csds bulletin
Newsletter of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies
2 March 2012

In this issue

• Goodbye and Thank You, Cathleen
• Helvey on the U.S. Rebalance Toward the Asia-Pacific
• Löwenheim on the Frontier of Jerusalem

• Mehmet Gurses on State Building and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq
• Mr. Hikmet Çetin on the Future of Afghanistan

• 2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize
• Call for papers - Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis

Goodbye and Thank You, Cathleen

As of March 1, the Centre's administrator, Cathleen Schmidt, has taken a new position in the office of the President. Cathleen has been an invaluable part of CSDS since 2006, and has been an enormous help to me personally over the past five years. In addition to managing all the Centre's financial transactions and event bookings, she has been responsible for planning and organizing NPSIA's annual World Issues Conference for high school students. Cathleen has done a tremendous job on that conference, and has grown it every year. The teachers and students rave about it, and its success has been due largely to her efforts. Cathleen has also provided first-rate conference support for many NPSIA faculty and research units. On behalf of all the Centre's faculty associates, researchers and students, I want to thank Cathleen for her invaluable service to CSDS and NPSIA and wish her the best of luck in her new position. I am delighted that she is moving on to bigger and better things, but she will be very sorely missed.

David Mendeloff

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Helvey on the U.S. Rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific

CSDS Special Seminar

You are cordially invited to attend an informal seminar hosted by CSDS this coming MONDAY, 5 March, with

David F. Helvey
Acting U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Security

who will be speaking on

"U.S. Rebalance Toward the Asia-Pacific: Spotlight on U.S.-China Relations"

Abstract:
With the January 2012 publication of the strategic guidance, "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense," the U.S. Department of Defense outlines its role in a whole-of-government rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region. As draw-downs continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will focus on a broader range of challenges and opportunities, including the security and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific. In his presentation, Mr. David Helvey discusses those challenges and opportunities, and the future of U.S. policy toward the region, particularly relations with China.

Bio:
Mr. David F. Helvey is the Acting Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Security (APSA/EA). Prior assignments in the Office of the Secretary of Defense include Principal Deputy (APSA/EA), Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and Country Director for China. From August 1998 to October 2004, Mr. Helvey was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as a China military-political affairs analyst in the China Strategic Issues Division, Office of China and East Asia. From June 2003 to October 2004, Mr. Helvey served as DIA's Senior Intelligence Analyst for China military-political affairs. While assigned to DIA, Mr. Helvey performed tours in OSD/ISA and the Joint Staff J2 (Intelligence). From September 1996 to August 1998, Mr. Helvey was employed as a Policy Analyst with ANSER, Inc's Congressional Analysis Team. His duties included research and analytic support to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) Power Projection Division. From February 1998 to August 1998, Mr. Helvey was assigned to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) Staff Group.

Time and Location:
Monday, 5 March 2012
4:00 - 5:30 pm
NPSIA Boardroom, 5302 River Building
 

Light refreshments will be provided.
Seating is limited.
Please let us know in advance if you will attend by registering.

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Löwenheim on the Frontier of Jerusalem

CSDS Speaker Series

"The Politics of the Trail: Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem"

Oded Löwenheim
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In this talk, Oded Löwenheim presents an autoethnographic story of his daily mountain bicycle rides along the frontier of Jerusalem. Each day, when he commutes from his home at Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem, to Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, he passes along various symbols, evidence and debris of past, present, and future violence and conflict: the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians; two depopulated Palestinian villages from the 1948 war; a house in which seven Jews were brutally massacred by their Palestinian neighbours in the 1929 Riots; a railroad worksite which confiscates Palestinian agricultural land; the largest 9/11 memorial site outside the US; and a nuclear-proof bunker which is being built in order to provide shelter and "continuity of government" for the Israeli cabinet in case of an all-out war. Through relating the stories of these places and the people he meets along his 11 kilometer-long road, he ponders the culture of conflict in Israel and reflects on the moral, ethical and historical questions that this landscape presents.

Oded Löwenheim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A specialist in international relations theory, his research focuses on questions of authority in international relations, emotions and politics, international governmentality, and the micro-foundations of international politics. The latter is explored in his 2010 article in the Review of International Studies, "The 'I' in IR: An Autoethnographic Account."

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
4:00 to 5:30 pm
D382 Loeb Building
Carleton University

Light refreshments will be provided.

Registration is requested by Monday, 12 March 2012.

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Mehmet Gurses on Statebuilding and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq

From: Marie-Eve Desrosiers <Marie-Eve.Desrosiers@uOttawa.ca>
Subject: State Building and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq and Beyond / Talk by Mehmet Gurses / March 7, 12 - 1.30, DMS 3102

Dear colleagues,

The Fragile State Research Network at CIPS is pleased to invite you to the next event in its speaker series:

State Building and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq and Beyond

Event Date: March 7, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Location: Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Ave. E., Room 3102

Mehmet Gurses, Department of Political Science Florida Atlantic University
Presented by the Fragile State Research Network at CIPS.
Free. In English. No registration required. A light lunch will be served.

