JEREMY (JEZ) LITTLEWOOD
Assistant Professor
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
1 Refereed Scholarly Publications
(a) Books authored
‘The Biological Weapons Convention: A Failed Revolution’ (Aldershot, UK; Ashgate Publishers,
2005)
(b) Articles (refereed journals)
‘Ambitious Incrementalism’ The Nonproliferation Review 18:3 (2011) pp.499-511 [Co-authored
with Nicholas Sims]
‘Managing biological disarmament: the UK experience’ Science and Public Policy 35:1
(February 2008) pp.13-20
[Open Access: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/spp/2008/00000035/00000001]
‘Biological Weapons: Much Ado and Little Action’ Minerva 45:2 (June 2007) pp.191-203
(c) Chapters in edited books (refereed)
‘The Biological Weapons Convention’ in Guy Olivier Faure (Editor) Unfinished Business: Why
International Negotiations Fail (Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 2012) pp.107129
2 Other (Non-Refereed) Scholarly Publications
(a) Chapters in non-refereed books
‘Accountability of the Canadian security and intelligence community post-9/11: still a long and
winding road?’ Daniel Baldino (Editor) Democratic Oversight of Intelligence Services and its
Challenges (Sydney, AU., Federation Press, 2010) pp.83-107
‘Export controls and the non-proliferation of materials: national boundaries in international
science’ Brian Rappert and Caitríona McLeish (Editors) A Web of Prevention: Biological
Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research, (London, Earthscan Publishers,
2007) pp.143-161
‘The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons Threat’ Paul Wilkinson (Editor)
Homeland Security in the UK: Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11 (London,
Routledge, 2007) pp.57-80 [Co-authored with John Simpson]
‘Reducing the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons Threat: The Role of
Counter-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament’ Paul Wilkinson (Editor) Homeland
Security in the UK: Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11 (London, Routledge,
2007) pp.141-158 [Co-authored with John Simpson]
‘Strengthening the Role of the BTWC and CWC’ Vilmos Cserveny, Jozef Goldblat, Faawzy
Hussein Hamad, Hannelore Hoppe, Jez Littlewood, Ibrahim Othman, Enrique Roman Morey,
Mohammed Kadry Said Building a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East
(Geneva, United Nations, 2004) pp. 25-46
[Open Access http://unidir.org/bdd/fiche-ouvrage.php?ref_ouvrage=92-9045-168-8-en ]
‘Provisions for International Cooperation and Assistance’ Marie Isabelle Chevrier, Krzysztof
Chomiczewski, Henri Garrigue, György Granasztói, Malcolm R. Dando and Graham S. Pearson
(Editors) The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the Biological and
Toxin Weapons Convention (Dordecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) pp. 119-215
‘Back to Basics: Verification and the Biological Weapons Convention’ Trevor Findlay (Editor)
Verification Yearbook 2003 (Nottingham, Russell Press Ltd., 2003) pp.85-106 [open access
http://www.vertic.org/media/Archived_Publications/Yearbooks/2003/VY03_Littlewood.pdf]
‘The Future of Biological Weapons Control’ A Russell and J Vogler (Editors) Biotechnology and
International Relations (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000) pp. 186-196
‘NLWs and Urban Warfare: Aspects of US Thinking’ Malcolm R. Dando (Editor) Non-Lethal
Weapons: Technological and Operational Prospects (Jane’s Special Report 2000) pp. 21-31
(b) Articles (non-refereed journals)
‘Biological Weapons Review Conference 2011: Avoiding The Road to Nowhere’ Federation of
American Scientists Public Interest Report (PIR) 64:3 (Fall 2011)
[Open Access: http://www.fas.org/pubs/pir/article/bwrc2011.html]
‘The verification debate in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 2011’ Disarmament
Forum 3 (2011) pp.15-25 [Open Access http://www.unidir.ch/bdd/ficheperiodique.php?ref_periodique=1020-7287-2010-3-en ]
‘Dealing with terrorism: a complex challenge’ Frontline Security 4:2 (Summer 2009) pp.43-46.
