Confronting Terror In Canada And The United States

Confronting Terror in Canada and the United States: Domestic and International Dimensions University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honolulu, Hawai'i February 24 – 26, 2016

Confronting Terror in Canada and the United States: Domestic and International Dimensions IT Center, Rooms 105 A & B, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honolulu, Hawaiʻi February 24 – 26, 2016

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Conveners Dr. Michael K. Hawes, CEO Fulbright Canada & Professor (on leave) Queen’s University Dr. Kenneth Holland, Executive Director, Center for International Development, Ball State Dr. Christopher Kirkey, Director, Center for the Study of Canada, SUNY Plattsburgh Dr. Denise Eby Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The conference conveners would like to thank the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (DDFIA) for their generosity and support and, in particular, for hosting the event at Shangri-La. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday February 24, 2016: Pre-Conference Administrative Events 10:00 am – 11:00 am: Press Conference & Signing Ceremony Queen Liliuokalani Center, Room 412, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa On behalf of the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh: Dr. John Ettling, President, & Dr. Christopher Kirkey, Director, Center for the Study of Canada On behalf of Fulbright Canada: Dr. Roseann Runte, Chair, Board of Directors, & Dr. Michael Hawes, Chief Executive Officer On behalf of the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa: Dr. Robert Bley-Vroman, Chancellor, & Dr. Denise Eby Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences 11:30 am – 1:30 pm: Signing Ceremony Luncheon (by invitation) Pacific Club, 1451 Queen Emma St, Honolulu 8:00 pm: Organizers’ Dinner (by invitation) Hosted by Dr. John Ettling, President, and Ms. Lisa Lewis, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, Orchids at Halekulani, 2199 Kalia Rd, Honolulu

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Wednesday February 24, 2016: Conference Program (all participants) 2:15 pm: Meet at the Aloha Landing, Sheraton Waikiki for motor coach transport to Shangri La 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Open House at Shangri-La, Center for Islamic Arts and Cultures Owned and supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Shangri La is the Honolulu home of Doris Duke. Built in 1937, Shangri La houses an extensive collection of Islamic art. It is open for public tours and serves as a place for learning about Islamic arts and cultures, offering guided tours, residencies for scholars and artists, and programs for the purpose of improving understanding of the Islamic world.

Speaker: Farideh Farhi, Independent Scholar, Affiliate Graduate Faculty at UH Mānoa Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Affiliate Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. She has taught comparative politics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Hawai'i, University of Tehran, and Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. Her publications include States and UrbanBased Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua (University of Illinois Press) and numerous articles and book chapters on comparative analyses of revolutions and Iranian politics. She has been a recipient of grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the Rockefeller Foundation and was most recently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Crisis Group. Website: https://lobelog.com/author/farideh-farhi/ 5:30 pm: Board bus to return to Sheraton Waikiki Hotel

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Thursday February 25, 2016: Academic Program (Please note that all formal sessions are in Room 105 A/B at the IT Center) 7:30 am: Meet at the Aloha Landing, Sheraton Waikiki for motor coach transport to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa IT Center 8:30 am – 9:30 am: Opening Session (Continental breakfast served) Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Denise Eby Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa & Dr. John Ettling, President, SUNY College at Plattsburgh Introduction of Conference Participants and Presenters Discussion of Conference Format, Overview of the Project, & Rules of Engagement Michael Hawes, Kenneth Holland & Christopher Kirkey The format for this colloquium is a variation on a more traditional authors’ workshop, where selected participants will be providing a detailed critique of a colleague’s paper (speaking for not more than 15 minutes). The author(s) will then have 5- 7 minutes to respond to the critique. This should lead directly to a 20 minute discussion period featuring participation from the entire group. Each session will conclude with a 5 minute comment by one of the conference conveners.

