Taylor Owen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5689977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Taylor Owen |
| PRENOMES | Taylor |
| SOBRENOME | Owen |
| ASSINATURA | OWEN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1848-187X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 189 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Infodemic Pathways
The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred alongside a worldwide infodemic where unprecedented levels of misinformation have contributed to widespread misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. Conspiracy theories, poorly sourced medical advice, and information trivializing the virus have ignored national borders and spread quickly. This information spread has occurred despite generally strong preferences for domestic national media and social media net…
All in This Together? A Preregistered Report on Deservingness of Government Aid During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on governments to engage in widespread cash transfers directly to citizens to help mitigate economic losses. Major and near-universal redistribution efforts have been deployed, but there is remarkably little understanding of where the mass public believes financial support is warranted. Using experimental evidence, we evaluate whether considerations related to deservingness, similarity, and …
The causes and consequences of Covid-19 misperceptions
We investigate the relationship between media consumption, misinformation, and important attitudes and behaviours during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We find that comparatively more misinformation circulates on Twitter, while news media tends to reinforce public health recommendations like social distancing. We find that exposure to social media is associated with misperceptions regarding basic facts about COVID-19
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus
The COVID-19 pandemic requires an effort to coordinate the actions of government and society in a way unmatched in recent history. Individual citizens need to voluntarily sacrifice economic and social activity for an indefinite period of time to protect others. At the same time, we know that public opinion tends to become polarized on highly salient issues, except when political elites are in consensus (Berinsky, 2009; Zaller, 1992). Avoiding eli…
Does noticing energy infrastructure influence public support for energy development? Evidence from a national survey in Canada
World Won't Wait
Journalism After Snowden
This book analyzes the implications of the Snowden affair for journalism and the role of the profession as a watchdog for the public good. Integrating discussions of media, law, surveillance, technology, and national security, Journalism After Snowden offers a much-needed assessment of the promises and perils for journalism in the digital age.
Global Media Power
The networked state and the end of 20th century diplomacy
Digital technology is shifting power balances in the international system from hierarchical state-based structures to decentralized networks. This is both empowering a new layer of actors in the global system, and threatening the organizations and states that risk losing control. In order to explore the nature of statecraft and diplomacy in this new nebulous digital space, this article will do three things. First, I will outline the discourse on …
The World Won't Wait
In The World Won’t Wait , some of Canada’s brightest thinkers present essays on both classic foreign policy issues such as international security, human rights, and global institutions and emerging issues like internet governance, climate change, and sustainable development.
Introduction
Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia, and Weighing Their Implications
Debate over the nature and impact of civilian casualties from U.S. aerial attacks continues. “Are we creating more terrorists than we're killing?,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once asked of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and of its offshoot ISIS, suggests the answer there. Reflecting in 2012 on U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, the former director of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, Robert Greiner, wrote: “One wonders…
Human securitization of water? A case study of the Indus Waters Basin
In the large and growing literature on hydropolitics, insecurity generated through water-related conflicts is most often conceptualized under a model of economic resource scarcity. Conflict is generally reduced to the question of who has water, who needs water and thus what cost, in economic, political or military terms, is appropriate to acquiring access to water. This article argues that while such analyses effectively chart the central resourc…
Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is “going badly,” according to the New York Times. Nine years after American forces invaded to oust the repressive Taliban regime and its Al-Qaeda ally, “the deteriorating situation demands a serious assessment now of the military and civilian strategies.” Aerial bombardment, a centrepiece of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, has had a devastating impact on civilians there. Along with Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurg…
The second generation of human security
The concept of human security, while much contested in both academic and policy debates, and highly fragmented across different meanings and forms of implementation, offers a potential locus around which global security discourse might converge, particularly in light of current shifts in US security thinking. However, key pioneers of human security, such as the United Nations and Canada, appear to be losing their enthusiasm for the concept, just …
The Critique That Doesn't Bite
Between Metaphor and Strategy
Canada's mission in Afghanicstan has evolved considerably. What began as a contribution to operation Fnduring Freedom in the aftermath of 9/11 has since transformed into postconflict reconstruction, counterin s urgency warfare, and nationbuilding. Yet even as the nature of the mission has changed, its justification has remained the same. Three successive governments have emphasized that it both secures national interests and projects humanitarian…
The uncertain future of human security in the UN
Since its original articulation in the 1994 Human Development Report, the concept of human security has been widely used to understand and address post-Cold War threats to international peace and security. However, a review of policy documents using the concept in the United Nations (UN) system finds that human security is at risk of disappearing from the organisational landscape. I argue that this is a result of three interrelated problems with …
Bombs Over Cambodia
On December 9, 1970, US President Richard Nixon telephoned his national-security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to discuss the ongoing bombing of Cambodia. This sideshow to the war in Vietnam, begun in 1965 under the Johnson administration, had already seen 475,515 tons of ordnance dropped on Cambodia, which had been a neutral kingdom until nine months before the phone call, when pro-US General Lon Nol seized power. The first intense series of bombing…