[Open Access http://frontline-security.org/index_archives.php?page=501 ]
‘US Critical Infrastructure under Obama’ RUSI Monitor 8:2 (August, 2009)
‘Out of the Valley: Advancing the Biological Weapons Convention after the 2006 Review
Conference’ Arms Control Today (March, 2007), pp.12-16
[Open Access http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_03/Littlewood ]
‘Weapons of Mass Destruction and the EU Security Strategy’ Oxford Journal of Good
Governance 1:1 (May 2004) pp. 55-60
‘Substance Hidden Under a Mountain of Paper: The BWC Experts’ Meeting in 2003’
Disarmament Diplomacy Issue No. 73 (October-November 2003) pp. 63-66
‘The EU Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Journal of
European Affairs 1:1 (August 2003) pp. 25-26
‘Hope and Ambition turn to Dismay and Neglect: the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
in 2001’ Medicine, Conflict and Survival 18:2 (April-June 2002) pp. 161-174 [Co-authored with
Daniel Feakes]
(c) Technical Reports
‘CBRN Terrorism: Assessing the Threat of CBRN Terrorism by Groups and Individuals in
Canada and Worldwide’ [Co-authored with Dane Rowlands and Joshua Kilberg] (Kanishka
Project Contribution Program – submitted to KPCP August 31, 2012)
‘How to approach compliance issues in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: policy
issues for the Seventh BTWC Review Conference in 2011’, Meeting of the States Parties to the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction BWC/MSP/2009/WP.4, submitted by
Canada, December 7, 2009. http://www.international.gc.ca/arms-armes/isrop-prisi/researchrecherche/chemical-chimique/index.aspx?lang=en&view=d
‘Confidence-building measures and the Biological Weapons Convention: where to from here?’
Compliance Chronicles Number 6 (July 2008) Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance, NPSIA,
Carleton University http://www6.carleton.ca/cctc/publications/
‘Investigating allegations of CBW use: reviving the UN Secretary-General’s mechanism’
Compliance Chronicles Number 3 (December 2006) Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance,
NPSIA, Carleton University. http://www6.carleton.ca/cctc/publications/
‘New Terror Weapons’ Topics in Terrorism: Towards a Transatlantic Consensus on the Nature
of the Threat Atlantic Council of the United States and NATO, July 2005 pp. 39-54 [Co-authored
with Darryl Howlett]
‘Managing the Biological Weapons Problem: from the Individual to the International’ Paper No.
14 (2004) WMD Commission
[open access http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/wmdcommission/pstudies.html ]
(d) Book reviews in Scholarly journals
Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America Reg Whitaker,
Gregory S. Kealey and Andrew Parnaby (University of Toronto Press, 2012) reviewed in Literary
Review of Canada 21:4 (May, 2013) pp.30-31
Bioviolence Barry Kellman reviewed in Contemporary Security Policy 29:2 (2008) pp.402-404.
Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat Wenger & Wollenmann (Eds) reviewed in
Contemporary Security Policy 28:2 (2007) pp.420-421.
War of Nerves: Chemical Weapons from World War I to Al-Qaeda Jonathan B. Tucker (New
York, Pantheon Books, 2006) pp479 reviewed in Issues in Science and Technology Vol. XXIII
no. 1 (Fall 2006) pp.93-95
Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, and
Robert L. Gallucci, (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004) 474pp., £21.50, HB,
ISBN: 0815793863. Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 28 No. 6 (December 2005) pp.1068-1071
Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America William C. Triplett II, (Washington,
D.C: Regnery Publishing, 2004) pp.246., £18.99, HB, ISBN:0895260689 Journal of Strategic
Studies, Vol. 28 No. 6 (December 2005) pp.1068-1071
Empires, Systems, and States: Great Transformations in International Politics ‘Michael Cox, Tim
Dunne and Ken Booth (Editors), (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001) Journal of
European Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February 2004) pp.90-92
OTHER SCHOLARLY OR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
1. Editorial responsibilities
Editorial Board of Earthscan Publications series on Science & Society (2005 to 2008)
2. Papers presented (not subsequently published)
(Professional Associations and related conferences)
‘The future(s) of terrorism and Canadian national security’ Preliminary Research Findings from a
TSAS-sponsored project, Ottawa, May 30, 2014
‘Co-Operation, Complexity and Change: Canadian Intelligence and the Globalized Security
Environment’ presented at the 55th International Studies Assocaition Annual Convention,
Toronto, March 26-29, 2014
‘Assessing the Threat of CBRN Terrorism’ paper presented to Kanishka Project Research
Imitative Opening Conference Building connections, refining questions, advancing solutions
November 8-9, 2012, Ottawa. [co-presentation with Joshua Kilberg]
‘Intelligence support to Canada’s interventions in the “9/11 Wars”: Cooperation, Complexity, and
Change’ paper presented to Leverhulme-University of Reading conference on The Liberal Way
of War July 6-7, 2012, University of Reading, UK
‘The Disarmament-Development Nexus in the NPT and the BWC’ paper presented for the panel
on Nuclear Disarmament and Global Zero: Lessons from the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Conventions 52nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association March 16-19,