9:30 am – 11:00 am: Panel I -- Defining the Problem: Between Theory and Practice 1.1 Stéphane Roussel (l’École nationale d’Administration publique, ENAP) will comment on the paper prepared by Lasha Tchantouridze (Norwich University), entitled “Canada, the United States, and Islamic Extremism: Confronting Terror - Domestic and International Dimensions” 1.2 Kenneth Holland (Ball State) will comment on the paper prepared by Patrick Belanger (Cal State Monterey Bay) entitled “Canada and Islamic Extremism: Communication and Credibility” 1.3 Nicole Grove (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) will comment on the paper prepared by Nevzat Soguk (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) entitled “The Rojava Revolution In Syria: An Experiment In Democratic Communalism” 1.4 Comment by the Moderator Michael Hawes 11:00 am – 11:15 am: Coffee Break

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Thursday February 25, 2016: Academic Program 11:00 am – 11:15 am: Coffee Break 11:15 am – 12:45 pm: Panel II -- The Problem in Perspective 2.1 Stéphane Paquin (l’École nationale d’Administration publique, ENAP) will comment on the paper prepared by David Haglund (Queen’s University) and Pierre Martin (l’Université de Montréal) entitled “From the ‘Filbusterers’ to the ‘Homegrowns’: The Evolving Salafist Jihadi Challenge to North American Security” 2.2 Stéfanie von Hlatky (Queen’s University) will comment on the paper prepared by Kevin McMahon (Trinity College) entitled “From Approval to Outrage: Analyzing Reactions to Trudeau & Harper's Anti-Terror Measures” 2.3 Arthur Cockfield (Queen’s University) will comment on the paper prepared by Cindy May (King’s College London) entitled “The Evolution of U.S. Counterterrorism Policies from President Reagan to President Obama” 2.4 Comment by the Moderator Christopher Kirkey 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm: Catered Lunch, on site 2:15 pm – 5:00 pm: Panel III -- Society and Culture 3.1 Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) will comment on the paper prepared by Steven Engler (Mount Royal University) entitled “Takfiri-Jihadi-Salafism, Transposed Charisma, and the Paradoxes of Religion in Canada” 3.2 Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham) will comment on a paper prepared by Tami Jacoby (University of Manitoba) entitled “Canada, the United States, and Islamic Extremism: Confronting Terror – Domestic and International Dimensions” 3.3 Steven Engler (Mount Royal University) will comment on a paper prepared by Baljit Nagra & Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa) entitled “The Experiences of Canadian Muslims with the Passenger Protect List and the Restriction of Movement” 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm: Coffee Break 3.4 Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) will comment on a paper prepared by Kawser Ahmed and James Fergusson (University of Manitoba) entitled “Perceptions of Radicalization in a Western Context and an Evaluation of Selected Community-driven Counter Radicalization”

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3.5 Jody Neathery-Castro (University of Nebraska) will comment on a paper prepared by Cheryl Gosselin (Bishop’s University) entitled “Negotiating Identity and Belonging: Quebec’s response to cultural diversity, Muslim immigration, terrorism and Islamic extremism” Convener’s Comment – Christopher Kirkey 5:00 pm: Depart by motor coach from the UH Mānoa IT Center for transport to College Hill

5:15 – 7:00 pm: Chancellor’s Reception College Hill: 2230 Kamehameha Ave, Honolulu, HI 96822 The reception is hosted by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Chancellor Dr. Robert Bley-Vroman.

College Hill was built in 1902 and occupied by Frank C. Atherton and his family for nearly 60 years. It was gifted to the university by his children in 1964 and designated as official residence of the University of Hawai'i President. The home was recently renovated, and, in keeping with State law, was restored to its original glory. The university currently uses the house for events and activities.

Mahalo to the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Democratic Leadership for sponsoring the College Hill reception and related activities. The Center is a living tribute to a man who embodied the ideals of democracy and freedom. His life, his actions and his beliefs are like the ocean waves - endless, powerful change agents that will continue to transform Hawai'i, the nation and the world.

