What you should know about digital foreign interference: Alex Wilner and Sydney Reis in Maclean's
When it comes to the future of digital foreign interference (DFI), technology will increasingly make us question the veracity of all our information...
AI, bots and deep fakes: MLI study shows how technology shapes the fight against foreign political interference
OTTAWA, ON (August 29, 2019): Hostile foreign actors are increasingly employing digital foreign interference (DFI) as part of their toolkit to undermine democratic...
Understanding the Backgrounds of Canada's Jihadists: Alex Wilner for Inside Policy
Similarly to contemporary European or US jihadists, Canadian participants in Islamist militancy are remarkably diverse in their ethnic origins, social and economic status,...
Assessing Islamist Radicalization in Canada: New MLI Report
OTTAWA, ON (April 9, 2019): With ISIS facing complete collapse, Canada is now forced to deal with an uncomfortable reality; there are Canadians...
Why Canada’s counter-proliferation framework needs an update: Alex Wilner in the Hill Times
New strategies for communicating threats, responses, and obligations with a range of Canadian stakeholders are needed, writes Alex Wilner. By Alex Wilner, March...
Manchester terrorist attack shocking but not surprising, Alex Wilner tells CBC
The recent Manchester terrorist attack at a pop music concert was a “brutal act of violence against children”, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Alex...
MLI tackles the complexity of world affairs with the Global Security Look Ahead project
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has collected all six essays from its recently-concluded project on global security in once place OTTAWA, April 6, 2017 –...
Video with Alex Wilner: Defeating ISIS will require more than winning on the battlefield
Countries like Canada will need a concerted effort to contain the fallout from ISIS’s imminent defeat, says MLI Munk Senior Fellow Alex Wilner...
Global terrorism picture is grim: Alex Wilner in Sun papers
Rates of terrorism peaked in 2014 and have barely crested since. Alex Wilner asks in Sun papers: What’s driving these high rates of...
Containing the fallout from ISIS’s defeat: MLI Commentary by Alex Wilner
Nation-states will need a plan for foreign fighters and recruits after ISIS’s imminent collapse OTTAWA, Feb. 15, 2017 – The defeat of ISIS,...