The Bureaucracy of Intervention: Explaining Canadian Armed Forces Deployment Variations 2014-2018
Year: 2023

After the closure of the Afghanistan mission in March 2014, the Canadian government was presented with a distinctive opportunity to “re-set” the overseas posture of its armed forces. Almost all personnel serving overseas were brought back to Canadian soil before the government announced several new operations. From this “re-set” derives the central research question of this dissertation: Why do states who are not threatened deploy their armed forces in various speeds and sizes? Competing scholar