8:00 pm: Depart by motor coach from College Hill for transport to the Sheraton Waikiki

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Friday February 26, 2016: Academic Program Day II 7:45 am: Meet at the Aloha Landing, Sheraton Waikiki for motor coach transport to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa IT Center 8:30 am - 9:00 am: Coffee and light breakfast served in the conference room.

9:00 am -10:30 am: Panel IV – Law & Politics 4.1 Tami Amanda Jacoby (University of Manitoba) will comment on a paper prepared by Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) entitled “Anti-Terrorism as an Alibi for Repressive Immigration Policies” 4.2 Kevin McMahon (Trinity College) will comment on a paper prepared by Benjamin Perryman (Dalhousie University/Yale Law) “The Most Constitutional Bill We Have Introduced”: AntiTerrorism Legislation as the Case for Abstract Constitutional Review in Canada” 4.3 Benjamin Perryman (Dalhousie University/Yale Law) will comment on a paper prepared by Arthur Cockfield (Queen’s University) & Christian Leuprecht (Royal Military College of Canada) entitled “Evaluating Canadian and U.S. Anti-Terrorist Financing Laws: Using Network Science to Map Global Terrorist Financing Networks” Convener’s Comment – Kenneth Holland 10:30 am – 10:45 am: Coffee Break 10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Panel V -- Technology & Social Media 5.1 Baljit Nagra (University of Ottawa) will comment on a paper prepared by Nicole Grove (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) entitled “Get Your War On’: Social Media, Radicalization, and the Global Organization of Violence in the Open-Source ISIS Conflict 5.2 Cheryl Gosselin (Bishop’s University) will comment on a paper prepared by Jody NeatheryCastro (University of Nebraska) & Lisa Lehimdjian (University of Nebraska / Johns Hopkins University) entitled “Mapping the Social Media Reach of ISIS” 5.3 Patrick Belanger (Cal State Monterey) will comment on a paper prepared by Kenneth Holland (Ball State) and Julie Lebo (Ball State) entitled “Threat and Counter Threat: How ISIS Uses the Internet to Recruit Fighters and Supporters in North America.”

Convener’s Comment – Michael Hawes 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Catered Lunch Served

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1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Panel VI -- A Comparative Perspective 6.1 James Fergusson (University of Manitoba) will comment on a paper prepared by Christian Leuprecht (Royal Military College of Canada) entitled, “Canada’s continental and international threat vectors: Islamist extremists in comparative perspective” 6.2 Cindy May (King’s College London) will comment on a paper prepared by Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham) entitled “You know you can do it”: Domestic Counter-Terrorism through Covert Human Intelligence Sources in the United States and Canada in the post-9/11 World” 6.3 Frank Harvey (Dalhousie) will comment on a paper prepared by Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University) entitled “Strategic Cousins Revisited: Australia, Canada and Jihadist Extremism” Convener’s Comment – Christopher Kirkey 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Coffee Break 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Panel VII – Policy: Foreign and Domestic 7.1 Lasha Tchantouridze (Norwich University) will comment on a paper prepared by Stéfanie von Hlatky (Queen’s University) and Justin Massie (UQAM), entitled “From Reluctant Warrior to Warmonger? Canada and the Decision to Use Force in Iraq (and Syria)” 7.2 Pierre Martin (l’Université de Montréal) will comment on a paper prepared by Stéphane Paquin (l’École nationale d’Administration publique, ENAP) & Stéphane Roussel (l’École nationale d’Administration publique, ENAP) entitled “War and Elections in Canada” 7.3 Justin Massie (UQAM) will comment on a paper prepared by Frank Harvey (Dalhousie) entitled “Countering Terrorism in the U.S. and Canada: A Comparative Analysis of the Politics of Fear and the Power of Failure” Convener’s Comment – Michael Hawes 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Summary, Conclusions, and Next Steps Michael Hawes, Christopher Kirkey, Kenneth Holland, & Denise Eby Konan 5:00 pm: Depart by motor coach from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa IT Center for transport to the Sheraton Waikiki

