NORAD: Past, Present, Future
Date: Monday, October 30, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm-6:00 pm, Toronto time
Delivery: Hybrid (online and in-person)
Location: In-person at the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom
The Graham Centre brings together leading experts on NORAD to discuss the past, present, and future of this unique institution.
About the Speakers
Dr. Andrea Charron is Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, and Professor of International Relations at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. from the Royal Military College of Canada (Department of War Studies). She is co-author of NORAD: In Perpetuity and Beyond (MQUP, 2022), coeditor of The Legacy of 9/11: Views from North America (MQUP, 2023) and several others on sanctions.
Dr. James Fergusson is currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba. His recent publications, co-authored with Dr. Charron, are NORAD: In Perpetuity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022), “NORAD and USNORTHCOM”s Deterrence Conundrum”, Journal of Strategic Studies (Winter, 2021), From NORAD to NOR[A]D: The Future of North American Defence Cooperation. Calgary: Canadian Global Affairs Institute. May, 2018; and Canada and Defence Against Help: The Wrong Theory for the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time. Canadian Defence. Eds. Thomas Juneau and Phillipe Lagasse. His single-authored publications include Relic of the Past: Why the demise of the Cold War INF Treaty will not alter the strategic military balance.(Ottawa: MacDonald-Laurier Institute) and Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence 1954-2009: Déjà vu all over again, Canadian War Museum Military History Series. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. In addition to his academic publications, Dr Fergusson has been commissioned to write several reports for the Department of National Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs. He lectures to a wide range of military audiences, including to the Canadian Forces Barker College. Dr. Fergusson has testified on many occasions to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Standing Committee on National Defence, and the Senate Standing Committee on National Security. He served for ten years on the Defence Science Advisory Board. He also served as Honorary Colonel of the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies, and subsequently a five year position as Honorary Colonel of 2 Canadian Air Division.
Dr. Joseph T. Jockel is Piskor Professor of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He is the author or co-author of many articles and several books on Canadian defense policy and Canada-US military relations, including, No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the Origins of North American Air Defense, 1945-1958, Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007, A History, and Canada in NATO: 1949-2019. He also once was the Acting Secretary of the US section of the Canada-US Permanent Joint Board on Defence.