National Security

Author : Stephanie Carvin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487534738

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Stand on Guard by Stephanie Carvin Pdf

In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services today. As new forms of terrorism and extremism appear, especially online, we need a responsibly widened view of such threats and how they manifest in the contemporary world. Canadians should not be more fearful, Carvin explains, but a more sophisticated understanding among security services personnel and the general public is needed if we are to anticipate and ameliorate threats to national security. As a former security analyst tasked with providing threat assessments to high levels of government, Carvin writes with both authority and urgency. Her book presents an insider’s look at the issues facing the Canadian security and intelligence community. Timely and accessible, Stand on Guard will be required reading for scholars, practitioners, and any Canadian concerned about national security in the twenty-first century.

Author : Gary Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781926662749

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Whose National Security? by Gary Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman Pdf

Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and ’60s they did. They also monitored high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists, consumer’s associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereigntists. The establishment of a tenacious Canadian security state came as no accident. On the contrary, the highest levels of government and the police, along with non-governmental interests and institutions, were involved in a concerted campaign. The security state grouped ordinary Canadians into dozens of political stereotypes and labelled them as threats. Whose National Security? probes the security state’s ideologies and hidden agendas, and sheds light on threats to democracy that persist to the present day. The contributors’ varied approaches open up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying.

Author : Stephanie Carvin,Thomas Juneau,Craig Forcese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487536664

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Top Secret Canada by Stephanie Carvin,Thomas Juneau,Craig Forcese Pdf

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government. Motivated by some of the pressing questions and concerns of citizens, Top Secret Canada is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of the Canadian intelligence community, its different parts, and how it functions as a whole. In taking up this important task, contributors aim to identify the key players, explain their mandates and functions, and assess their interactions. Top Secret Canada features essays by the country’s foremost experts on law, foreign policy, intelligence, and national security, and will become the go-to resource for those seeking to understand Canada’s intelligence community and the challenges it faces now and in the future.

Author : David McDonough
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442662605

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Canada's National Security in the Post-9/11 World by David McDonough Pdf

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which targeted the heart of financial and military power in the United States, Canada once again proved its credentials as a key American ally. With the imminent end of its combat role in Afghanistan, however, it is time to take stock of how Canada has adapted to the exigencies of the post-9/11 world and to consider the future directions for its foreign, defence, and security policies. This timely exploration and re-assessment of Canada's approach to strategic affairs offers a diverse set of nuanced, sometimes controversial, and always insightful perspectives on the most pressing security challenges that Canada currently faces. Bringing together noted experts on these issues – including a Canadian Senator, a past Minister of National Defence, former high-level military officers, and top scholars - this collection provides powerful ideas and guidance for the difficult task of formulating an overarching national security strategy.

Author : Leah West
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1773852434

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Stress Tested: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security by Leah West Pdf

The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security within a global health crisis. Some argue that the effects of COVID-19 on Canada represent an intelligence failure, or a failure of early warning. Others argue that the role of intelligence and national security in matters of health is--and should remain--limited. At the same time, traditional security threats have rapidly evolved, themselves impacted and influenced by the global pandemic. Stress Tested brings together leading experts to examine the role of Canada's national security and intelligence community in anticipating, responding to, and managing a global public welfare emergency. This interdisciplinary collection offers a clear-eyed view of successes, failures, and lessons learned in Canada's pandemic response. Addressing topics including supply chain disruptions, infrastructure security, the ethics of surveillance within the context of pandemic response, the threats and potential threats of digital misinformation and fringe beliefs, and the challenges of maintaining security and intelligence operations during an ongoing pandemic, Stress Tested is essential reading for anyone interested in the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Donald M. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317248316

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National Security by Donald M. Snow Pdf

This text analyzes the history, evolution, and processes of national security policies. It examines national security from two fundamental fault lines--the end of the Cold War and the evolution of contemporary terrorism, dating from the 9/11 terrorist attacks and tracing their path up to the Islamic State (ISIS) and beyond. The book considers how the resulting era of globalization and geopolitics guides policy. Placing these trends in conceptual and historical context and following them through military, semi-military, and non-military concerns, National Security treats its subject as a nuanced and subtle phenomenon that encompasses everything from the global to the individual with the nation at its core. New to the Sixth Edition Fully updated with expanded coverage of ISIS, the "new cool war" with Russia, cybersecurity challenges, natural resource wars and development, negotiations with Iran, border threats, and much more. Includes a completely new chapter on "lethal landscapes" such as developing world international conflicts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East; the "siren song" of the Islamic State; and the dilemmas of guns, butter, and boots on the ground. Shifts the focus from globalization to a more widely-ranging look at security, from the individual level to the regional to the global.

