****NEW**** See the BUCSIS blog at http://www.bucsis.blogspot.com BUCSIS launched in 2008 with an academic base at the University of Buckingham, offering postgraduate taught and research-led Masters degree courses (MA and MPhil) in Security and Intelligence Studies. It is also developing postgraduate Certificate courses in selected modules of the Security and Intelligence Studies degree, which have the option of being conducted by correspondence over the internet, and can be made up to a full Masters degree. The MA degree at BUCSIS is offered within the School of Economic and International Studies at Buckingham University. Click here for full details of the MA course at BUCSIS. The BUCSIS team offers a range of research, knowledge sharing and media consultancy on the key security and intelligence issues of the day. Contact the team for more details. The Team: Professor Anthony Glees is the Director of BUCSIS. He sits on a number of editorial boards, including the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University, and is Rapporteur for the European Ideas Network’s (EIN) Terrorism working group. Professor Glees’s numerous publications include a highly acclaimed and unique analysis of the Stasi in East Germany. More recently he has written on the contemporary terrorist threat, the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee, and co-authored one of the few rigorous analyses to date of the Hutton Enquiry into the Iraq War. Dr Julian Richards is Deputy Director of BUCSIS. He combines an academic background in development studies and political violence in the developing world (including a Cambridge University PhD on the MQM movement in Pakistan), with more than 16 years' experience of working for the UK government on defence and security issues. He sits alongside Professor Glees on the European Ideas Network (EIN), for whom he has presented various papers across Europe, and is an Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU) at Bradford University. His various publications cover the political situation in the Pakistan/Afghanistan region, and issues relating to terrorism and contemporary counter terrorism policy. Jonathan Paris is a Fellow of BUCSIS. He is a UK-based political analyst and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Formerly a Middle East Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he researches and writes on transnational threats and national security, extremism and counter-radicalisation in Europe, Middle East conflicts, Pakistan and Transatlantic relations. He co-edited the first book on Indonesia’s democratic transition, The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Brookings 1999) and taught at Yale University from 1994-97.
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