Hristijan Ivanovski
Hristijan Ivanovski is a Research Fellow at the University of Manitoba Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS; http://umanitoba.ca/centres/cdss/associates/1461.html), Associate Editor (Europe) of iAffairs Canada (http://iaffairscanada.com/author/hristijan-ivanovski/), and a former coordination officer with the Secretariat for European Affairs (SEA) of the Republic of Macedonia. Since 2016, he has also been a Member of East-West Bridge (EWB; http://www.ewb.rs/member.aspx?id=460) contributing to the Foundation’s Foreign Policy Task Force.
Hristijan joined the CDSS in May 2010, after spending four years (2005-2009) as a translation coordination officer with Macedonia’s SEA tasked with co-preparing the country’s national version of Acquis Communautaire (EU law). He has graduated from the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law (Ss. Cyril and Methodius State University) in Skopje with a BA in Political Studies and a specialization in International Relations. In 2016, Hristijan obtained an MA degree in Political Studies with a concentration in Strategic and Security Studies from the University of Manitoba. His MA thesis entitled "A Common Defence for Europe" serves as an important contribution to understanding a perplexing politico-military phenomenon - the European Union’s Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy (CFSP/CSDP).
Hristijan’s versatile research interests are primarily focused on four areas: Central and Eastern Europe, NATO and the EU’s CFSP/CSDP, arms control and non-proliferation, and Canada’s foreign and defence policies. His academic work relies on an overarching analytical method, including historicism, and cross-combining knowledge and concepts of political, regional, and strategic and security studies. In 2011/12, Hristijan received a Graduate Research Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from Canada's Department of Global Affairs (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade - DFAIT) and the Vancouver-based Simons Foundation (http://www.thesimonsfoundation.ca/highlights/graduate-research-awards-disarmament-arms-control-and-non-proliferation-3) and has since published numerous research papers, commentaries, and scholarly articles internationally. Among other publications, Hristijan’s work has appeared in Canadian Military Journal, American Intelligence Journal (soon), Contemporary Macedonian Defence, and Israel Defense. In recent years, he has also served as a peer-reviewer for Insight Turkey and contributed to the preeminent SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications Inc., 2017).
Hristijan is currently running a small-scale research project looking into the implications of the North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs for the continental security and defence of North America. He can be reached at hristijan.ivanovski@umanitoba.ca, on LinkedIn, or via Twitter @hristijani1.
Hristijan joined the CDSS in May 2010, after spending four years (2005-2009) as a translation coordination officer with Macedonia’s SEA tasked with co-preparing the country’s national version of Acquis Communautaire (EU law). He has graduated from the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law (Ss. Cyril and Methodius State University) in Skopje with a BA in Political Studies and a specialization in International Relations. In 2016, Hristijan obtained an MA degree in Political Studies with a concentration in Strategic and Security Studies from the University of Manitoba. His MA thesis entitled "A Common Defence for Europe" serves as an important contribution to understanding a perplexing politico-military phenomenon - the European Union’s Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy (CFSP/CSDP).
Hristijan’s versatile research interests are primarily focused on four areas: Central and Eastern Europe, NATO and the EU’s CFSP/CSDP, arms control and non-proliferation, and Canada’s foreign and defence policies. His academic work relies on an overarching analytical method, including historicism, and cross-combining knowledge and concepts of political, regional, and strategic and security studies. In 2011/12, Hristijan received a Graduate Research Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation from Canada's Department of Global Affairs (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade - DFAIT) and the Vancouver-based Simons Foundation (http://www.thesimonsfoundation.ca/highlights/graduate-research-awards-disarmament-arms-control-and-non-proliferation-3) and has since published numerous research papers, commentaries, and scholarly articles internationally. Among other publications, Hristijan’s work has appeared in Canadian Military Journal, American Intelligence Journal (soon), Contemporary Macedonian Defence, and Israel Defense. In recent years, he has also served as a peer-reviewer for Insight Turkey and contributed to the preeminent SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications Inc., 2017).
Hristijan is currently running a small-scale research project looking into the implications of the North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs for the continental security and defence of North America. He can be reached at hristijan.ivanovski@umanitoba.ca, on LinkedIn, or via Twitter @hristijani1.
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picture. The organizer of the most recent scientific gathering dedicated to examining contemporary
western military intervention writes: “...we believe western military efforts over the past two decades
have formed a definable interventionist cycle if not a distinct, single paradigm…” As a follow-up,
this paper seeks to explain the conceptual fundamentals of western military involvement from Iraq
to Libya, reveal and address some misunderstandings regarding the essence and (democratic)
implications of the use of force by the West, as well as identify the future trends and limitations in the
projection of western power.
- the CSIS,
- the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and
- the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (CFINTCOM).
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Conference Presentations by Hristijan Ivanovski
ancient realism---or as some wrongly refer to it as Cold-War thinking---appears to be an unbreakable
psychological barrier even for those who thoroughly understand the nuclear “threat of pain and
extinction" (Schelling), meeting Article VI (disarmament) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) is quite a challenge. Current concerns relative to proliferation tendencies among non-compliant
regimes as well as the potential implications of the still uncertain nuclear renaissance---which, if realized,
would disseminate sensitive (dual-use) nuclear technology among numerous untrustworthy actors---further the disarmament challenge. As a result, all the states parties to the NPT, not to mention those
beyond the nonproliferation regime, have failed to make sufficient efforts within their different nuclear
roles and responsibilities towards meeting the NPT disarmament clause, with many of them exhausting
themselves in a cacophonic debate on who is required to do what under NPT Articles III (nonproliferation safeguards), IV (peaceful use of the atom) and VI.
picture. The organizer of the most recent scientific gathering dedicated to examining contemporary
western military intervention writes: “...we believe western military efforts over the past two decades
have formed a definable interventionist cycle if not a distinct, single paradigm…” As a follow-up,
this paper seeks to explain the conceptual fundamentals of western military involvement from Iraq
to Libya, reveal and address some misunderstandings regarding the essence and (democratic)
implications of the use of force by the West, as well as identify the future trends and limitations in the
projection of western power.
- the CSIS,
- the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and
- the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (CFINTCOM).
ancient realism---or as some wrongly refer to it as Cold-War thinking---appears to be an unbreakable
psychological barrier even for those who thoroughly understand the nuclear “threat of pain and
extinction" (Schelling), meeting Article VI (disarmament) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) is quite a challenge. Current concerns relative to proliferation tendencies among non-compliant
regimes as well as the potential implications of the still uncertain nuclear renaissance---which, if realized,
would disseminate sensitive (dual-use) nuclear technology among numerous untrustworthy actors---further the disarmament challenge. As a result, all the states parties to the NPT, not to mention those
beyond the nonproliferation regime, have failed to make sufficient efforts within their different nuclear
roles and responsibilities towards meeting the NPT disarmament clause, with many of them exhausting
themselves in a cacophonic debate on who is required to do what under NPT Articles III (nonproliferation safeguards), IV (peaceful use of the atom) and VI.