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Biography
Wesley K. Wark (born 1952) was an associate professor in the History department at the University of Toronto.
Education
Wark earned a B.A. from Carleton Universityin 1975, an M.A. from Cambridge Universityin 1977 and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984.
Career
Wark was President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) in 1998-2000 and 2004-2006. He served on the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on National Security (2005-2009). He is also teaching as visiting research professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of University of Ottawa.
Wark is a frequent media commentator on national security and intelligence issues on contemporary security issues. Other scholarly interests include the popular culture of espionage in the contemporary history, the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism and modern and contemporary international relations. He was also a member of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Books
- Twenty-First Century Intelligence, Routledge, 2013 (editor)
- Espionage: Past, Present, Future? Elsevier, 1994 (editor)
- Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: New Perspectives for the 1990s, edited by Anthony Stuart Farson, David Stafford, Wesley K. Wark, Psychology Press, 1991
- Spy Fiction, Spy Films, and Real Intelligence, 1991 (editor)
- The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1985