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ISBN: 9780776605517-17

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The Canadian Military in the Security Environment of the Twenty-first Century

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

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It is difficult to guess what the future holds, but we can be certain that the faces of war and peace will change dramatically. New challenges will put greater demands on military personnel than ever before.

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Donna Winslow

Donna Winslow is an award-winning anthropologist and currently Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology of Development, at the Faculty of Social-Cultural Sciences, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Prior to this appointment she was Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa where she directed the Program for Research on Peace, Security, and Society at the Centre on Governance, in addition to co-ordinating the Military Officer Degree Program. She received her PhD from l'Université de Montreal. From 1995 to 1997 she served as a technical advisor to the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia and published the book The Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia: A Socio-cultural Inquiry (1997). Her current research involves issues of globalization