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Conveners Dr. Michael Hawes is a political science professor, a lifelong advocate of international education, and a proud alumnus of the Fulbright program. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America and Executive Director of Fulbright Canada. Since 1985, he has been a professor of international relations (currently on leave) in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston. He currently chairs the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Studies in International Development at McGill University and is a member of the board of Canada World Youth. He is also a member of the editorial board at the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal and a member of the ACSUS advisory board.

Michael was Visiting Professor at the Center for Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at the University of Southern California in 2010; J. William Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the John A. Sproul Senior Research Fellow in Canadian Studies in 1999-2000; Visiting Scholar at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in Mexico City; Visiting Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia; Visiting Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm; Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at Tsukuba University in Japan; and, on several occasions, Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at the International University of Japan in Niigata Japan. He was Senior Fellow at PARMEC (the Program for the Study of Mexico, the United States, and Canada) at ITAM in Mexico City, Research Associate at Nichi-Bei Ken (the Center for Japan- U.S Relations) at Kokusai Daigakku in Japan, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Socio- Economic Planning at Tsukuba University in Japan.

He holds a Ph.D. in political science from York University, an M.A. in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a B.A.H. in economics and history from the University of Toronto. He has published widely on foreign policy, political culture, international economic relations, regional integration, and related subjects.

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Conveners Dr. Kenneth Holland is Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Center for International Development at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and M.A. in Government and International Relations from the University of Virginia. He has held previous academic positions at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Vermont, the University of Memphis and Kansas State University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan and the University of Calgary in Canada and a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He is the winner of three research awards and has published 8 books and more than 60 refereed articles and edited five special issues of internationally known journals. Dr. Holland is the Immediate Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. He is a frequent visitor to Iraq, where he directs partnerships funded by the U.S. Department of State with Tikrit University, Baghdad University of Technology and the Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq.

Ball State's Center for International Development (CID) serves as a unifying resource for faculty members with shared interests in alleviating poverty and contributing to the economic and social development of the world's most fragile and needy countries.

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Conveners Dr. Christopher Kirkey, B.A. Honours and M.A. (Queen’s University) & Ph.D. (Brandeis University), is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, where he holds a concurrent position as full professor of political science. Previous academic and professional appointments include Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (2001-2013), Associate Professor of Political Science/Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State University (1993-2002), and Mine Action Scholar-in-Residence at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (1999-2002).

A scholar of comparative foreign policy and international relations theory, his recent works include a co-edited special issue (with Tony McCulloch) of the British Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol.28 Issue 2, September 2015); (with Michael Hawes) “Systemic Forces and Canadian Foreign Policy,” in Duane Bratt and Christopher Kukucha, eds. Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2015); the co-edited Winter 2016 special issue on Quebec (with Cheryl Gosselin) of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies (Vol.45 Fall 2015); the co-edited special issue (with Michael Hawes) “CONNECT/Fulbright Canada – New Scholars Issue,” of the American Review of Canadian Studies (Vol.44 No.3 September 2014), the co-edited John W. Holmes issue (with Kenneth Holland) “Canada in Afghanistan,” of International Journal (Vol.68 No.2, June 2013); and, the co-edited Winter 2013 special issue (with Stéphan Gervais and Jarrett Rudy) of Québec Studies.

He is currently working on several projects, including: a second edition (co-edited with Gervais and Rudy) of Quebec Questions: Quebec Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press); a book volume (co-edited with Hawes) titled Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Oxford University Press); and, co-editor (with Hawes and Holland) of upcoming special issues of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal and the American Review of Canadian Studies. Dr. Kirkey serves on the editorial board of the American Review of Canadian Studies, Québec Studies, the International Journal of Canadian Studies, and the London Journal of Canadian Studies. He is Special Counsel to the President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, as well as a member of the Fulbright National Student Screening Committee and the Fulbright Scholar Program on Canada for Research Chairs.

