Cyber Security and Emerging Threats Ryan Atkinson

Spying for Gadhafi: The Foreign Export of Surveillance Capabilities to Libya

In this article, Analyst and Editor Ryan Atkinson outlines the pervasive surveillance technologies used by the Gadhafi regime to spy on Libya’s population. Previously secret archives discovered after the fall of Tripoli in 2011 reveal the extent of the export of such technologies to the regime by foreign corporations.

Centre For Disinformation Studies Cyber Security and Emerging Threats Ryan Atkinson

Truth Makes You Free: A Special Report on Countering the Threat of Disinformation

In this special report, Ryan Atkinson outlines the problem disinformation poses to NATO, including an overview of the major steps member states are taking to counter the evolving threat.

Editors' Forum Julia Schaumer Justin Dell Marian Corera Ryan Atkinson

Regions in Review: Is Canada Taking Arctic Security Seriously?

The NATO Association of Canada’s program editors look at the Arctic as a region of growing strategic significance and consider if Canada, in particular, is giving it the security focus is deserves, either militarily, economically, or environmentally.

Justin Dell Ryan Atkinson Society, Culture, and Security

Donald Stovel Macdonald: Fixture of the Canadian Political Landscape

The NATO Association of Canada had the privilege of having the late Honourable Donald Stovel Macdonald (1932-2018) as its Chairman from 1998 to 2003. NAOC Program Editors, Ryan Atkinson and Justin Dell, look back on Macdonald’s life and the impact it had on the NATO Association of Canada and the Canadian people as a whole.

Claire Wahlen Editors' Forum Justin Dell Marian Corera Ryan Atkinson Taylor Allen

The Program Editors Weigh in on “Regions in Review”: The Eastern Mediterranean

On the Editor’s Forum, program editors at NAOC continue their case-by-case examination of different areas of the globe and identify their respective security contingencies. In this instalment, the Eastern Mediterranean is the region being reviewed.

Centre For Disinformation Studies Cyber Security and Emerging Threats Ryan Atkinson

Sorting Fact From Fiction: Trolls, Bots, and the Erosion of Informed Debate

Ryan Atkinson discusses the dangerous implications of future political influence operations, arguing that research must work to understand how current operations will incorporate advancing technologies.