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| Canadian Naval Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Canadian Naval Review |
| Abbreviation | CNR |
| Discipline | Naval affairs |
| Publisher | Centre for International Relations and Security Studies |
| Country | Canada |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 2005–present |
| Issn | 1715-0186 |
Canadian Naval Review Canadian Naval Review is a Canadian quarterly journal focusing on maritime strategy, naval history, maritime security, naval technology, and defence policy. It publishes peer-reviewed articles, commentary, and reviews that address issues relevant to the Royal Canadian Navy, allied navies, maritime law, Arctic operations, and international maritime affairs. The Review engages professional sailors, scholars from universities, think tanks, and analysts from institutions such as the Department of National Defence, NATO, and academic centres.
The Review emerged in the context of debates following the 1994 White Paper and the 1998 national defence renewal, reflecting shifts after the 2001 September 11 attacks, the 2006 Canada First Defence Strategy, and procurement controversies involving the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy and the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship program. Founding figures included veterans and academics linked with the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, United States Navy, Australian Defence Force, and scholars associated with the Naval War College, Canadian Forces College, and the United States Naval Academy. Early issues engaged topics such as the Cold War naval posture, the Falklands War, the Falklands contingency planning, the Gulf War, the Adriatic campaign, the War in Afghanistan, and deployments to Operation Reassurance and Operation Unified Protector. Over time, the Review has responded to policy documents like the Defence Policy Review, the FORCE 2017 refreshes, and shifts under successive ministers including those in the cabinets of Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, and leaders in Ottawa and provincial capitals.
Articles cover Canadian naval strategy, carrier operations, frigate design, submarine doctrine, mine countermeasures, amphibious warfare, maritime patrol, unmanned surface vessels, undersea warfare, naval logistics, and shipbuilding. Authors analyze historical cases such as the Battle of the Atlantic, the Dieppe Raid, the Battle of Jutland, the Korean War naval campaigns, the Normandy landings, and convoy operations in both world wars. Legal and diplomatic material addresses the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Arctic Council deliberations, the Svalbard Treaty, NORAD cooperation, and bilateral frameworks like the Canada–United States Defence Production Sharing Agreement. Technological coverage includes sensors from companies linked to British Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Thales, DCNS (Naval Group), General Dynamics, and Rolls-Royce, as well as systems like the Mk 41 VLS, Aegis Combat System, Sea Ceptor, and sonar suites.
The Review follows a quarterly schedule and features an editorial board drawn from university departments such as the Department of History at the University of Toronto, the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, and faculties at the Royal Military College of Canada, Dalhousie University, and the University of British Columbia. Editors have coordinated peer review procedures similar to practices at journals like International Security, Naval War College Review, Parameters, and Survival. The publisher has ties to research centres including the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Production involves copy editors, designers, and platforms for digital distribution managed alongside archival partners such as Library and Archives Canada and academic repositories at McGill University and the University of Ottawa.
Contributors include serving and retired officers from the Royal Canadian Navy, flag officers from the United States Navy, senior officers from the Royal Navy, Australian Navy, and New Zealand Defence Force, scholars from Princeton University, Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, King's College London, and research fellows from RAND Corporation, CSIS (Canada), the Hudson Institute, the Atlantic Council, Chatham House, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. Notable articles have examined case studies involving HMS Hood, HMCS Chicoutimi, HMCS Toronto, HMCS Fredericton, HMCS Ville de Québec, USS Enterprise, USS Nimitz, INS Vikramaditya, Charles de Gaulle carrier operations, Littoral Combat Ship debates, the Halifax-class modernization, and the Victoria-class submarine program. Symposia have featured essays on Arctic sovereignty, the Northwest Passage, Operation Nanook, Operation NANOOK and Operation NANOOK–PANGEA collaborations, climate change impacts on polar operations, and the implications of Chinese naval expansion and the Belt and Road Initiative for Pacific and Atlantic littorals.
The Review is distributed in print to libraries, naval colleges, defence establishments, and subscribing institutions, and available online via institutional subscriptions and open-access articles for selected issues. Libraries holding back issues include the National Defence Headquarters Library, the Parliamentary Library, the United States Naval Academy Library, the British Library, and university libraries at Dalhousie University, Memorial University, and the University of Victoria. Digital access has been facilitated through platforms similar to JSTOR and institutional e-resources used by universities such as McMaster University, the University of Calgary, Concordia University, and Simon Fraser University.
The journal has influenced debates in parliamentary committees, influenced testimony before the Standing Committee on National Defence, and informed analyses by think tanks including the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. It has been cited in policy briefings used by the Department of National Defence, NATO Allied Maritime Command assessments, Royal Navy strategic reviews, and academic monographs from publishers like Routledge, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press. Reviews in media outlets such as The Globe and Mail, The National Post, CBC, The Economist, and naval blogs have discussed its contributions to discourse on procurement, shipbuilding, Arctic strategy, and alliance interoperability.
The Review collaborates with entities such as the Royal Canadian Navy, Naval Association of Canada, Canadian Forces College, Royal United Services Institute, United States Naval Institute, NATO Allied Maritime Command, Arctic Council working groups, the International Maritime Organization, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada, Parks Canada (in historic ship preservation), the Canadian Coast Guard, and shipbuilders including Irving Shipbuilding, Seaspan, BAE Systems Submarines, Lockheed Martin Canada, and major naval yards in Halifax and Vancouver. Partnerships extend to academic networks at Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Memorial University’s Centre for Naval Studies, and international exchanges with institutions like the Naval War College, the United States Institute of Peace, and Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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