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TSAS WP16-14: Talking to Foreign Fighters: Socio-Economic Push versus Existential Pull Factors
The research acquired primary data through interviews with foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, the families and friends of such fighters, and other online supporters of jihadism, to better understand – …
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 – …
Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act
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 – …
Political Demography of the New Security Environment
Political Demography: How population changes are reshaping the Security Landscape
About the Book: This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy. It focuses on non-traditional threats in a landscape that – …
The Ethics of Mega-Event Security: When the World Comes to Visit
Law, Logarithms and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Program
Canada’s National Counterterrorism Strategy and Challenges of Community Based Intervention in Countering Radicalization: A Perspective.
TSAS WP16-06: Teaching CVE: a review of the Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in Australia handbook, and challenges across policy and practice
(1) What are some of the key issues and challenges that emerged following the release of the Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in Australia (PVERA) handbook? (2) What lessons that – …
TSAS WP16-05: Assessment of the state of knowledge: Connections between research on the social psychology of the Internet and violent extremism
This paper seeks to answer the question: How does social psychology contribute to our understanding of the link between the Internet and violent extremism?
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 – …
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 – …
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 – …
Comparative Islamist Perspectives on the Politics of Energy in the Middle East and Beyond
Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence 1954-2009: Déjà vu all over again
TSAS WP14-06: (Mis)Understanding Muslim Converts in Canada: A Critical Discussion of Muslim Converts in the Contexts of Security and Society
This research seeks to understand the causes and processes of Islamic conversion in Canada through this initial study of Islamic conversion in Ontario. It attempts to contextualize Islamic conversion within – …
Anthropologists in the SecurityScape: Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity
TSAS WP14-05: The Effectiveness & Effects of Canada’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams
This paper is part of a larger project that studies the emergence of the idea of integration together with its implications. This paper asks: how has the idea of integration – …
Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America
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).
Notes on the Canadian Exception: Security Certificates in Critical Context
This paper attempts to place the Canadian security certificate program in critical context. The program is a mechanism of arbitrary detention targeted to non-citizens the state has certified as ‘threats’ – …
Canada’s National Security in the Post-9/11 World: Strategy, Interests, and Threats
No Exit: Racial Profiling and Canada’s War Against Terrorism
After September 11, 2001, some scholars and policy-makers promoted the racial profiling of Arabs and Muslims as a means towards greater national security. (Source: Publication).
Counterterrorism
Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act (S.C. 2001, c. 41), Bill C-36
The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism
Social Science for Counterterrorism: Putting the Pieces Together
National Security Law: Canadian Practice in International Perspective
National Security Law Blog
The Security Dimensions of an Influential China
On 28 February and 1 March 2013, in partnership with National Defence Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) hosted a two-day conference on China as part of its Academic – …
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 – …