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Barry Cooper, a fourth generation Albertan, was educated at Shawnigan
Lake School, the University of British Columbia and Duke University
(PhD, 1969). He taught at Bishop's University, McGill, and York
University before coming to the University of Calgary in 1981. He has
been a visiting professor in Germany and the United States. His
teaching and research has tried to bring the insights of Western
political philosophers to bear on contemporary issues, from the place
of technology and the media in Canada, to the debate over the
constitutional status of Quebec and Alberta, to current military and
security policy. Cooper has published 25 books and nearly 150 articles
and papers that reflect the dual focus of his work; most recently
(with Lydia Miljan) he wrote Hidden Agendas: How Canadian
Journalists Influence the News published by UBC Press (2003). In
the spring of 2004, New Political Religions: An Analysis of Modern
Terrorism was published by the University of Missouri Press. He
publishes a weekly column in the Calgary Herald and other
CanWest Global papers.
Cooper has lectured extensively in Europe, the United States, India,
Australia and China. He has received numerous on-going research
grants from public and private Canadian and American granting
agencies. In addition he has received two major awards, the Konrad
Adenauer Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, and a Killam
Research Fellowship.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Institute for
Health Economics, and of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
at the University of Calgary, and is a member of the Bohemian Club,
San Francisco, the Pennask Lake Fishing and Game Club, and the
Philadelphia Society.
Keywords: Terrorism, Canadian defence and security policy,
Canada-US relations.
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