Author : Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228004288

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National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont Pdf

Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs, examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.

Author : Craig Forcese,Leah West
Publisher : Irwin Law
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1552215512

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National Security Law, 2/e by Craig Forcese,Leah West Pdf

National Security Law, 2e, is about the law governing the Canadian state's response to serious crises. The book approaches national security law as a system, organizing its discussion of law around five themes: structure, threats, information, response, and accountability. This edition is a comprehensive rewrite of the first edition.

Author : Gary Kinsman,Patrizia Gentile
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859028

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The Canadian War on Queers by Gary Kinsman,Patrizia Gentile Pdf

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the "war on terror."

Author : Gordon Adams,Cindy Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135172923

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Buying National Security by Gordon Adams,Cindy Williams Pdf

Examines the planning and budgeting processes of the United States. This title describes the planning and resource integration activities of the White House, reviews the adequacy of the structures and process and makes proposals for ways both might be reformed to fit the demands of the 21st century security environment.

Author : Franklin D. Kramer,Stuart H. Starr,Larry K. Wentz
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781597979337

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Cyberpower and National Security by Franklin D. Kramer,Stuart H. Starr,Larry K. Wentz Pdf

This book creates a framework for understanding and using cyberpower in support of national security. Cyberspace and cyberpower are now critical elements of international security. United States needs a national policy which employs cyberpower to support its national security interests.

Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745649399

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National Security Intelligence by Loch K. Johnson Pdf

National security intelligence is a vast, complicated, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. This definitive introduction to the field guides readers skillfully through this hidden side of government. It not only explains the three primary missions of intelligence – information collection and analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action – it also explores the wider dilemmas posed by the existence of secret government organizations in 'open' societies. With over thirty-five years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, Loch Johnson illuminates difficult questions such as why intelligence organizations make mistakes in assessing world events; why some intelligence officers decide to work against their own country on behalf of foreign regimes; and how agencies succumb to scandals, including spying on the very citizens they are meant to protect. National Security Intelligence is tailor-made to meet the interests of students and general readers who care about how nations protect themselves against threats through the establishment of intelligence organizations - and how they continue to strive for safeguards to prevent the misuse of this secret power.

Author : Derek S. Reveron,Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429994753

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Human and National Security by Derek S. Reveron,Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris Pdf

Deliberately challenging the traditional, state-centric analysis of security, this book focuses on subnational and transnational forces—religious and ethnic conflict, climate change, pandemic diseases, poverty, terrorism, criminal networks, and cyber attacks—that threaten human beings and their communities across state borders. Examining threats related to human security in the modern era of globalization, Reveron and Mahoney-Norris argue that human security is national security today, even for great powers. This fully updated second edition of Human and National Security: Understanding Transnational Challenges builds on the foundation of the first (published as Human Security in a Borderless World) while also incorporating new discussions of the rise of identity politics in an increasingly connected world, an expanded account of the actors, institutions, and approaches to security today, and the ways diverse global actors protect and promote human security. An essential text for security studies and international relations students, Human and National Security not only presents human security challenges and their policy implications, it also highlights how governments, societies, and international forces can, and do, take advantage of possibilities in the contemporary era to develop a more stable and secure world for all.

Author : Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081579323

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American National Security by Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor Pdf

Author : Gina M. Bennett
Publisher : Nancy Cleary
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : 9781932279726

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National Security Mom by Gina M. Bennett Pdf

Written by a mother of five and 20-year veteran of counterterrorism in the U.S. Intelligence Community, this book demystifies the underworld of terrorism and offers a unique comparison of how the super-secret intelligence approach to securing the nation is surprisingly similar to how parents secure their homes and families.