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Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act
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 – …
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 – …
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
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 – …
Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right Wing Extremist Movement in Canada
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 – …
The Harper Governments’ Messaging in the build up to the Libyan Intervention; Was Canada different than its NATO Allies
The Evolution of the Whole-of-Government Process and the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan
Centers of Concatenation: Fusing Data in Post-9/11 Security Organizations
Securitizing’ Canadian Policing: A New Policing Paradigm for the Post 9/11 Security State?
Communication and Transparency for the Governance of Crisis Response
Commission of Inquiry into the Air India Bombing: Recommendations
RCMP National Security Program
CSIS Annual Report, 2010-2011
The Constable in British Columbia: Police Training from the Academy to the Street
Political Demography of Canada-US co-dependence in defence and security
Defence Policy, ‘Walmart Style’: Canadian lessons in ‘not-so-grand’ strategy
Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada
The Russian Interventions in South Ossetia and Crimea Compared: Military Performance, Basis of Legitimacy, and Goals
Border Security as Practice: An Agenda for Research
The Paradox of Discretion: Customs and the Changing Occupational Identity of Canadian Border Officers
Les échecs des politiques anti-terroristes russes au Caucase du Nord
Public Security in Federal Systems
TSAS WP15-01: The Global Fight Against Terror: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Counter-terrorism Governance
What does counter-terrorism governance currently look like at the national, regional, and global levels, how effective has it been, and what are some possible ways forward? Since 9/11, intense efforts – …
Illicit Drugs and International Security: Towards UNGASS 2016
U.S. Intelligence Leaks Offer Chance for European Counterterrorism Reform
The recent revelations about U.S. intelligence programs are causing an uproar in Europe. In particular, the wide-ranging efforts to monitor European diplomatic offices and communications networks have led a number – …
Rise of Self-Defense Groups Highlights Mexico’s State-Level Security Challenges
The inhabitants of Michoacan, a state on Mexico’s Pacific coastline, must feel a grim sense of deja vu regarding recent developments surrounding organized crime-related violence in the region. Seven years – …