Politics and Government
Politics and Government
TSAS WP17-03: The Experience of Canadian Muslim Civil-society Organization and Activists in Influencing and Shaping Counter-terrorism Legislation and Policy
The main objective of this research is to understand the experiences of Canadian Muslim civil-society organisations that seek to influence counter-terrorism legislation and policy. I use the public debate surrounding – …
Expressions of political practice: Collective angst moderates politicized collective identity to predict support for political protest (peaceful or violent) among diaspora group members
Abstract: In two studies, we examined an ethnic group (Tamil or Somali) at a key point in their history – when violent conflict rages in their homeland that will determine – …
Review of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture,
Earning Their Support: Feelings toward the Host Political Community among Recent Immigrants in Canada
Deception in Speeches of Candidates for Public Office
Know where, when and the ways to vote. But have opinions as well!
Voter Turnout among Younger Canadians and Visible Minority Canadians Evidence from the Provincial Diversity Project
From “Occupy Central” to Democracy: Is a Referendum for Hong Kong Feasible and Desirable?
Hezbollah’s Global Tentacles: The Party of God’s Convergence with Transnational Organized Crime
Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances
The New Face of Political Islam in Central Asia: The Rise of Islamo-democrats
Abstract: Political Islam in Central Asia is currently undergoing a transitional phase. Radical groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hizb ut-Tahrir no longer monopolize the Islamist scene. – …
Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act
Neutrality Law, Anti-terrorism and Foreign Fighters: Legal Solutions to the Recruitment of Canadians to Foreign Insurgencies
Iterations of Olympic security: Montreal and Vancouver
Abstract: This article compares security dynamics at two Olympic Games hosted by Canada: Montreal (1976) and Vancouver (2010). It is the first study of security at the Montreal Olympics and – …
Migrating Gender Inequalities? Immigrant Women’s Participation in Political Survey Research
Abstract: This study examines the participation of immigrant women in political surveys in Canada as a form of political participation. Investigating immigrant women’s participation in the various components of the – …
Usage du français et préférences politiques des néo-Québécois
Résumé Cette étude examine l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre l’usage de la langue française chez les néo-Québécois et leurs relations aux communautés politiques québécoise et canadienne. L’étude examine séparément – …
Current National Security and Human Rights Issues in the UK, Canada and Hong Kong
Counter-Insurgency Intelligence: Looking Forward by Looking Back.
About the Book: This thought-provoking work analyzes the major debates surrounding counterinsurgency campaigns and uncovers the internal security problems derailing effective strategies for restoring stability. As countries across the globe – …
High Visibility Policing: Policing on Camera and the Crisis of Police Legitimacy
The public now expects that police work will be video recorded. This challenges the foundational axiom that police work is a “low-visibility” occupation. Technological and social developments are rapidly making – …
Legislating in Fearful and Politicized Times: The Limits of Bill C-51’s Disruption Powers in Making us Safer
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In – …
The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 raise important questions concerning security, terrorism, and the – …
Public Security in Federal Systems
Go With The Flow: The (Im)Plausibility of a Grand Canadian Intergovernmental Bargain on Energy Policy and Strategy
Political Demography of the New Security Environment
The Promise and Perils of Integrated Models of Public Safety in Canada
Law, Logarithms and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Program
The effects of social and spatial control on the dynamics of contentious politics in Xinjiang since the end of the 1990s
Human Rights in Canada: A History. Studies in Political Philosophy Series.
This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that – …
Just Our Ordinary Citizens? Toward a Comparative Portrait of the Political Immigrant
Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising. Despite the existence of numerous studies on social, economic, and geographic integration, few books have – …
TSAS WP16-11: Jihad in the Jazeera: Explaining The Islamic State’s Growing Insurgent Threat in Egypt
Why did Wilayat Sinai – The Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula – evolve to become an unprecedented challenge to the Egyptian state?
TSAS WP16-09: Social impacts of the securitized arrival experiences of in-Canada refugee claimants
This multi-sited research included qualitative interviews with 19 in-Canada refugee claimants declared convention refugees under the new (since Dec 1, 2012) immigration legislation. The research sought to answer two questions: – …
TSAS WP16-04: Bridging the National Security Accountability Gap: A Three-Part System to Modernize Canada’s Inadequate Review of National Security
This paper examines existing challenges associated with the current structure of national security accountability review in Canada. It then draws on best practices in other jurisdictions to propose a systematic – …
TSAS WP16-02: Impromptu Initiative: Security Certificates and Scale
This paper offers some background and theoretical framing as part of a larger project on the Canadian Security Certificate Initiative. Here I consider questions about different ways of thinking about – …
TSAS WP16-01: Policies and Responsibilities for Governing Violent Extremism at Ontario Universities
This research looks at the governance of violent extremism on Ontario university campuses. Specifically, it explores: 1) how Ontario universities are governed; 2) how student organizations (such as clubs) and – …
Planning for the Worst: Olympic Security and Precautionary Governance
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. – …
Security and Uncertainty in Contemporary Delayed-Return Cultures: Coping with the Blockage of Personal Goals
Religious magnanimity: reminding people of their religious belief system reduces hostility after threat
Threat and defense: From Anxiety to Approach
The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability, or meaninglessness, and have developed separate theoretical – …
L’Analyse du Risque Géopolitique: du Plausible au Probable
This paper is going to explore the logical process behind risk analysis, particularly in geopolitics. The main goal is to demonstrate the ambiguities behind risk calculation and to highlight the – …
Study 2 of 3: Comparisons of Radicalized and Non-Radicalized Federal Offenders
The identification of considerable differences between radicalized and non-radicalized offenders across a variety of areas suggests that the case management, supervision, and intervention strategies used for each group may need – …
Study 3 of 3: Estimating Susceptibility to Prison Radicalization
The ability to estimate which inmates may be more susceptible to radicalizing influences and potentially intervene with those individuals prior to them being exposed or converted to a radical ideology – …
Use of Programs and Interventions with Canada’s Federally Sentenced Radicalized Offenders
Redefining Security in the Middle East
This book addresses the need to redefine security in the Middle East. The contributors to the volume come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but have a common interest in – …
Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel
Tami Amanda Jacoby investigates the constraints and opportunities for women’s civic engagements in zones of conflict through a case study of three women’s political movements in Israel: Women in Green, – …
Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement
The construction of the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank has become the site of one of the most heated controversies the world over, the source of virulent propaganda, – …
Israel’s Relations with Egypt and Turkey during the Arab Spring
What implications do the uprisings in the Middle East in 2010–2011 hold for Israel’s foreign relations with the two most strategically prominent states in the region, Egypt and Turkey? The – …
A Theory of Victimhood: Politics, Conflict and the Construction of Victim-Based Identity
What (and who) is a victim? In contemporary violent conflicts, the construction of grievance-based identity is a fundamentally contested process as the lines between victim and perpetrator are blurred by – …