The impact of COVID-19 both globally and in Canada has raised important questions about best practices with regard to global and domestic health surveillance, early warning and preparedness. Critical to an understanding of these issues is a clear-sighted appreciation of the interface between health security and national security. As the world embarks on an intense effort to explain the onset of the pandemic and to learn lessons from the global response, it will be vital to develop and sustain a public policy debate about the role of security and intelligence institutions in protecting societies against pandemic outbreaks. This essay series — designed to bridge academic and practitioner knowledge — aims to make a high-impact contribution to that debate.
Introduction
Preface: Lessons from the Pandemic
Ralph Goodale
Pandemics: The Need for New Thinking on Security
Aaron Shull and Wesley Wark
International Perspectives
US Intelligence, the Coronavirus and the Age of Globalized Challenges
Calder Walton
Building a Better Pandemic and Health Security Intelligence Response in Australia
Patrick F. Walsh
Battles of Influence: Deliberate Disinformation and Global Health Security
Michael S. Goodman and Filippa Lentzos
“Go Hard, Go Early”: Human Security, Economic Security and New Zealand’s Response to COVID-19
Joe Burton
Implications for Canadian National and International Security
COVID-19 and Geopolitics: Security and Intelligence in a World Turned Upside Down
Greg Fyffe
Governance: Institutions, Processes and People
Mel Cappe
A New Canadian National Security Doctrine Requires Wider and Deeper Public-Private Collaboration
Neil Desai
The Canadian Armed Forces and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: Defining a Role
Christian Leuprecht and Peter Kasurak
Pandemics and the Civil Liberties Dog that Barked Softly
Kent Roach
New Dimensions of Economic Security
Economic Resiliency and National Security in the COVID-19 Era
Mark Agnew and Perrin Beatty
Building Resiliency in Supply Chains Post-COVID-19
Bessma Momani
Looking toward the Future
Toward a Term-setting Future: Five Moves to Devassalize Canada
Irvin Studin
COVID-19 and Climate Change
John Cadham