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).[3]
Wark is a frequent media commentator on national security and intelligence and contemporary security issues. Notably, writing in 2020, Mr. Wark appeared to be unaware that Canada's military had a medical intelligence unit, stating "The Canadian military appears to have no counterpart to the U.S. National Center for Medical Intelligence, which is part of their Defense Intelligence Agency.".[4] Later that year Mr. Wark stated "The Department of National Defence has a small medical intelligence unit, normally utilized to assist in determining health risk in overseas military deployments, but whose expertise could be pressed into service on COVID-19.” [5] Again in 2021, he discussed Canada's "military medical intelligence branch.".[6] 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.[7]
Books
The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1985[8]
Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: New Perspectives for the 1990s (co-editor with Anthony Stuart Farson and David Stafford), Psychology Press, 1991[9]
Spy Fiction, Spy Films, and Real Intelligence, 1991 (editor)[10]
Twenty-First Century Intelligence, Routledge, 2013 (editor)
References
^"Wesley Wark", Faculty Directory, University of Toronto Department of History, 7 November 2019, retrieved 28 May 2021
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ab"Wesley Wark", Members, University of Ottawa, retrieved 28 May 2021
^Prime Minister Stephen Harper Announces Appointments to the Advisory Council on National Security (ACNS): Wesley Wark who was appointed in 2005 agreed to remain, Ottawa 1 Nov 2010.
^Reviews of The Ultimate Enemy: Patrick Beesly, International History Review,
JSTOR40105656; Horst Boog, Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen,
[1]; Nigel Clive, International Affairs,
JSTOR2618401; Andrew J. Crozier, History,
JSTOR24415416; Luc De Vos, Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire,
[2]; L. L. Farrar Jr., Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
JSTOR1045620; M. R. D. Foot, Albion,
JSTOR4049715; Alfred Gollin, The American Historical Review,
JSTOR1864004; R. H., Military Affairs,
JSTOR1988468; M. W. Jackson, History of European Ideas,
doi:
10.1016/0191-6599(88)90026-5; Keith Robbins, The English Historical Review,
JSTOR571163; Peter St. John, Journal of Conflict Studies,
[3]; Ralph White, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains,
JSTOR25730412
^Reviews of Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: Victor Huard, Canadian Journal of History,
doi:
10.3138/cjh.27.3.610; Ross G. Weber, Journal of Conflict Studies,
[4]
^Reviews of Spy Fiction, Spy Films, and Real Intelligence: Philip M. Taylor, The International History Review,
JSTOR40107307; Keith Neilson, Canadian Journal of History,
doi:
10.3138/cjh.26.3.525
^Reviews of Espionage: Past, Present, Future?: Reg Whitaker, Canadian Historical Review,
[5]; Martin Thornton, Intelligence and National Security,
doi:
10.1080/02684529508432336