Asia-Pacific Security Challenges

Dr Anthony Masys is a Senior Defence Scientist for the Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science. His research interests focus on safety and security, risk, crisis and disaster management, critical infrastructure analysis, humanitarian aid, development and disasters, scenario planning, human security, intelligence (alternative analysis), counter-terrorism, complex socio-technical system analysis, modeling and simulation, systems thinking, knowledge management and operational analysis. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series. Dr Masys is aninternationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops in Europe, North and South America and Asia including at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction March 2015 in Sendai, Japan. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. Lieutenant Colonel Leo S.F. Lin is the police attaché of Taiwan’s National Police Agency (NPA) to U.S. and Canada. In his capacity, he deals with broad issues covering police, fire and disasters. Thus, he liaises with various leading law enforcement agencies, namely FBI, ICE, FEMA, RCMP, INTERPOL, among others. He put special focus on international cooperation, transnational crime and terrorism, and international major event security. Lin graduated from Taiwan Central Police University and he holds a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Indianapolis. He is a Research Associate with the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) in Athens, and member of the Standing Group on Organised Crime of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

• Complexity and Security: New ways of thinking and seeing.- Risk and Resilience in the Asia-Pacific region: managing the expected, preparing for the unexpected.- Climate Change and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region.- Cybercrime in East and Southeast Asia: The Case of Taiwan.- Natural disasters and health risks of first responders.- The March, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster – a foreseeable system accident.- The Maori Response to Seismic ‘Swans’.- Building Energy Resiliency in the Asia Pacific - Providing transition pathways for a more secure and sustainable future.- From Data Modeling to Algorithmic Modeling in the Big Data Era: Water Resources Security in the Asia-Pacific Region under Conditions of Climate Change.- From Gas Explosions to Earthquakes: Case Studies of Disaster Response in Taiwan.- The missing link in the Global Aviation Safety and Security Network: the case of Taiwan.- Universal Participation without Taiwan? A Study of Taiwan’s Participation in theGlobal Health Governance Sponsored by the World Health Organization.- Dacoity in India: Investigating Thievery and Banditry in the British Raj’s Jewel.