MPA 833 - Introduction to Defence Management (Fall Term - September 2011)

This course is designed as a survey seminar for non-specialists interested in the public administration of defence policy. The principal aim of the seminar is to examine the main areas of defence management with a view to building a foundation for further studies in the field. The course examines key topics and issues that shape the formulation and administration of defence policy and the direction of Canada's armed forces.

MPA 834 - Defence Decision Making (Winter Term - January 2012)

Structures for policy-making and management are founded on ideas about authority, organization and decision-making processes. This course examines the concepts advanced from time to time to provide for the structure for formulating and managing defence policy and for commanding the armed services of Canada. The main vehicles for this investigation are studies and reports concerning the "higher direction of national defence" prepared between 1936 and 2000. Through discussions and presentations, we shall extract and examine the ideas behind each attempt to change or reform the mechanism for defence decision-making. At the conclusion of the seminar, students will have a detailed understanding of how the evolution of ideas about structure and decision-making has brought the defence establishment to its present situation. This course will interest students from many sectors because the lessons learned about ideas and structure have broad application for reform in both private and public organizations.

MPA 831 - Economics of National Security (undertermined 2012)

This course consists of the economic analysis of mostly non-defence national security issues.  The main objective of the course is to enable students to understand the economic processes that underlie, in conjunction with political interactions, various security resource allocation issues.  Moreover, various structural and organizational security issues will be addressed.  Topics covered are classified into the rigorous economics framework of supply and demand.  Whenever appropriate, game-theoretic tools are used to analyze issues ranging from policing to peacekeeping and economic sanctions, food and health security, and organized crime to intelligence, and inevitably to terrorism.

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