National Defence vs Foreign Affairs: Culture Clash in Canadian Security Policy.

The concept of strategic culture as employed in this project is constructed from two factors, the concept of security and operational principles. Together these serve, along with the socio-historic environment, as intervening variables which mediate between the independent variable of relative power and the dependent variable of grand strategy. The key question which informs this paper is whether the evolution, presentation, and interpretation of human security within the relevant departments of the Government of Canada (notably DFAIT and CIDA) then carried over to inform and affect the definition of mandate and of threat as well as the policies, procedures, planning, deployment, and operating principles and practices of Canada?s Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces? In particular we are interested in whether and, if so, in what ways the discourses on security and the operational principles informing the deployment and application of military force (and other forms of coercive means such as police or special forces) incorporated or were affected by the emergence of the ideas of human security and their incorporation into the international security discourse of DFAIT, the department which leads on Canada?s role in international affairs. Further, it will be of interest to explore the extent to which the internationalization of the human security discourse and policy objectives, as they were adopted and enunciated by a variety of countries including those who are members of the Human Security Network, contributed to the saliency of human security thinking within both policy and operational branches of the Canadian government. Did this have any impact on the security or strategic culture within the Department of National Defence? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]