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Conveners Dr. Denise Eby Konan is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM). As Dean, she provides leadership to twelve academic departments that provide 15 to 20 percent of student semester hours and degrees awarded by the university, as well as 10 to 15 percent of the majors.

Dr. Konan has long been active in local economic research.

She is a Research Fellow at the University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), where she previously served as the Director of the Energy & Greenhouse Gas Solutions (EGGS) research program, which specialized in issues of energy and greenhouse gas emissions reduction in Hawai'i. She also is the founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Coastal Tourism at the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program. The center promotes respect for the culture, environment, and economy of Hawai'i and other coastal visitor destinations through research, education, and outreach.

A noted international trade economist, Konan has worked extensively in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. She has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Arab League, and governments of Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Hawai'i and publishes on issues of regional economic integration, trade in services, intellectual property rights, foreign direct investment and energy.

Konan also serves as the academic lead for the university’s Daniel K. Inouye Center for Democratic Leadership. Currently in the development stage, when complete the center will house academic programs that will advance public awareness of U.S. history and government, public service leadership, democratic ideals and global awareness through visiting and resident experts, communications programs and exhibits, public engagement and educational programs – particularly for K-12, lectures and other civic engagement efforts.

An award winning teacher, Dean Konan is also a Leadership Fellow with Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibility (SENCER) of National Science Foundation, and a board member of the Asia Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (APDR3) Network. Dr. Konan served for two years as the Interim Chancellor and for three years as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of UHM. She received her undergraduate degree from Goshen College and her doctorate from the University of Colorado.

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Participants Mr. Kawser Ahmed was commissioned in the Bangladesh Army in 1990 and served till April, 2010. He is a graduate of Defence Services Command and Staff College, Dhaka, and an alumnus of the National Defence University in Washington. He earned his Mphil from the Department of Social Science, University of Dhaka. He also served as a peacekeeper in the UN mission for Western Sahara. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba. He is affiliated with the Terrorism and Political Violence Association (TAPVA) at the University of Leeds, UK and a junior research affiliate in the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS). His research interests include: non-violent conflict resolution, conflict intervention, counter-terrorism and counter radicalization, and faith and community based organization in peacebuilding. He has been awarded with the UN Medal for Peacekeeping and he is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellow.

Dr. Patrick Belanger is Assistant Professor of Humanities & Communication at California State University, Monterey Bay. Drawn to the challenge of bridging diverse publics, he researches the interface of communication, culture, and power. His current work explores communicative approaches to peacebuilding. He has a BA and MA from Simon Fraser University and a PhD (Communication) from the University of Southern California. Patrick was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Arthur Cockfield, HBA (Western Ivey School of Business), LL.B (Queen’s), JSM and JSD (Stanford), is a Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law where he was appointed as a Queen’s National Scholar. Prior to joining Queen’s, he worked as a lawyer in Toronto and as a law professor in San Diego. He is a senior research fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and has been a Fulbright Visiting Chair in Policy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cockfield has authored books, articles and book chapters that focus on tax law as well as law and technology theory and privacy law. He is Associate Director of the Queen’s Surveillance Studies Centre and is the recipient of a number of fellowships, external research grants, and prizes, including the Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award. Professor Cockfield has served as a legal consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations, the Department of Justice (Canada)(anti-terrorism and constitutional law groups), the Department of Finance, the Office of the Auditor General and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Dr. Steven Engler studies methods and theories in the comparative study of religions, with a focus on religions in Brazil. He is Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Affiliate Professor of Religion at Concordia University in Montréal, and Professor Colaborador at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He is coeditor, with Michael Stausberg, of the journal Religion, The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion (2011) and The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (2016) and co-editor, with Bettina Schmidt, of The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil (2016). See http://stevenengler.ca

