Canadians are all too aware of the events of September 11th, 2001. What is far less evident is whether we have yet fully appreciated their implications for national defence. Those few hours of explosive activity in Manhattan and Washington highlighted the new challenges of what Elinor Sloan calls our “terrorist era,” one defined by itinerant actors with an unprecedented global reach and destructive capability that leave the state and its citizens facing danger from both within and…
David Dewitt
David Dewitt is Associate Vice-President of Research and Director of the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University. He is editing a two-volume set on Canada and international security to be published by University of Toronto Press in 2007.