Sense and Symbolism
human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and of the victories of the Righteous Cause, we have still not found Peace or Security. --Winston Churchill Europe, as identity and union, has undergone an extraordinary transformation since the end of Cold War. In recent history, much of this remarkable change has only accelerated, both with the expansion of membership in th…
Book Notes
Conflicts over shared rivers
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS
A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmenta…
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS
A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmenta…
Human Security - Conflict, Critique and Consensus
The aim of the colloquium in this issue of Security Dialogue was to both summarize and advance the rich but scattered literature on human security. The result is a microcosm of the ten-year academic debate, told through the condensed perspectives of many of the people who shaped it. This article first summarizes the 21 thoughtful and innovative commentaries, and identifies three principle themes: the theoretical broad-versus-narrow debate, human …
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus
The COVID-19 pandemic requires an effort to coordinate the actions of government and society in a way unmatched in recent history. Individual citizens need to voluntarily sacrifice economic and social activity for an indefinite period of time to protect others. At the same time, we know that public opinion tends to become polarized on highly salient issues, except when political elites are in consensus (Berinsky, 2009; Zaller, 1992). Avoiding eli…
Human Security - Conflict, Critique and Consensus
The aim of the colloquium in this issue of Security Dialogue was to both summarize and advance the rich but scattered literature on human security. The result is a microcosm of the ten-year academic debate, told through the condensed perspectives of many of the people who shaped it. This article first summarizes the 21 thoughtful and innovative commentaries, and identifies three principle themes: the theoretical broad-versus-narrow debate, human …
Conflicts over shared rivers
Does noticing energy infrastructure influence public support for energy development? Evidence from a national survey in Canada
The second generation of human security
The concept of human security, while much contested in both academic and policy debates, and highly fragmented across different meanings and forms of implementation, offers a potential locus around which global security discourse might converge, particularly in light of current shifts in US security thinking. However, key pioneers of human security, such as the United Nations and Canada, appear to be losing their enthusiasm for the concept, just …
All in This Together? A Preregistered Report on Deservingness of Government Aid During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on governments to engage in widespread cash transfers directly to citizens to help mitigate economic losses. Major and near-universal redistribution efforts have been deployed, but there is remarkably little understanding of where the mass public believes financial support is warranted. Using experimental evidence, we evaluate whether considerations related to deservingness, similarity, and …
Infodemic Pathways
The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred alongside a worldwide infodemic where unprecedented levels of misinformation have contributed to widespread misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. Conspiracy theories, poorly sourced medical advice, and information trivializing the virus have ignored national borders and spread quickly. This information spread has occurred despite generally strong preferences for domestic national media and social media net…
Human securitization of water? A case study of the Indus Waters Basin
In the large and growing literature on hydropolitics, insecurity generated through water-related conflicts is most often conceptualized under a model of economic resource scarcity. Conflict is generally reduced to the question of who has water, who needs water and thus what cost, in economic, political or military terms, is appropriate to acquiring access to water. This article argues that while such analyses effectively chart the central resourc…
The Critique That Doesn't Bite
The networked state and the end of 20th century diplomacy
Digital technology is shifting power balances in the international system from hierarchical state-based structures to decentralized networks. This is both empowering a new layer of actors in the global system, and threatening the organizations and states that risk losing control. In order to explore the nature of statecraft and diplomacy in this new nebulous digital space, this article will do three things. First, I will outline the discourse on …
Between Metaphor and Strategy
Canada's mission in Afghanicstan has evolved considerably. What began as a contribution to operation Fnduring Freedom in the aftermath of 9/11 has since transformed into postconflict reconstruction, counterin s urgency warfare, and nationbuilding. Yet even as the nature of the mission has changed, its justification has remained the same. Three successive governments have emphasized that it both secures national interests and projects humanitarian…
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS
A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmenta…
Human Security - Conflict, Critique and Consensus
The aim of the colloquium in this issue of Security Dialogue was to both summarize and advance the rich but scattered literature on human security. The result is a microcosm of the ten-year academic debate, told through the condensed perspectives of many of the people who shaped it. This article first summarizes the 21 thoughtful and innovative commentaries, and identifies three principle themes: the theoretical broad-versus-narrow debate, human …
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS
A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmenta…
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS
A new methodology for measuring human security is presented. The three stages of the methodology are: i) threat assessment, ii) data collection and organization, and iii) data visualization and analysis, using Geographic Information Systems. Results from a Cambodia case study are highlighted. The United Nations Development Program's notion of human security, which gives equal weight to economic, health, food, political, personal, and environmenta…
Sense and Symbolism
human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and of the victories of the Righteous Cause, we have still not found Peace or Security. --Winston Churchill Europe, as identity and union, has undergone an extraordinary transformation since the end of Cold War. In recent history, much of this remarkable change has only accelerated, both with the expansion of membership in th…
