Stephanie Carvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Carvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Carvin |
| SIGNATURE | CARVIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3745-1468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Five years of Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Review Agency: Early successes, growing pains and unforced errors
Canada’s national security review system has been overhauled in recent years. In this article, we assess the evolution of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, a pillar of this reform. Based on 25 interviews with serving and retired practitioners in review and reviewed bodies,Footnote1 we find that the new agency has led to positive changes but is also beset by challenges. Some are inevitable growing pains. These, however, are wor…
Politics and intelligence analysis: The Canadian experience
Academic debate on the interplay between politics and intelligence is dominated by the U.S. experience. Our research, based on interviews with over sixty individuals in the Canadian intelligence and national security community and including political staffers, provides a new case study: that of Canada, a middle power with considerable access to intelligence through the Five Eyes partnership. We found that cases of hard politicization of intellige…
Why Aukus and not Caukus? It's a Potluck, not a Party
In September 2021, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced a new security arrangement, dubbed AUKUS, focused on helping Australia acquire nuclear submarines. This caused anxiety in Canada, especially as it emerged that Canadian officials had been caught unaware. In this paper, we argue that AUKUS 1.0 (now increasingly referred to as the first pillar) is not a problem for Canada, despite this early concern: Canada may need t…
How not to war
While the Cold War seemingly ended the prospect of nuclear annihilation, in the West it also brought about renewed belief in the utility of force. A warming international political environment and developments in precision technology (as demonstrated by the 1990-91 Gulf War) appeared to create a permissive environment in which western states, particularly the United States, armed with smart weapons, international resolutions and a capacity to eng…
How War in Yemen Transformed the Iran-Houthi Partnership
The war in Yemen has transformed the Iran-Houthi partnership. Iran has built significant influence in Yemen since 2015, but the Houthis are not a simple arm of its foreign policy: Iran has bandwagoned on Houthi successes as much as it has caused them. For Iran, supporting the Houthis is an appealing proposition: at a low cost, it has contributed to getting Saudi Arabia bogged down in a costly war. This article analyses the causes and consequences…
Made in Canada: The evolution of Canadian counter‐terrorism policy in the post‐9/11 world
Literature on Canada‐United States (US) counter‐terrorism (CT) cooperation from the early 2000s presumed that Canadian CT policy was driven by US security imperatives and fear, leaving little room for Canada to develop its own path in fighting terrorism. It presumed that: the Canadian government was more worried about the US reaction to terrorism than terrorism itself; Canadian security policy sought to be “separate but cooperative”; and Canadian…
Conventional Thinking? The 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Politics of Legal Restraints on Weapons during the Cold War
Though largely unknown, the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has been successful in many areas. The treaty remains in force today and has helped to regulate many types of weapons, including landmines, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons. Additionally, it has helped to clarify terms important for international legal norms, such as “unnecessary suffering” and “military necessity.” The CCW was the first treaty to regu…
Getting drones wrong
Over the last several years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in drones, their impact on armed conflict, and the ethics of using such unmanned weaponry. While this attention and inquiry is to be welcomed, an examination of this scholarship reveals that much of it frequently gets drones wrong – focusing too much on the questionable ‘newness’ of the technology, misunderstanding or misapplying the legal principles which govern such c…
The Trouble with Targeted Killing
Is targeted killing an effective counterterrorism tactic? Several studies published in academic journals over the last decade differ over the answer. While some believe that it is effective as a tactic within a larger counterterrorism strategy, others believe that it has no effect or possibly a negative effect in countering terrorism. This paper argues that although current studies may be valuable for understanding the impact of targeted killing …
The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity , by Antoine Bousquet; and Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations: The New Military Operating System , by Paul…
Since the end of the Second World War, military strategy has been viewed as the quest to obtain perfect information on the battlefield. The promise of obtaining and using such information faster th
A responsibility to reality: A reply to Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour presents a pleasant picture of international society in her article on ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) as a ‘duty of care’ – one where states not only have a moral responsibility but also a legal responsibility to intervene in some of the worst situations on the planet. However, this argument is misleading and based on faulty legal assumptions which pose significant problems for Arbour's case. This response will argue that upon ex…