2011, Montreal
‘Intelligence and Biological Weapons’ presented at the 51st Annual Convention of the
International Studies Association, February 17-20, 2010, New Orleans
Foreign Approaches to Pathogen Security’ FBI Synthetic Biology Conference Building Bridges
Around Building Genomes, August 4-5, 2009, San Francisco, California
‘Disabling Counter-Proliferation: Chemical & Biological Incapacitants’ Chemical Heritage
Foundation CAIN Conference, March 27-28, 2008. Philadelphia,
‘Cooperation, Complexity and Change: Canada's Transatlantic Intelligence Relationships in the
early 21st Century’ paper for the conference Transatlantic Relations and International Conflict
Management February 7-8, 2008 Carleton University, Ottawa
‘The Making and Breaking of Policy for the BWC: Observations from the United Kingdom’ 48th
Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28 2007, Chicago
‘Biological Disarmament: Governance not Arms Control?’ 3rd European Consortium for Political
Research (ECPR), September 8-11, 2005, Budapest, Hungary,
‘What is the role of global governance in the war on terrorism?’ for the conference Global
Governance: scenarios for the future 21st Century Trust, October 21-29, 2004, Madingley Hall,
University of Cambridge, UK
‘A Framework for Assessing UK Responses to CBRN Terrorism’ Changing Face of Terrorism
and its Implications for British and International Security British International Studies Association
(BISA) 28th Annual Conference, December 15-17, 2003, University of Birmingham [Coauthored with John Simpson]
‘Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: from arms control regimes to governance?’ CEEISA/ISA
International Convention on Global Tensions and Their Challenges to Governance of the
International Community, June 26-28, 2003, Budapest, Hungary
‘The Lost Decade of Biological Disarmament, 1991-2001’ 43rd Annual Convention of the
International Studies Association, March 27, 2002, New Orleans
‘The Future of Biological Weapons: Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention’ presented at the British International Studies Association 24th Annual Conference,
December 20, 1999, University of Manchester, UK
3. Presentations & Papers (Conferences, Workshops & Symposia by invitation)
‘Leveraging a 21st Century Information Space’ invited presentation to Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) workshop on Leveraging a 21st Century Information
Space January 28, 2013, Ottawa
‘Global Forces: Terrorism’ invited presentation to Canadian Association of Security and
Intelligence Studies (CASIS) symposium on Developing Security and Intelligence Challenges
November 16, 2012, Ottawa
‘Understanding Hezbollah’s Impact on the Security of Canada and the United States’ invited
presentation to CSIS Academic Outreach and Public Safety Canada workshop Beyond the
Border – Understanding Hezbollah’s Impact on the Security of Canada and the United States
November 13, 2012, Ottawa
‘Undertaking effective review and oversight’ invited presentation to the 8th International
Intelligence Review Agencies Conference (IIRAC) Strengthening democracy through effective
review May 27-30, 2012, Ottawa
‘National Security Accountability: What Needs to be Done’, presentation at workshop on The
Challenges of National Security Accountability University of Ottawa, March 29, 2011
‘State and non-state actor interest in CBW: what role for the Conventions in influencing potential
offensive motivations and intent for CBW?’ remarks for CCISS-CCTC-NPSIA Workshop on The
role of the chemical and biological weapons conventions in preventing acquisition and use of
chemical and biological weapons, March 15, 2011, Ottawa
‘The Biological Weapons Regime and its Gaps’ presentation to Harvard-Sussex Program
Symposium on Ensuring the suppression of chemical and biological Weapons: criminalization
and beyond University of Sussex, UK, February 11, 2011
‘The future utility of biological weapons’ invited paper presented at ENTRA Technology IncNational intelligence Council (US) workshop on CBW Utility Washington, D.C., October 14,
2010
‘The 2011 BTWC Review Conference’ paper presented to 1046th Wilton Park Conference
Prospects for the 2011 Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention,
September 24-26, 2010, Wilton Park, UK
‘Past efforts to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention’ University of Bath &
Riksbanken Jubileumsfond, Europe and the Global Challenge of Biological Controls January 1516, 2010 Bath, UK
‘Get Set: Further thinking about the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons
Convention in 2011’, 30th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the
Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions Preparing for the Seventh BWC Review
Conference December 5-6, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
‘A New ‘Cold War’? Climate Change, Security, and the Arctic’ presented at the Annual
International Conference of the Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies
(CASIS), Ottawa, Canada, October 29, 2009
‘Implications of chemical and biological incapacitant weapons on counter-proliferation’ Wilton
Park Conference WPS09/7 Preventing and Mitigating the next use of chemical and biological
weapons, September 25-27, 2009, Wilton Park, UK.
