This issue of The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies presents seven invited articles on the theme of “the American Empire.” A variety of scholars, some well-established and some newer, were asked to examine the state and the potential of American relations with different regions of the world, with particular attention to the current “unipolar moment.”

Special Issue: Civil-Military Coordination: Challenges and Opportunities In Afghanistan and Beyond

The papers expand on presentations made at an expert workshop held in Calgary in March 2007 by the CMSS and the Institute of World Affairs on Coordinated Approaches to Security, Development and Peacekeeping: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan and Liberia.

Special Issue: Presentations from the Conference on Continental Defence: Policies, Threats, Architecture May 3-5, 2006, Calgary