORAD and trends in American strategy, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This article reviews and explains the various strains of that debate. It points out why some in Canada argue that participation in NORAD will inevitably lead to Canadian involvement in the ballistic missile defence …
Trends in United States Strategy and the 1987 White Paper on Defence
to drop the reinforcement role in Norway and the pledges to strengthen Canada's contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) in Germany and at sea, the government hopes to begin closing the gap between military commitments and capabilities which has steadily increased over the past twenty years.2 Modernization of the forces dedicated to the North American Aerospace Defence (norad) Command, begun in the early 1980s, will also help…
A Seat at the Table: Canada and Its Alliances
Canada's alliance relationships, NATO and NORAD, constitute nearly the sum total of Canadian defense policy. In addition to providing national security through collective Western defense, these alliances have been viewed in Canada as affording Ottawa a seat at the table, where important issues of international security and U.S.Soviet relations are discussed. While enjoying this access, Canada has, nonetheless, been concerned about the overwhelmin…
The Future of North American Defence Co-operation
A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative
Domestic Disturbancess and the Military: The Canadian Experience
Dandurand Revisited: Rethinking Canada's Defence Policy in an Unstable World
The heavy sacrifices to which we agreed for the re-establishment of peace in Europe led us to reflect on what the future might hold in store. May I be permitted to add that in this association of mutual insurance against fire the risks assumed by the different states are not equal? We live in a fire-proof house, far from inflammable materials. A vast ocean separates us from Europe. Senator Raoul Dandurand
Canadian Defense Policy and the Future of Canada-United States Security Relations
(1994). Canadian Defense Policy and the Future of Canada-United States Security Relations. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 537-559
Great Ideals and Uneasy Compromises: The United States Approach to Peacekeeping
The Nixon Administration and the Making of U.S. Nuclear StrategyTerry Terriff Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 252
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Bilateral Security Relationship: Will “National” Missile Defense Involve Canada
Introduction: Beyond the End Four years ago, Joseph Jockel and I proclaimed the of the Canada-U.S. defense relationship. (1) With the passing of the Cold War, its two central elements--collaboration the aerospace defense of North America through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and cooperation European security under the umbrella of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)--were fading into geostrategic obscurity. Rather …
Lloyd Axworthy's Legacy: Human Security and the Rescue of Canadian Defence Policy
THE POST-COLD WAR DEBATES over whether and how Canada should be involved in overseas conflicts are coming to a close. Canada will both fight and keep the peace, due in large part to Lloyd Axworthy, who stepped down after four years as minister of foreign affairs to take a position at the University of British Columbia. Henceforth, when the Canadian Forces go abroad, they will do so, as they did in Kosovo, explicitly or implicitly in support of 'h…
Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
Northern Exposure: American Homeland Security and Canada
INTRODUCTIONIn the days and weeks following 11 September 2001, rumours spread that some of the terrorists had entered the United States from Canada. Although these proved be false, the view gained credence that American was dangerously exposed along its northern, undefended border. It was an assessment furthered and encouraged by widespread criticism in Canada that for years Ottawa had failed take the terrorist threat seriously, especially by its…
Northern exposure
A One Ocean Fleet: The Atlantic and Canadian Naval Policy
From the beginnings of the Cold War until the present the Canadian Navy has been a one ocean fleet, postured primarily to supply anti-submarine warfare (ASW) forces to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Atlantic. Various plans, including the 1987 White Paper on defence, to give the Navy more balance in terms of its areas of operation, mix of forces and missions, have been largely unsuccessful. The main reason for this is that th…
Canada and the war in Afghanistan: Nato's odd man out steps forward
Canada and Nato: Keeping Ottawa in, Expenses Down, Criticism Out… and the Country Secure
LORD ISMAY, CANADIAN-STYLELord Ismay, NATO's first secretary general, famously summed up the purposes of the Atlantic alliance as keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. Behind this legendary bon mot was a stern reality that encapsulated NATO's grand strategic rationale. It was first and foremost about security. Security meant holding the Soviet Union militarily and politically at bay so that behind the shield afforded b…
The Canadian Strategic Debate of the Early 1960s
Ever since Canada emerged as a distinct and active international actor in the immediate post- World War II period there has been a certain schizophrenic character associated with the debates about the country's inherently proper role in the world. This has especially been the case in the context of Ottawa's relations with Washington, particularly on broad military strategic issues. Should Canada closely commit itself to collective western defence…
The “lessons” of Vietnam for Canada: Complicity, irrelevance, earnestness, or realism
This essay looks back on three classic texts depicting Canadian foreign policy during the Vietnam era in pursuit of lessons for policymakers in Ottawa today. It concludes that Canadians should not be so self-critical of their country’s inability to exercise influence on complex and difficult global problems. While Canada continues to be able to make a helpful contribution to world affairs, Canada’s international engagements should focus less on t…
Norad does not need saving
In the current Canadian discussion of missile defence, it is often claimed that the future of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is under threat and that it will be saved only if Canada opts in. The command does not need saving, however. Any such claim draws attention away from the real North American defence challenges that Canadians need to face in a debate about continental strategic defence: whether or not Canada needs to be…
Defense Policy 'Walmart Style: Canadian Lessons in “not-so-grand” Grand Strategy
As the government of Canada cuts back on defense spending after years of significant increases, critics lament the supposed lack of a 'grand strategy' when it comes to military expenditures. But the current reductions are actually a return to traditional Canadian grand strategy, albeit one that is not that 'grand.' Put in retail shopping terms, Canada has tended to follow an economizing Walmart approach to defense spending as opposed to a more up…
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