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An Update from TSAS Co-director, Dan Hiebert
 Summer has finally arrived across Canada and there is time to reflect on the last quarter of TSAS' second year. It was a period mainly dedicated to the viability of the TSAS network.
TSAS has continued to develop as a network, with three new affiliated individuals added in the period of record. There are now 48 senior researchers formally affiliated with TSAS, 44 graduate students (junior researchers), and 11 others (non-academic affiliates).
We held a major TSAS workshop in November (on national security and community relationships). In the January-March period we planned our next workshop, which took place on May 30, 2014. The workshop presented the 10 TSAS-funded preliminary research findings. The presentations may be found here. I am happy to report that we have hosted our first extended international visitor at TSAS, beginning in January this year; Benoit Gomis brings to TSAS his expertise in the area of international criminal networks and their relationship with the illicit drug trade. He spent the last few years conducting research at Chatham House, one of TSAS's partner organizations, and will undoubtedly be able to help us maintain that connection.
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Benoit Dupont: Director of SERENE-RISC Awarded $1.6 million
 TSAS counts many stars amongst its research affiliates and Professor Benoit Dupont stands out as a particularly brilliant one. A professor at Université de Montréal, he is the director of the Centre for Comparative Criminology and holds the Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology. He was recently awarded $1.6 million by the government of Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence for his network of experts in cyber security known as SERENE – RISC, the Smart cybERsEcurity Network.
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Presentations from the TSAS Preliminary Research Findings
 In 2012 TSAS issued the first Call for Proposals for new research projects. The applications received were reviewed by a committee that included academic researchers and government officials across several departments. TSAS funded 10 of the applications and researchers commenced work on their projects a year ago (in April 2013). And on May 30, 2014 the Principle Investigators of each project presented their preliminary findings to an audience in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Browse New Publications in TSAS Library
 TSAS continues to add new publications to the digital library. We hope that this resource will become of service to our affiliates.
One such entry includes a chapter by TSAS affiliate Alex Wilner, titled "Canada and the Arab Islamists: Plus ça change .…" It appears in The West and the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring, edited by Lorenzo Vidino, 2013.
Alex Wilner writes: "Canada is a curious political animal. It is a stalwart democracy and a leading economic and energy powerhouse, a founding member of the UN, NATO and the G7/8, and a member of both the Commonwealth of Nations (i.e. the British Commonwealth) and its French counterpart, Organisation international de la Francophonie. It has built, on its own terms, a special relationship with most of the world's great powers.... In sum, Canada is a widely respected international leader. And yet, paradoxically, despite its ability to influence, direct, and lead global affairs, Canada rarely does. It remains a cautious nation with a small and tidy international footprint. Nowhere is this more evident than in Canada's patchy (and at times, non-existent) relationship with the Islamist political forces currently rising in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)."
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Jordy Janssen: 2014 Summer Intern
 TSAS welcomes Jordy Janssen who will be working as an international intern from June through August 2014. Jordy hails from Hengelo, a small city in the east of the Netherlands. He Political Science at Leiden University and is specializing in International Relations and Organizations. Jordy has a particular interest in security issues and will continue to help build the TSAS digital library.
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Recommended Upcoming Events
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Canada's Future Policymakers and Academics
 TSAS has brought together some of Canada's best and brightest scholars in the field as affiliates of this network of academics and policymakers.
We invite you to support the next generation of researchers and policymakers by visiting the TSAS Blog today to read their articles. And we encourage our network members to engage these rising academics by challenging, encouraging and debating with them on the blog. It is only with your participation that our future professionals will understand the very real and important links that must be made between academia, government and society. We hope to read your responses soon!
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TSAS publishes events that it organizes, as well as other upcoming pertinent conferences, workshops and presentations around the world.
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