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bjbj I'm Steve Hewitt, a senior lecturer in American and Canadian Studies. I'm a historian
by training and my research pertains to security and intelligence. Originally that involved
studying the history of Canadian policing, specifically the world-famour Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, and I'vedone a couple of books and a number of articles on that particular
force. Since coming to Birmingham my research has become broade, transnational and also
more contemporary. I've got a number of different interests but primarily at the moment my main
interest is in counter-terrorism. I'm looking specifically at the US in terms of counter-terrorism
as part of the so called war on terror, but alos more recently looking at British counter-terrorism,
domestic counter-terrorism again in the context of the so called war on terror. I had a book
out three years ago giving a contemporary history of whats been going on in the UK in
terms of counter-terrorism and terrorism since 911, but also attempts to offer historical
context to current events. Something the media frequently doesn't do and to show basically
that Britians been dealing with counter-terrirism going back to the 19th century - and that's
something I'm also interested in persuing in the future in terms of my research, but
also continuing looking at the American angle, again in the context of counter-terrorism
but also continuing to work on Canada in security and intelligence including Canadian counter-terrorism,
but also continuing to look at state surveillance. I've published in this area. One of the things
that really interests me is not what we call technological surveillance, people would know
this as CCTV cameras, which in Britain are on pretty much every street corner, I'm interested
in human intelligence. My most recent book is called Snitch - the history of the modern
intelligence informer, and looks at the use of informers historically by intelligence
agencies, by police forces and looking at these informers to go after what the state
has labelled subversion, so in the context of the Cold War that was spying on Communist
parties. I'm also interested in the use of informers in, again, the current so called
war on terror, because, and I think this is little recognised outside counter-terrorism
circles, about how important human intelligence is. The media, the movies, they like to use
the importance of technology - the sexy spy satellite, again the cctv cameras, but it's
actually the human intelligence - people inside the terrorist groups, infiltrating from the
outside in or recruited already because theyre already inside these groups who are the key
in terms of the counter-terrorism efforts at dealing with the current threat of terrorism
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