‘The strengths and weaknesses of current Confidence Building Measures in the Biological
Weapons Convention’ Geneva Forum Workshop Options and proposals to strengthen the
Confidence-Building Measures mechanism of the Biological Weapons Convention Jongny,
Switzerland, August 22-23 2009
‘The view from afar: issues from irregular conflicts (Northern Ireland and Iraq)’ presented at
Defence S&T Symposium, Understanding the Human Dimension in the 21st Century
Conflict/Warfare: Taking Care of the Frontline, Defence Research & Development Canada, April
21-23, 2009
‘On Your Marks: thinking about preparing for the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological
Weapons Convention in 2011’ 29th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the
Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions Moving Towards the
Seventh BWC Review Conference Pugwash Meeting no. 344 November 29-30, 2008 Geneva,
Switzerland
‘Transparency in Current & Emerging Approaches to Biosecurity’ Conference on Transparency
in Current and Emerging Approaches to Biosecurity George Mason University, Arlington, VA.,
October 19, 2007.
‘The Future of Biological Weapons Control’ AAAS Annual Meeting:panel Future Potential of
Biological Weapons: Science, Technology, and Policy February 16-20, 2006 St. Louis, Missouri
‘Chemical and Biological Terrorism: is there a balance between apathy and hyperbole?’,
Pugwash High Level CBW Workshop Present Trends and Future Policy Choice Pugwash
Meeting no. 304, April 16-17, 2005 Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
‘What outcome would be regarded as successful in 2006?’ 21st Workshop of the Pugwash
Study Group, on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions The
BWC New Process and the Sixth Review Conference, December 4-5, 2004, Geneva,
Switzerland
‘The nature and scale of the bioterrorist threat and how to prepare for it’ for the conference
Disease and Security 21st Century Trust, April 23-May 1, 2004, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy
‘Terrorism and Biological Weapons’, prepared for the ESRC Project on Domestic Management
of Terrorist Attacks University of St Andrews & University of Southampton, September 15-16,
2004, London, UK
‘2006 and beyond: preparatory assistance and background activities’ 20th Workshop of the
Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Conventions The BTWC Intersessional Process towards the Sixth Review Conference and
Beyond November 8-9 2003, Geneva, Switzerland,
‘The Role of the CWC and the BTWC’ The League of Arab States-UNIDIR Conference on
Establishing a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East February 24-25,
2003 Cairo, Egypt
‘Strengthening the BWC: what is a realistic inter-Review Conference Strategy?’ 18th Workshop
of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Conventions The Resumption of the Fifth Review Conference 2002 and Beyond, November 910, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland
‘Article X Issues at the Fifth Review Conference: Aspects of Cooperation’ 14th Workshop of the
Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Conventions, Key Issues for the Fifth Review Conference 2001 Pugwash Meeting No. 258,
November 18-19, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
Invited Lectures
‘Terrorism and International Security: Reflecting on five years of teaching’ presentation to
Canadian Association of Professional Intelligence Analysts (CAPIA) November 23, 2011
‘Biological Weapons: Disarmament and Proliferation Dynamics in the next Decade’ presentation
to staff of Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC), October 27, 2011
‘Chemical and Biological Weapons: Proliferation, Future Use and Development’ presentation to
RCMP Counter-Proliferation Workshop, Ottawa, February 22, 2011
‘Chemical and Biological Weapons: Future Use and Development’ Presentation to DRDCCORA, Ottawa, December 14, 2010
‘When Good is no longer good enough: issues in Canadian Intelligence and Accountability’
Brunel University & Loughborough University ESRC Seminar Series on Intelligence, Brunel
University, London (UK) August 24, 2009.