Mehmet Gurses has travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan twice in the last two years and conducted interviews with influential members of the Kurdish political elite. In addition he also spent months in Turkey conducting interviews with the leading members of the pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey together with informal talks with dozens of former PKK militants. He is currently an assistant professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his doctorate from University of North Texas. His research interests include democracy and democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, oil and democratization, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East. His publications have appeared in International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Civil Wars, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, and International Studies Perspectives.

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Mr. Hikmet Çetin on the Future of Afghanistan

From: Karen Howard <karen_howard@carleton.ca>

Subject: Flier - Hikmet Çetin

On the occasion of the March 18 Turkish Remembrance Day, The Turkish Embassy in Ottawa in collaboration with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Peace and Social Justice Foundation in Memory of Atilla Altikat Cordially invites you to a seminar on

The Future of Afghanistan by
Mr. Hikmet Çetin
NATO Secretary General's Former Senior Civilian Representative in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Former Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Former Minister of Turkey.

Friday, March 16, 2012 at 15.00 – 17.00 hrs.

Reception to follow.

Venue: The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Carleton University, 2228 River Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6

For more information please reach: 613-244-2479.

Please confirm your attendance with aysegul.ozcan@nsamfa.gov.tr.

Following H.E. Çetin’s talk, Ms. Sema Donna Kenan, President of “Peace and Social Justice Foundation in Memory of Atilla Altikat,” founded by the Turkish Canadians, would like to present a cheque of CAD 10,000.00 for the education of the children of the Canadian soldiers, who lost their lives while serving in Afghanistan.

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2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

From: Andrew Grant <andrew.grant@queensu.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers for 2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

ISA Canada is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2012 ISA Canada Student Paper Prize.

Value: $300.00

According to the terms of reference adopted by the membership of ISA Canada in March 2011, the ISA Canada Student Paper Prize is:

•     Open to all PhD students who are members of ISA and ISA-Canada
•     Open to PhD students in any of the disciplines that fall under the aegis of International Studies
•     To be awarded for a previously unpublished, single authored paper delivered at the ISA meeting in that   given year.
•     PhD dissertation chapters will be accepted if they are previously unpublished.
•     To be awarded to a paper written in either French or English.
•     To be awarded at the reception held by ISA-Canada at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association.
•     Papers must be received by the prize jury three weeks in advance of the ISA meeting.

In addition to the criteria above:

•     Submissions are to be no longer than 8000 words
•     Submissions will be evaluated for: originality, strength, clarity of argument, and contribution to the appropriate literature.
•     Submissions are due Monday, March 12, 2012.
•     Submissions will be made to members of the jury. Jury members will be announced by January 15, 2012.

Dr. J. Andrew Grant, Queen's University
Secretary/Sécrétaire, ISA-Canada
andrew.grant@queensu.ca

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Call for papers - Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis

From: Stephen Marrin <Stephen.Marrin@brunel.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis: Learning from Other Disciplines

This is a call for papers and presentations (CFP) for two events we are hosting this summer related to ?Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis: Learning from Other Disciplines.? The events will be held 8 June and 13 July 2012 at Brunel University in London.

The purpose of these two events is to engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion about the value of learning from other fields to improve both the understanding and the practice of intelligence analysis. It will also create the network and infrastructure for an international consortium for the study of intelligence analysis.

The event on 8 June 2012 will be devoted to what we can learn from the comparison between intelligence analysis and journalism since both fields involve the acquisition, evaluation, and dissemination of information.

The event on 13 July 2012 will be devoted to explaining how practitioners in a wider set of non-intelligence fields overcome challenges in their respective domains, to include medicine, the social and behavioural sciences, history and historiography, anthropology and other disciplines engaged in ethnographic research, econometric forecasting, and legal reasoning.

We welcome paper and presentation proposals evaluating best practices for overcoming challenges in any non-intelligence field that are analogous to those that exist in the intelligence field, or compares/contrasts challenges in intelligence analysis to those faced by professionals in other disciplines.

To submit a proposal, send an email to Stephen Marrin (stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk) by 18 March 2012 with: (1) Name of author/presenter, affiliation/institution and contact information (email and phone); and (2) Paper Title and Abstract (a brief 200-500 word overview of the paper/presentation).

Notifications of acceptances will be made on or before 1 April 2012.

Please let me know if you have any questions?

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Dr. Stephen Marrin
Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies
Department of Politics and History
Brunel University
Uxbridge (West London), England
stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/research/research-centres/bciss

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