This IRPP research program explores the complex challenges confronting Canada with regard to the post-9/11 security environment and its impact on domestic and international policies. The research addresses issues that are in many ways new to the country and to the formulation of Canadian national security policy, above all the threat posed by global, transnational terrorism. The program examines the interrelationships between new security demands and democratic norms, focusing in particular on the building blocks of a sound democratic model for national security.

Studies in progress:

• Does Canada need a foreign intelligence service?

Studies published to date:

• Better Late Than Never? The Canadian Parliamentary Review of the Anti-terrorism Act
  Kent Roach
  Choices, September 2007