NEW PARADIGMS FOR DEFENCE PROCUREMENT AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY?
Being held at the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, this conference is sponsored by, Queen's University Defence Management Studies, the Institute for Defence Resource Management (Royal Military College, Kingston) and the Security and Defence Forum at National Defence.
Defence Management Studies at Queen’s University will hold a conference entitled “New Paradigms for Canadian Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy?” on 27 February 2012 at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.
This one-day conference will aim to achieve two objectives:
First, the Federal Government’s shipyard selection decision in Fall 2011 launches a new shipbuilding program. This conference will discuss if this program is, as stated by the Government, a long-term strategy of sustaining the navy shipbuilding in Canada – in other words, a defence industrial policy.
Second, the conference will also discuss whether other sectors of the Canadian defence industrial base exhibit international competitiveness and, hence, might be targeted as part of a wider defence industrial policy.
To access this conference webpage for more conference information and to register click here.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY (KCIS Conference) 11-13 June 2012
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
In the last few years, western democracies have experienced shocks to national and collective economic systems and the drawdown of western international military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. In light of these circumstances, militaries of western democracies have experienced broad-based downward pressure on their defense budgets; and nations have reevaluated their international roles and strategies as they restrain the growth of government spending, address national debt concerns and strive to meet budget goals. These pressures have resulted in defense budget projections that range from slowed growth to significant cuts over the next decade. These two drivers (Iraq/Afghanistan draw down & weak economies) establish the environment in which nations will resource their militaries and view their national roles relative to maintaining the international security environment (national security strategies). In light of these changing security commitments and budget pressures, it is reasonable that western democracies re-evaluate their international engagements and evaluate the trade-offs of retaining national military effectiveness while leveraging efficiencies to achieve collective security through existing and future collaboration mechanisms. This year's conference will address this topic through a variety of panel discussions.
The KCIS Conference website will be updated as information becomes available. Please visit it often over the coming months.
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