Visible War: Information War, Surveillance and Speed
The Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies
Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance – …
Cowardly Traitor or Heroic Whistleblower? The Impact of Edward Snowden’s Disclosures on Canada and the United Kingdom’s Security Establishments
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 – …
Private Eyes: Private Policing and Surveillance
About the Book: The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject of much debate and controversy, inciting fears of private warfare and even the collapse of – …
The Surveillance Of Social Networking And The Social Value Of Privacy
This chapter argues that theories about privacy would benefit from embracing deliberative democratic theory on the grounds that it addresses harms to democracy, and widens our understandings of privacy infringements – …
Forgotten Surveillance: Covert Human Intelligence Sources in Canada in a Post 9/11 World
Surveillance does not affect everyone equally. Since Edward Snowden made his initial flight to Hong Kong with a treasure trove of documents digitally stuffed in his computer, stories about the – …
Canada’s National Counterterrorism Strategy and Challenges of Community Based Intervention in Countering Radicalization: A Perspective.
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 – …
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 – …
TSAS WP15-06: Traits de personnalité et terrorisme
TSAS WP15-05: Personality Traits and Terrorism
RCMP National Security Program
CSIS Annual Report, 2010-2011
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 – …
Islamic Terrorism in the UK since 9/11: Reassessing the ‘Soft’ Response
Anthropologists in the SecurityScape: Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity
Transformation of jihadism in the Netherlands
Terrorist Networks as Strategic Repertoires: Functional Differentiation among Al-Shabaab Terror Cells
This article explains variation across the characteristics and structure of Al-Shabaab (AS) networks as a function of strategic repertoires. (Source: Publication).
‘Have A Go’: British Army/MI5 Agent-running Operations in Northern Ireland, 1970–72
Early in the Northern Ireland conflict the army took the lead in intelligence operations, including Humint. This article examines the case of ‘Observer B’, an agent run jointly with MI5. – …
TSAS WP14-03: Right-wing Extremism in Canada
What factors may promote violent right-wing extremism in Canada, and how is it connected to similar movements in the US and Europe? What impacts might this violence have on radicalization – …
The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement along Canada’s Smart Border
Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a – …
Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America
Canadian Military Intelligence in Afghanistan
When Secret Intelligence Becomes Evidence: Some Implications of Khadr and Charkaoui II
Khadr and Charkaoui II highlighted that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (“CSIS”) has constitutional and statutory obligations to retain and disclose secret intelligence. (Source: Publication).
The Unique Challenges of Terrorism Prosecutions: Towards a Workable Relation between Intelligence and Evidence
The focus in this study isle on the unique challenges presented by terrorism prosecutions especially those relating to the disclosure of otherwise secret intelligence. (Source: Publication).
FBI, Here I am!
National Security Law: Canadian Practice in International Perspective
Informing (In)Stability: The Security Implications of a Shifting News and Media Environment
This 60-page booklet contains highlights from the February 21-22 2012 conference that was held by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in collaboration with Policy Horizons Canada.
Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure
The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to examine the cyber threat environment confronting Canada’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), with a particular focus on four key sectors and their – …