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77 Int'l J. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/intj77 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction International Journal 2022, Vol. 77(1) 3-6 Editor's introduction © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.I177/00207020221118079 jou nal s.sage pub. corn/home/ijx $SAGE This issue of the journal contains five major scholarly essays, one Lessons of History essay, two very timely policy briefs, and seven critical book reviews. Matthew Wiseman kicks off the scholarly essays with a revealing unfolding of the establishment, after World War II, of a scientific intelligence bureau in Canada which was placed within the Defence Research Board of Canada and helped to augment the overall Canadian intelligence structure. This essay draws on the archival work of individuals like Donald Goodspeed, Jonathan Turner, Kurt Jensen, Alan Burnes, and Dan Middlemiss, all of whom were observational pioneers of Canada's efforts to improve the country's postwar military preparedness to deal with the emergence of new biological, chemical, and atomic weapons that could be used by the Soviet Union against Canada and its allies during the Cold War. The importance of this scholarly work is the author's presentation of information taken from recently made available government and military documents that reveal how the Canadian government utilized top Canadian scientists and engineers in developing an independent threat assessment capability within the Canadian Defence Department during a time of great risks to the security of the West stemming from military technological changes occurring behind the Iron Curtain during the early days of the Cold War. Wiseman's narrative sets the stage for the essay by Wilner, Beach-Vaive, Car- bonneau, Hopkins, and Leblanc which examines how foreign governments that are in geopolitical competition with Canada and its allies try to exploit the inherently open nature of Canadian research institutions in order to gain access to cutting-edge research and intellectual property. Research at risk: Global challenges, allied perspectives, and Canadian solutions, essentially reveals the fact that the high-profile instances of data theft and foreign espionage on research institutes are becoming so commonplace that research security (RS) -a distinct sub-study of national security-is being drawn on to provide measures aimed at protecting the inputs, processes, and products of scientific research, inquiry, and discovery so that Canada and its allies can thwart attempts by foreign governments to steal military technological secrets. However, as the authors point out, RS has to undergo significant adjustment as dual-use technology and societal shifts towards digitization, nano-technology and robotics, and even the recent COVID- 19 pandemic, are challenging the way RS has traditionally been conducted. The authors recommend that the Canadian government should provide direct cybersecurity support