Metropolis Project 10th Annual Conference, Panel member for Plenary Session ‘Does a
Commitment to Citizenship, Inclusion and Integration Prevent Extremism and Radicalization?
Halifax, NS., April 6, 2008
‘CBRN Terrorism: Threat Assessment & Implications for Canada’ Lecture for National Risk
Assessment Centre CBSA, October 31, 2007.
‘Countering WMD Proliferation’ Lecture at the Defence Academy (Shrivenham) Joint Services
Command Staff College (JSCSC) October 21 2004,
‘CBRN: The Terrorist Threat’ The Regional Challenge of Asymmetric Conflicts and Terrorism
Defence Studies Course, The Southampton Park Hotel, Southampton, October 12, 2004
‘Global Security in the 21st Century: the Contemporary Security Implications of Weapons of
Mass Destruction’ HQ UK Support Command (Germany), Rheindahlen, April 10, 2003
‘The British Nuclear Deterrent: Twenty-First Century Mission and related matters’ The
Contemporary Security Implications of Weapons of Mass Destruction Defence Studies Course,
British Defence Policy: Missions & Capabilities, Southampton, March 25-26, 2003
‘Global Security in the 21st Century: the Contemporary Security Implications of Weapons of
Mass Destruction’ “Hard Security” and “Soft Security” Issues with Special Reference to British
and EU Interests Defence Studies Course, Southampton, October 15-16, 2002
4. Contract or other research July 2007 to April 2013: $282,103.53
1) Canadian network for research on terrorism, security and society (TSAS): Carleton
University / Jeremy Littlewood (PI) research on ‘The future(s) of terrorism and Canadian
National Security’ (May 2013-March 2014) $15,000
2) DFAIT/ISROP/Public Safety Canada: Carleton University / Jeremy Littlewood research and
presentation at workshop on ‘Leveraging a 21st Century Information Space’ (January 2013)
$1,000
3) Public Safety Canada: Carleton University / Jeremy Littlewood (PI) research and
presentation on ‘Is Hizballah a threat to the US and Canada?’ (October-November 2012)
$1,000
4) ISROP / Simons Centre: Review and assessment of applicants for Graduate Research
Assistantship competition (November 2012-February 2013): $1,000
5) Public Works / Public Safety Canada – Kanishka Project Contribution Program: Carleton
University / Dane Rowlands (Principal Investigator), Jeremy Littlewood, Joshua Kilberg
(March 1, 2012 to July 1, 2012) research project on chemical, biological, radiological and
nuclear terrorism: $60,739
6) Public Works / Public Health Agency Canada (PHAC): Carleton University / Jeremy
Littlewood research project on compliance with the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention: $8,800
7) Department of National Defence (Contract W699-12-DB67) Consulting and Professional
Services. CCISS to provide two lectures on Canadian Intelligence and Terrorism and
international security: PI (Littlewood): $4,039.75
8) DRDC: DND (Contract W7714-4500824171) to host and organize conference on chemical
and biological weapons (March 15, 2011) $4,424.78
9) Public Works Canada, Defence Research and Development Canada Centre for Operational
Research Analysis (DRDC-CORA): PI for project on 3 x papers on Energy Security issues
January-March 2010: $23,900
10) DFAIT: ISROP Policy Development: The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological and
Toxin Weapons Convention September-November 2009: $4,000
11) Public Safety Canada: Policy Development Grant. Workshop on “Resilience in Canada”
November 2008-March 2009: $10,000
12) Royal Canadian Mounted Police – National Security Criminal Investigations: Conference on
“Policing Counter-Terrorism” November 2008: $45,000
13) Natural Resources Canada: Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Policy Research –
Contribution Agreement. February-March 2008: $96,000
14) Metropolis project, ‘Perceptions & Realities of Terrorist Threats: Government, Institutional
and Social Responses’ Policing, Justice and Security in a Diverse Canada: Building an
Empirical Evidence Base February 25-26, 2008, Ottawa. $3,200
15) Department of National Defence, DRDC-Center for Science Security, CBRNE Hazards: an
open-source evaluation and threat assessment, January 17, 2008: $4,000
5. Media
Op-Ed: ‘The peril of soft targets’ Ottawa Citizen April 16, 2013
Op-Ed: ‘Intelligence, accountability and privacy versus globalization: is Parliament up to the
task?’ The Hill Times, October 31, 2011