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Biographical Information for the Colloquium Participants

Dr. James Fergusson is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies and a Research Fellow with the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He teaches a range of courses in the fields of international relations, strategic studies, Canada-US defence relations, and Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy. His recent publications include Left of Bang: North American Maritime Domain Awareness and NORAD”s Maritime Early Warning Missions co-authored with Andrea Charron and Nicholas Allarie (Centre for Defence and Security Studies, 2015), “The NORAD Conundrum: Canada, missile defence and military space” International Journal. 70:2. June 2015; Perspectives of Muslim-Faith, Ethno-Cultural Community Based and Student Organizations in Countering Domestic Terrorism in Canada, co-authored with Kawser Ahmed and Alexander Salt (TSAS, 2014); “Ballistic Missile Defence: NATO’s European Phased Adaptive Approach” Atlantisch Perspectief. 4: 2013; “The Right Debate: Airpower, the Future of War, Canada’s Strategic Interests and the F-35 Decision.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Winter 2012; Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence 1954-2009: Déjà vu all over again, Canadian War Museum Military History Series. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010.

Dr. Cheryl Gosselin has been teaching in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University for the past 25 years. Among the variety of courses she teaches her favorites are Sociology of Tourism, Sociology of the Body, Urban Sociology as well as Quebec Society which all students majoring in the discipline are required to take. Her research interests include immigration, the Englishspeaking communities of Quebec as a linguistic minority and the intersecting borders of space and identity among majority – minority groups. Cheryl is a strong advocate for the rights of Quebec’s linguistic minority and ethno-cultural groups in her capacity as a board member for two lobby groups in her community.

Dr. Nicole Sunday Grove is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, and Affiliate Faculty in the Hawaiʻi Research Center for Futures Studies and the International Cultural Studies Program. She received my PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in May 2015, where she focused on international relations, political theory, and new media theory. To date her research has centered on new algorithmic interventions in geopolitics and novel forms of securitization emerging alongside the use and development of communications technologies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is also interested in the intersections between new media, security, and gender and sexuality across geographical and digital spaces. Her work has been published in Security Dialogue, Globalizations, and the Journal of Critical Globalization Studies.

Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and the founder of Women in International Security-Canada. Prior to her appointment at Queen’s, she was a visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich’s Center for Security Studies. Dr. von Hlatky was also a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies and a

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policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has published American Allies in Times of War: The Great Asymmetry with Oxford University Press in 2013 and The Future of Extended Deterrence: The United States, NATO and Beyond with Georgetown University Press in 2015 (co-edited with Andreas Wenger). She obtained her PhD in political science from the University of Montreal where she was also executive director for the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Southern California’s Centre for Public Diplomacy.

Dr. Frank P. Harvey is Chair of the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University and currently holds the Eric Dennis Chair of Government and Politics. He served as Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2011-2013), held the 2007 J. William Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies, is a former Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, and is a Research Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.�

Dr. Steve Hewitt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and is past president of the British Association for Canadian Studies. He has written extensively on security and intelligence, including counter-terrorism, in the past and present and in a US, Canada, and UK context. His publications include The British War on Terror: Terrorism and Counterterrorism on the Home Front since 9/11 and Snitch: A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer. Currently, he is working on a history of terrorism and counter-terrorism in Canada that will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Dr. Julie Holland is an Assistant Professor at Ball State University. She received her Ed.D. and M.A.T. from the University of Memphis and B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

She worked as a researcher at the Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis, a study abroad advisor in the International Programs Office at Kansas State University and project coordinator at the Center for International Development at Ball State University.

She has been a key expert in development projects funded by the World Bank and U.S. Department of State in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Recently she was recognized by the World Bank for increasing the percentage of female students at the National Institute for Management and Administration in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 20 to 40 per cent.

