Summary of CASIS Annual Conferences
Highlights from the CASIS 2017 Annual Symposium
Final Summary Highlights from the CASIS 2016 Annual Symposium
Highlights of CASIS Conference January 2015
Canadian Foreign Intelligence History Project
https://carleton.ca/csids/canadian-foreign-intelligence-history-project/
Commissioner Bob Paulson John Tait Lecture CASIS 2016
John Tait Memorial Lecture Commissioner Paulson 2016
Weller Prize Winners
CASIS Weller Prize – graduate – Dzintars Alex
CASIS Weller Prize – undergraduate – Wes Laporte
Publications of Interest by CASIS Members
Phil Gurski’s new book on terrorism, “The Threat from Within: Recognizing Al Qaeda-inspired Radicalization and Terrorism in the West” (Rowman and Littlefield), will appear on October 16.
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting (borealisthreatandrisk.com). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS from 2001-2013, specializing in Al Qaeda-inspired violent extremism and radicalization. From 1983 to 2000 he was employed as a senior multilingual analyst at Communications Security Establishment, specialising in the Middle East. He also served as senior special advisor in the National Security Directorate at Public Safety Canada from 2013 until his retirement from the civil service in May 2015. Mr. Gurski has presented on Al Qaeda-inspired violent extremism and radicalization across Canada and around the world. He regularly blogs (pkgursk.wordpress.com) and tweets (@borealissaves) on terrorism.
Phil is on the program commitee for the CASIS annual conference, Friday, January 15, Barney Danson Theatre, Canadian War Museum.
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CASIS Vice-President Thomas Juneau has just published a paper on Iran that will be of interest to those tracking Iran’s ambitions as a regional power. The main argument of the report is that Iran is not a rising regional hegemon but rather a mid-sized regional power frustrated at not reaching its ambitions. The report is a synthesis of some of the main elements of Thomas’s book, Sqaundered Opportunity: Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Polciy, from Stanford University Press.
Article
http://www.mei.edu/content/article/iran%E2%80%99s-failed-foreign-policy-dealing-position-weakness
Book
(http://www.amazon.com/Squandered-Opportunity-Neoclassical-Realism-Iranian/dp/0804793050/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1430700594&sr=8-1).
Presentations to CASIS Conferences
Historical Declassification and Access to Information Dr I Campbell 2002
Democracy and Counter-Terrorism David Charters 2002
Morrison 2002 Intelligence Studies in the UK
The Changing World of Contemporary Terrorism and Intelligence Failures Palfy 2002
Tait Lecture 2002 Morris Rosenberg
The New Terrorism and the Information Society O’Brian 2002
DNI Burgess 2008
Dick Fadden-CSIS Speech To CASIS OCT 09
Tait Lecture 2009 RCMP Commissioner Bill Elliott
Tony Campbell 2010
Federal Departments
PUBLIC SAFETY CANADA
- Umbrella department, designed to coordinate federal departments with a remit for emergency management and national security.
- Three priority areas include emergency management, public safety and national security.
- Specific areas of concern include chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive weapons (CBRNE), terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, cyber security and intelligence.
- Does not collect intelligence. Has an intelligence policy directorate. Receives intelligence from Canadian intelligence community.
- Replaces the former Solicitor General of Canada department, under which CSIS was found.
- Houses the defunct Inspector General of CSIS.
- Website
- Publications and Reports
- PS Act
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
- Considers security intelligence domestically and abroad
- Considers foreign intelligence domestically
- Is responsible for terrorism, counter-intelligence, CBRNE, weapons of mass destruction, etc.
- Website
- Department Reports
- CSIS Act
- ATIP Requests
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- Used to house the RCMP Security Service, the predecessor to CSIS
- Collects intelligence, conducts analysis
- Carries out national security-related arrests, acting in concert with CSIS
- Website
- Departmental Reports
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
- Has a robust intelligence collection and analysis section
- Website
COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT (CSE)
- See website headings for background information
- Website
- Linkages to Allied Websites
DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE (DND)
Canadian Military Intelligence Command
PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE (PCO)
SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REVIEW COMMITTEE (SIRC)
CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE CANADA (CISC)
FINANCE CANADA
- Financial Transactions Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
- Website
- Publications