Book Notes
Conflicts over shared rivers
Bombs Over Cambodia
On December 9, 1970, US President Richard Nixon telephoned his national-security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to discuss the ongoing bombing of Cambodia. This sideshow to the war in Vietnam, begun in 1965 under the Johnson administration, had already seen 475,515 tons of ordnance dropped on Cambodia, which had been a neutral kingdom until nine months before the phone call, when pro-US General Lon Nol seized power. The first intense series of bombing…
The Critique That Doesn't Bite
Between Metaphor and Strategy
Canada's mission in Afghanicstan has evolved considerably. What began as a contribution to operation Fnduring Freedom in the aftermath of 9/11 has since transformed into postconflict reconstruction, counterin s urgency warfare, and nationbuilding. Yet even as the nature of the mission has changed, its justification has remained the same. Three successive governments have emphasized that it both secures national interests and projects humanitarian…
The uncertain future of human security in the UN
Since its original articulation in the 1994 Human Development Report, the concept of human security has been widely used to understand and address post-Cold War threats to international peace and security. However, a review of policy documents using the concept in the United Nations (UN) system finds that human security is at risk of disappearing from the organisational landscape. I argue that this is a result of three interrelated problems with …
Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is “going badly,” according to the New York Times. Nine years after American forces invaded to oust the repressive Taliban regime and its Al-Qaeda ally, “the deteriorating situation demands a serious assessment now of the military and civilian strategies.” Aerial bombardment, a centrepiece of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, has had a devastating impact on civilians there. Along with Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurg…
The second generation of human security
The concept of human security, while much contested in both academic and policy debates, and highly fragmented across different meanings and forms of implementation, offers a potential locus around which global security discourse might converge, particularly in light of current shifts in US security thinking. However, key pioneers of human security, such as the United Nations and Canada, appear to be losing their enthusiasm for the concept, just …
Human securitization of water? A case study of the Indus Waters Basin
In the large and growing literature on hydropolitics, insecurity generated through water-related conflicts is most often conceptualized under a model of economic resource scarcity. Conflict is generally reduced to the question of who has water, who needs water and thus what cost, in economic, political or military terms, is appropriate to acquiring access to water. This article argues that while such analyses effectively chart the central resourc…
The World Won't Wait
In The World Won’t Wait , some of Canada’s brightest thinkers present essays on both classic foreign policy issues such as international security, human rights, and global institutions and emerging issues like internet governance, climate change, and sustainable development.
Introduction
Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia, and Weighing Their Implications
Debate over the nature and impact of civilian casualties from U.S. aerial attacks continues. “Are we creating more terrorists than we're killing?,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once asked of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and of its offshoot ISIS, suggests the answer there. Reflecting in 2012 on U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, the former director of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, Robert Greiner, wrote: “One wonders…
Global Media Power
The networked state and the end of 20th century diplomacy
Digital technology is shifting power balances in the international system from hierarchical state-based structures to decentralized networks. This is both empowering a new layer of actors in the global system, and threatening the organizations and states that risk losing control. In order to explore the nature of statecraft and diplomacy in this new nebulous digital space, this article will do three things. First, I will outline the discourse on …
Journalism After Snowden
This book analyzes the implications of the Snowden affair for journalism and the role of the profession as a watchdog for the public good. Integrating discussions of media, law, surveillance, technology, and national security, Journalism After Snowden offers a much-needed assessment of the promises and perils for journalism in the digital age.
World Won't Wait
Does noticing energy infrastructure influence public support for energy development? Evidence from a national survey in Canada
The causes and consequences of Covid-19 misperceptions
We investigate the relationship between media consumption, misinformation, and important attitudes and behaviours during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We find that comparatively more misinformation circulates on Twitter, while news media tends to reinforce public health recommendations like social distancing. We find that exposure to social media is associated with misperceptions regarding basic facts about COVID-19
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus
The COVID-19 pandemic requires an effort to coordinate the actions of government and society in a way unmatched in recent history. Individual citizens need to voluntarily sacrifice economic and social activity for an indefinite period of time to protect others. At the same time, we know that public opinion tends to become polarized on highly salient issues, except when political elites are in consensus (Berinsky, 2009; Zaller, 1992). Avoiding eli…
Infodemic Pathways
The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred alongside a worldwide infodemic where unprecedented levels of misinformation have contributed to widespread misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. Conspiracy theories, poorly sourced medical advice, and information trivializing the virus have ignored national borders and spread quickly. This information spread has occurred despite generally strong preferences for domestic national media and social media net…
All in This Together? A Preregistered Report on Deservingness of Government Aid During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on governments to engage in widespread cash transfers directly to citizens to help mitigate economic losses. Major and near-universal redistribution efforts have been deployed, but there is remarkably little understanding of where the mass public believes financial support is warranted. Using experimental evidence, we evaluate whether considerations related to deservingness, similarity, and …
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