Dr. Tami Amanda Jacoby is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her expertise is in the area of Middle East Politics, Arab-Israeli conflict, gender, identity politics and terrorism. Her publications include Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel, Redefining Security in the Middle East, Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement and numerous articles on terrorism and liberal democracy, foreign policy after the Arab Spring, grievance-based identity and jihadi brides. She is currently co-editing a book-length manuscript on Middle Eastern diasporas in North America.

Dr. Christian Leuprecht is Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. He holds a Governor-in-Council appointment to the governing Council of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

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of Canada, is president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, and a United Nations Security Structure Expert. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies and the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University where he is also a fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy. An expert on security and defence, political demography, and comparative federalism and multilevel governance, he is regularly called as an expert witness to testify before committees of Parliament. His award-winning publications have appeared in English, German, French, and Spanish. His publications include 9 books and scores of articles that have appeared in Armed Forces and Society (2015), Global Crime (2015, 2013), the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014, Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article), Canadian Public Administration (2014), the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2011, 2016).

His editorials appear regularly across Canada’s national newspapers and he is a frequent commentator in domestic and international media.

Dr. Pierre Martin is a Professor of political science at the Université de Montréal and a research fellow at CÉRIUM, where he holds the Chair in American Political and Economic Studies. He is also a member and past director of the UdeM-McGill Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). He specializes in American politics, international relations and political economy. He held visiting appointments at Harvard (where he was a Fulbright Scholar and held the Mackenzie King Chair), the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute (Washington) and the Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has authored more than sixty articles in journals or volumes, and has edited six books. He is a regular contributor to the media in both English and French and is currently a weekly columnist and blogger with the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec.

Dr. Justin Massie is Associate Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Senior Fellow at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (CIRRICQ). His current research focuses on burdensharing in contemporary multinational military interventions. He is the author of numerous papers on Canadian foreign and defense policy, including his latest book: Francosphère: L’importance de la France dans la culture stratégique du Canada (Montréal, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2013).

Dr. Cindy May is a lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London (UK).

Prior to joining KCL Cindy completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her doctoral thesis examined the American use of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilizing the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studies. Prior to her doctoral work Cindy received a B.A. in Politics, International Studies, and Spanish from Butler University (USA) and a MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (UK). Cindy has previously worked on two occasions at the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Political and Military Affairs Bureau. Her research interests include U.S. Foreign Policy, Middle East Politics, and Terrorism.

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Dr. Kevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His book, Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences (University of Chicago Press) won the United States Supreme Court Historical Society’s Erwin N. Griswold Prize in 2014. His first book, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press) won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published on the American presidency. In 2006, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Montreal.

Dr. Baljit Nagra is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. She previously held a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellowship at York University after receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. Her research aims to understand how racial discourses are rearticulated in the War on Terror'. Her intellectual interest is in learning how racial boundaries are transformed through a language of gender, religion and security, creating legitimate/desirable' and illegitimate/undesirable' members of westerns nations, and reproducing past racialized nation state projects. Her research has been published in international refereed journals and she is presently working on a book manuscript titled: The Reclaiming of Muslim Identities: Canadian Experiences of Race Relations Post 9/11. At the University of Ottawa, she is conducting a nationwide study that measures the impact of counter terrorism policies on Muslim communities in Canada. Her main areas of interest are in Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, National Security and Surveillance, Gender Studies and Qualitative Research.

Dr. Jody Neathery-Castro is Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department.

She received her Ph.D. (1998) and M.A. (1995) from Rice University, and B.A. from Texas Christian University (1990). She teaches courses in comparative politics and international relations. Her current research examines the role of gender, culture and identity in politics, in contexts as varied as the Turkish educational system and the global economic system. Her recent research has appeared in Canadian Foreign Policy and The French Review. Her pedagogical research in the areas of service learning and civic education appears in Academic Exchange Quarterly and Metropolitan Universities Journal. She is the recipient of the 2011 UNO Arts & Sciences Excellence in Service Award, the 2007 UNO Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2007 UNO Arts & Sciences Alumni Teaching Award, and the 2001 UNO Service Learning Academy Faculty Award. She is a Fellow in the University of Nebraska-Omaha's Social Media Lab where she is currently conducting research on international violent extremist groups and the gendered aspects of radicalization.

