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16th Defence and Security Economics Workshop 16ième Atelier en économie de défense et de sécurité


16th Defence and Security Economics Workshop

16ième Atelier en économie de défense et de sécurité

Registration/Inscription: https://cdainstitute.ca/2021-defence-security-economics-workshop-registration/. Zoom: Link upon registration/lien suite à l’inscription.

Sponsors/Parrains 

·        Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI)

·        Norman Paterson School for International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University

·        John Deutsch Institute, Department of Economics at Queen’s University

·        Royal Military College of Canada (RMC)/Collège militaire royal du Canada (CMR)

 

Thursday October 28th

Opening remarks: 8:40-8:50

Session 1: 8:50-10:10

Kristen Csenkey (Balsillie School, Univ. of Waterloo) & Nina Bindel (Institute for Quantum Computing, Univ. of Waterloo), “Post-Quantum Cryptographic Assemblages and the Governance of the Quantum Threat”

Discussant: Kim Huynh (Bank of Canada)

Phil Jones (Carleton Univ.), “Geography, Illicit Markets and Violent Conflict: An empirical analysis of homicide rates in Brazil’s border regions

Discussant: Vincent Chandler (UQO)

 

Break: 10:10-10:20

Session 2: 10:20-12:20

Keith Hartley (Univ. of York, U.K.), “Augustine Weapons Systems and the Future of Defence Industries

Discussant: Ugurhan Berkok (RMC & Queen’s Univ.) & Binyam Solomon (DRDC & Carleton Univ.)

Bohuslav Pernica (Univ. of Pardubice, Czechia), “Development of the Czech defence spending in the view of the Kingdon's multiple-streams framework

Discussant: Binyam Solomon (DRDC & Carleton Univ.)

Sebastián Briones (Univ. de Chile), “Transparency in defence resource planning: why so few?

Discussant: John McCormack (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

 

Lunch 12:20-13:00

 

Session 3: 13:00-15:00

Amit Loewenthal (Univ. of Potsdam), Sami H. Miaari (Tel-Aviv Univ., Univ. of Oxford & IZA) & Anke Hoeffler (Univ. of Konstanz), “Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Discussant: Eli Berman (Univ. of California, San Diego)

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang (Univ. of California, Berkeley), “The Economics of Terrorism and Social Media”

Discussant: Alex Chernoff (Bank of Canada)

Marion Bogers (Netherlands Defence Academy), Robert Beeres (Netherlands Defence Academy) & Joseph Soeters (Tilburg University), “Is there a relation between participation in UN peacekeeping operations and the UNSC elections?”

Discussant: Patrick Alexander (Bank of Canada)

 

Break: 15:00-15:10

 

Session 4: 15:10-16:30

Victor Munro (NPSIA, Carleton Univ.), “The attributes of insider threat typology - An analysis of motivational and behavioural attributes related to the violent extremist insider threat type

Discussant: Ryan Compton (University of Manitoba)

Eli Berman (Univ. of California, San Diego), Alexei Abrahams (Univ. of Toronto), Prabin Khadka (Univ. of Essex), Esteban Klor (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) & John Powell (Stanford Univ.), “Mostly Deterred: An Episodic Analysis of the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Discussant: Matt Webb (Carleton University)

 

Friday October 29th

 

Session 5: 8:50-10:50

CDA Institute panel: Economics of Domestic Vaccine Production

Moderator: Charles Davies (CDA Institute)

Panelists

BGen Krista Brodie (Vice-president of Vaccine Logistics & Operations, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Robert Van Exan (President, Immunization Policy and Knowledge Translation; Director Health and Science Policy, Sanofi Pasteur)

Paul Grootendorst (Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy; School of Public Policy and Governance, Univ. of Toronto)

Nathalie Nye (DG, Horizontal Integration, COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Task Force, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Charles Davies (CDA Institute)

Ugurhan G. Berkok (RMC & Queen’s Univ.)

 

Break: 10:50-11:00

 

Session 6: 11:00-12:20

Anessa Kimball (Université Laval), “Beyond 2% - NATO partners, institutions & burden management: Theories, concepts and improved models

Discussant: Dane Rowlands (NPSIA, Carleton Univ.)

Stephen R. Nagy (International Christian Univ., Japan & CGAI), “Function over form: Canada’s bolting-in and capabilities-led approach to QUAD-plus engagement

Discussant: Frank Milne (Queen’s Univ.)

 

Lunch: 12:20-13:00

Session 7: 13:00-15:00

Jessica Davis (NPSIA, Carleton Univ.), “Measuring the Impact of Counter-Terrorism Financing Legislation on Terrorist Activity

Discussant: Mohamed Douch (RMC)

Lucas Hellemeier (Freie Universität Berlin), “Defense Industrial Globalization and US Hegemonic Strategy

Discussant: Bryan Paterson (RMC)

Richard Ford, Timothy Ferris & John McCormack (Cardiff Metropolitan University), “International Cooperation in Defence Procurement and the Myth of Inefficiency

Discussant: Sebastian Briones (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

Break: 15:00-15:10

 

Session 8: 15:10-16:30

Shane D. Sanders (Syracuse Univ.), “Bargaining in the shadow of conflict - Resource division, non-convex bargaining and war’s inefficiency puzzle

Discussant: Oana Secrieru (RMC)

Oana Secrieru (RMC) & Ugurhan G. Berkok (RMC & Queen’s Univ.), “Tripwire Deterrence: NATO in the Baltics and U.S. in Taiwan

Discussant: Greg van Bavel (CORA, DRDC)

 

Contacts

Karl Skogstad [kaskogst@lakeheadu.ca]

Ugurhan G. Berkok [Ugurhan.Berkok@rmc.ca]

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