Linking Purpose and Tactics: America and the Reconsideration of the Laws of War During the 1990s
The critique of the laws of war (and international law in general) coming out of America as the war on terror began seemed to have emerged as a response to the horror of 9/11 and the belief that the United States was now engaged in a “new paradigm” of warfare. However, the Bush administration’s argument needs to be situated in a wider historical context. The source of the arguments against applying the Geneva Conventions to the prisoners caught i…
In Times of War the Law is not so Silent
Howard M. Hensel (ed) The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force (Hampshire: Ashgate 2007) Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Susan Breau (ed) Perspectives on the ICRC S
Make Law Not War: Canada and the Challenge of International Law in the Age of Terror
I believe in peacekeeping, not policing! - or so went - the protagonist in the famous beer advertisement that played across television screens in April 2000. Presumably, Joe was upset at the failure of other nations to acknowledge the difference between Canada and the United States of America, including a difference in approaches towards the settling of international disputes. The same might have easily been said for approaches to international l…
The Trouble with Targeted Killing
Is targeted killing an effective counterterrorism tactic? Several studies published in academic journals over the last decade differ over the answer. While some believe that it is effective as a tactic within a larger counterterrorism strategy, others believe that it has no effect or possibly a negative effect in countering terrorism. This paper argues that although current studies may be valuable for understanding the impact of targeted killing …
How War in Yemen Transformed the Iran-Houthi Partnership
The war in Yemen has transformed the Iran-Houthi partnership. Iran has built significant influence in Yemen since 2015, but the Houthis are not a simple arm of its foreign policy: Iran has bandwagoned on Houthi successes as much as it has caused them. For Iran, supporting the Houthis is an appealing proposition: at a low cost, it has contributed to getting Saudi Arabia bogged down in a costly war. This article analyses the causes and consequences…
Getting drones wrong
Over the last several years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in drones, their impact on armed conflict, and the ethics of using such unmanned weaponry. While this attention and inquiry is to be welcomed, an examination of this scholarship reveals that much of it frequently gets drones wrong – focusing too much on the questionable ‘newness’ of the technology, misunderstanding or misapplying the legal principles which govern such c…
Conventional Thinking? The 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Politics of Legal Restraints on Weapons during the Cold War
Though largely unknown, the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has been successful in many areas. The treaty remains in force today and has helped to regulate many types of weapons, including landmines, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons. Additionally, it has helped to clarify terms important for international legal norms, such as “unnecessary suffering” and “military necessity.” The CCW was the first treaty to regu…
How not to war
While the Cold War seemingly ended the prospect of nuclear annihilation, in the West it also brought about renewed belief in the utility of force. A warming international political environment and developments in precision technology (as demonstrated by the 1990-91 Gulf War) appeared to create a permissive environment in which western states, particularly the United States, armed with smart weapons, international resolutions and a capacity to eng…
Made in Canada: The evolution of Canadian counter‐terrorism policy in the post‐9/11 world
Literature on Canada‐United States (US) counter‐terrorism (CT) cooperation from the early 2000s presumed that Canadian CT policy was driven by US security imperatives and fear, leaving little room for Canada to develop its own path in fighting terrorism. It presumed that: the Canadian government was more worried about the US reaction to terrorism than terrorism itself; Canadian security policy sought to be “separate but cooperative”; and Canadian…
Make Law Not War: Canada and the Challenge of International Law in the Age of Terror
I believe in peacekeeping, not policing! - or so went - the protagonist in the famous beer advertisement that played across television screens in April 2000. Presumably, Joe was upset at the failure of other nations to acknowledge the difference between Canada and the United States of America, including a difference in approaches towards the settling of international disputes. The same might have easily been said for approaches to international l…
Linking Purpose and Tactics: America and the Reconsideration of the Laws of War During the 1990s
The critique of the laws of war (and international law in general) coming out of America as the war on terror began seemed to have emerged as a response to the horror of 9/11 and the belief that the United States was now engaged in a “new paradigm” of warfare. However, the Bush administration’s argument needs to be situated in a wider historical context. The source of the arguments against applying the Geneva Conventions to the prisoners caught i…
In Times of War the Law is not so Silent
Howard M. Hensel (ed) The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force (Hampshire: Ashgate 2007) Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Susan Breau (ed) Perspectives on the ICRC S
