Thomas Flanagan

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Thomas Flanagan

Thomas Eugene Flanagan (born March 5, 1944 in Ottawa , Illinois ) is an American political scientist at the University of Calgary .

Life

Flanagan studied at the University of Notre Dame , where he received his Bachelor of Arts . He then continued his studies at Duke University . There received his Master of Arts and later his Ph.D.

Tom Flanagan was the head of the Advisory Board to Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada .

On November 30, 2010, in an interview with CBC News , Flanagan proposed an assassination attempt on Julian Assange , a spokesman for the Internet platform WikiLeaks , and suggested the use of a drone . Shortly afterwards he regretted his statement as " thoughtless ".

literature

Essays
  • Customary Land Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves . In: Terry L. Anderson (Ed.): Self-Determination. The Other Path for Native Americans. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. 2006, ISBN 978-0-8047-5441-5 , pp. 134-158.
Monographs
  • Harper's team. Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2007, ISBN 978-0-7735-3298-4 .
  • An Introduction to Government and Politics. A conceptual approach. Nelson College Indigenous, Toronto 2005, ISBN 978-0-17-641676-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Flanagan on the University of Calgary website . Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  2. ^ The Man behind Stephen Harper walrusmagazine.com, October 2004, accessed December 6, 2010
  3. ↑ WikiLeaks: guilty parties 'should face death penalty'. In: The Telegraph . Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  4. ^ Julian Assange should be assassinated, Canadian official claims. In: The Telegraph . Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ "It was a thoughtless, glib remark" in: Flanagan regrets WikiLeaks assassination remark cbc.ca, December 1, 2010, accessed December 2, 2010.
  6. ↑ WikiLeaks founder calls for Flanagan charge cbc.ca, December 3, 2010, accessed December 6, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Flanagan, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flanagan, Thomas Eugene (full name); Flanagan, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Illinois