Dr. Kim Richard Nossal is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University. He is the author of a number of works on Canadian foreign and defence policy. His latest book, The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th edition, with Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Paquin, was published in November 2015 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. At present he is working with Jean-Christophe Boucher on a book on the domestic politics of Canada’s Afghanistan mission.

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Dr. Stéphane Paquin is tenured professor at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) where he is the director of the GERIQ (Groupe d’études sur l’international et le Québec) and a member of the CIRRICQ (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec). He has received numerous awards, including a Canada research Chair in International and Comparative Political Economy, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Québec Studies, State University of New York. He was also selected in 2008 in the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program of the US government. He has taught in many universities including Northwestern University in Chicago and Sciences Po in Paris. In 2014, he was the President of the local organizing committee of the World congress of political science in Montréal (IPSA). He has written or co-written 20 books including Theories of International Political Economy (Toronto, Oxford University Press 2015). He has also published in several journals including: International Journal, International Negotiation, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Revue canadienne d'administration publique, and Études internationales.

Mr. Benjamin Perryman is a doctoral candidate at Yale Law School and a Trudeau Scholar.

Benjamin is also a Schulich Fellow at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, where he teaches contract law. He is called to the Bars of Ontario and Nova Scotia and currently sits as a human rights adjudicator in Nova Scotia. Benjamin researches and writes in the areas of public law and international law, with a focus on law & politics as well as happiness & constitutional law.

Dr. Stéphane Roussel is Professor at École nationale d’Administration publique (ENAP). He is the director of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (CIRRICQ). From 2002 to 2012, he was Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where he held the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy. He graduated from Université de Montréal (Ph.D., 1999). Professor Roussel was president of the ISA-Canada section in 2004-2005 and served as president of the Société Québécoise de Science Politique (SQSP) in 2010-2011. He works regularly with the Canadian Armed Forces, including at the Canadian Forces College (CFC), Toronto). His books include The politics of Canadian Foreign Policy (McGill-Queen’s, 4th ed. 2015), Culture stratégique et politique de défense; l’expérience canadienne (Athéna, 2007), and L’aide canadienne au développement, with François Audet and Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008).

Dr. Nandita Sharma is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and the Director of UHM's International Cultural Studies Program. She is the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006), as well as co-editor of special issues of several journals, including No Borders as Practical Politics in Refuge (2009) and “Borders, Transborders, No Borders: Problematizing The “Figure Of The Migrant,” in Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal (2015).

Nandita's research interests address themes of human migration, migrant labour, national state power, ideologies of racism and nationalism, processes of identification and self-understanding, and social movements for justice.

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Dr. Nevzat Soguk is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and Adjunct Professor of Global Politics at the Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. He was formerly the Deputy Director of Global Cities Research Institute, at RMIT University. At the University of Hawaii, Manoa he served as the Chair of Political Science from August 2009 to January 2012. During his UH years, he has published two single author books, States and States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) and Globalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). He is the co-editor of four books including the latest Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations, co-edited with Scott Nelson, Ashgate, , 2016. Recently, he edited the special issue of Globalizations (Vol. 12, No. 6) on “Insurrectional Politics.”

Dr. Lasha Tchantouridzé is Associate Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Diplomacy and IR, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. He is also a Davis Center Associate, Harvard University, Boston, MA, and a research fellow, the Center for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He earned his PhD in International Relations from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Tchantouridzé’s academic publications are in the areas of geopolitics, Russian foreign policy, Canadian foreign policy, the Arctic, the Black Sea basin, international politics in the Caucasus, and NATO-Russia relations.

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