The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity , by Antoine Bousquet; and Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations: The New Military Operating System , by Paul…
Since the end of the Second World War, military strategy has been viewed as the quest to obtain perfect information on the battlefield. The promise of obtaining and using such information faster th
A responsibility to reality: A reply to Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour presents a pleasant picture of international society in her article on ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) as a ‘duty of care’ – one where states not only have a moral responsibility but also a legal responsibility to intervene in some of the worst situations on the planet. However, this argument is misleading and based on faulty legal assumptions which pose significant problems for Arbour's case. This response will argue that upon ex…
The Trouble with Targeted Killing
Is targeted killing an effective counterterrorism tactic? Several studies published in academic journals over the last decade differ over the answer. While some believe that it is effective as a tactic within a larger counterterrorism strategy, others believe that it has no effect or possibly a negative effect in countering terrorism. This paper argues that although current studies may be valuable for understanding the impact of targeted killing …
Getting drones wrong
Over the last several years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in drones, their impact on armed conflict, and the ethics of using such unmanned weaponry. While this attention and inquiry is to be welcomed, an examination of this scholarship reveals that much of it frequently gets drones wrong – focusing too much on the questionable ‘newness’ of the technology, misunderstanding or misapplying the legal principles which govern such c…
Conventional Thinking? The 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Politics of Legal Restraints on Weapons during the Cold War
Though largely unknown, the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has been successful in many areas. The treaty remains in force today and has helped to regulate many types of weapons, including landmines, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons. Additionally, it has helped to clarify terms important for international legal norms, such as “unnecessary suffering” and “military necessity.” The CCW was the first treaty to regu…
Made in Canada: The evolution of Canadian counter‐terrorism policy in the post‐9/11 world
Literature on Canada‐United States (US) counter‐terrorism (CT) cooperation from the early 2000s presumed that Canadian CT policy was driven by US security imperatives and fear, leaving little room for Canada to develop its own path in fighting terrorism. It presumed that: the Canadian government was more worried about the US reaction to terrorism than terrorism itself; Canadian security policy sought to be “separate but cooperative”; and Canadian…
How War in Yemen Transformed the Iran-Houthi Partnership
The war in Yemen has transformed the Iran-Houthi partnership. Iran has built significant influence in Yemen since 2015, but the Houthis are not a simple arm of its foreign policy: Iran has bandwagoned on Houthi successes as much as it has caused them. For Iran, supporting the Houthis is an appealing proposition: at a low cost, it has contributed to getting Saudi Arabia bogged down in a costly war. This article analyses the causes and consequences…
How not to war
While the Cold War seemingly ended the prospect of nuclear annihilation, in the West it also brought about renewed belief in the utility of force. A warming international political environment and developments in precision technology (as demonstrated by the 1990-91 Gulf War) appeared to create a permissive environment in which western states, particularly the United States, armed with smart weapons, international resolutions and a capacity to eng…
Politics and intelligence analysis: The Canadian experience
Academic debate on the interplay between politics and intelligence is dominated by the U.S. experience. Our research, based on interviews with over sixty individuals in the Canadian intelligence and national security community and including political staffers, provides a new case study: that of Canada, a middle power with considerable access to intelligence through the Five Eyes partnership. We found that cases of hard politicization of intellige…
Why Aukus and not Caukus? It's a Potluck, not a Party
In September 2021, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced a new security arrangement, dubbed AUKUS, focused on helping Australia acquire nuclear submarines. This caused anxiety in Canada, especially as it emerged that Canadian officials had been caught unaware. In this paper, we argue that AUKUS 1.0 (now increasingly referred to as the first pillar) is not a problem for Canada, despite this early concern: Canada may need t…
Five years of Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Review Agency: Early successes, growing pains and unforced errors
Canada’s national security review system has been overhauled in recent years. In this article, we assess the evolution of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, a pillar of this reform. Based on 25 interviews with serving and retired practitioners in review and reviewed bodies,Footnote1 we find that the new agency has led to positive changes but is also beset by challenges. Some are inevitable growing pains. These, however, are wor…
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