Research

Democracy

Know where, when and the ways to vote. But have opinions as well!

Geography: Canada
Year: 2015

From “Occupy Central” to Democracy: Is a Referendum for Hong Kong Feasible and Desirable?

Geography: China
Year: 2015

Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act

Geography: Canada
Year: 2015

Legislating in Fearful and Politicized Times: The Limits of Bill C-51’s Disruption Powers in Making us Safer

Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2015
Description:

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 – …

Public Security in Federal Systems

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2015

Go With The Flow: The (Im)Plausibility of a Grand Canadian Intergovernmental Bargain on Energy Policy and Strategy

Geography: Canada
Year: 2015

Law, Logarithms and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Program

Author(s): Forcese– Craig
Geography: Canada
Year: 2015

Human Rights in Canada: A History. Studies in Political Philosophy Series.

Publisher: WLU Press
Geography: Canada
Year: 2016
Description:

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 – …

Redefining Security in the Middle East

Year: 2002
Description:

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 – …

Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement

Author(s): jacoby-- Tami
Year: 2007
Description:

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, – …

Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right Wing Extremist Movement in Canada

Geography: Canada
Year: 2016
Description:

Despite the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s recent concern with the growing threat from right-wing extremists nationwide, we have little contemporary scholarship on the far right movement in Canada and fewer – …

L’avantage libéral: Le vote des minorités visibles lors des élections québécoises de 2012

Year: 1993

Halting al Qaeda’s African Rebound: Why Supporting the Arab Spring and Exploiting bin Laden’s Death will keep Canadians Safer

Author(s): Wilner-- Alex
Year: 2011
Description:

Little doubt exists that al Qaeda currently faces two unprecedented challenges: the “Arab Spring” sweeping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the death of Osama bin Laden in – …

Sûreté, Sécurité Civile et Mesures d’Urgence au Sein du Système Canadien de Gouvernance Multiniveau

Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2013
Description:

Across the full array of the machinery of modern democratic government, no relationship is more fraught with difficulty than that between government and the society it needs to protect from – …

Recruitment and Retention Strategy: Endogenous Constraints, Exogenous Imperatives

Year: 2012

The West’s Last War? Neo-Interventionism, Strategic Surprise and the Waning Appetite for Playing the Away Game

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2012

The 2012 National Elections in Papua New Guinea: Averting violence

Year: 2012

TSAS WP14-02: Between Here and There: Pre- and Post-migration Experiences and Generalized Trust among Recent Immigrants in Canada

Publisher: TSAS
Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2014
Description:

This study examines levels and origins of trust among recent immigrants in Canada.

Terrorism and Human Rights: A Decade of Canadian Practices

Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2011
Description:

The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of some of the challenges that Canada has faced in tackling terrorist threats since the events of the 11th September – …

Counterterrorism

Publisher: Polity Press
Year: 2009

Is Democracy the Only Game in Town? Tension Between Immigrants’ Democratic Desires and Authoritarian Imprints

Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2012
Description:

This article borrows from the literature on transitional democracies to examine levels of support for democracy and non-democratic alternatives among immigrants travelling from partly and non-democratic countries to Canada. (Source: – …

A Global Culture to Fight Extremism

Author(s): Nawaz– Maajid
Publisher: TED Talk
Year: 2011

The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism

Author(s): Bell– Colleen
Publisher: UBC Press
Geography: Canada, North America
Year: 2011