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BOB
BERGEN
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Bob
Bergen received his Ph.D. from the Center for Military and Strategic
Studies at the University of Calgary in 2005. He holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and a
Master of Communications Studies degree from the University of
Calgary.
His Ph.D. thesis topic researched the Canadian air force participation
in the Kosovo air war and the Canadian military’s management of the
nation’s English-language news media during that war.
Bob is a former journalist who began his Ph.D. studies on a part-time
basis in May 1999. He left the Calgary Herald in July 2000
after 20 years to pursue his Ph.D. full-time. He began specializing in
writing about the Canadian Armed Forces in the mid-1970s at The
Albertan. His work revealing Canadian soldiers in Calgary were on
provincial welfare roles prompted federal changes to the Forces
housing policies and won The Albertan a Governor-General’s
citation for Meritorious Public Service in Canadian Journalism in
1979.
He joined the Calgary Herald in 1980. In addition to his
domestic work, his coverage of the Forces included assignments on
United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization operations in
the Middle East (1977), Cyprus (1978), Cold War Europe (1978) and in
Croatia and Bosnia (1994). He also sat on the Editorial Boards of
both the Calgary Herald and The Albertan.
He attended the National Security Studies Course at National Defence
College (March –April 1992).
In 2001-2002 Bob was a media fellow with the Sheldon Chumir Foundation
for Ethics in Leadership. His research report “Exposing the Boss: A
Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics” examined ethical dilemmas
Canadian newspaper journalists face in an age of increasingly
concentrated ownership. It provided quantitative evidence that
diversity of ideas and opinion was seriously threatened in Southam’s
major daily newspapers by its CanWest owner’s national editorial
policies.
Keywords: Canadian Parliament, military deployments, the
Canadian Air Force during the Kosovo air war, media-military
relations, Canadian journalism ethics.
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DAVID CARMENT
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David Carment is a Professor of International Affairs at
the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton
University, Ottawa. He served as Director of the Centre for Security
and Defence Studies at Carleton University from 2002-2004. His recent
books include, Peacekeeping Intelligence, Conflict Prevention: From
Rhetoric to Reality, Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An
Evaluation of Theory and Evidence and Conflict Prevention: Path to
Peace or Grand Illusion? In addition Carment serves as the principal
investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project. His most recent work focuses on
developing failed state risk assessment and early warning
methodologies evaluating models of third party intervention.
In 2000-2001 Carment was a Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer
Center. While there he contributed an article on peacekeeping for
Harvard International Review and a co-authored a paper on "Bias and
Intervention" for the BCSIA Working Paper Series.
Keywords: Ethnic conflict, communication technologies in
conflict analysis & resolution, early warning, peacekeeping, conflict
prevention, peace building & security issues in South and Southeast
Asia, Eastern Europe & Africa.
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JOCELYN
COULON
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Jocelyn Coulon is the Director of the Peace Operations Research
Network. He is also a member of the Research Group in International
Security (REGIS) at the Université de Montréal's Centre for
International Research and Studies (CÉRIUM) since 2004. He writes a
column on international politics for the Montreal daily La Presse.
Previously, he was director of the Montreal campus of the Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre from February 1999 to December 2003. He was a
member of the PPC board of directors from 2004 to 2007. He is a member
of the IDRC board of governors.
In the past few years, he has published a number of books, including,
in 1998, Soldiers of Diplomacy. The United Nations, Peacekeeping,
and The New World Order, University of Toronto Press, and in 2005,
Guide du maintien de la paix 2006 and L'agression: Les
États-Unis, l'Irak et le monde, both published by Athéna Éditions.
He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
(IISS).
Keywords: Peacebuilding/Peacekeeping, International Governance
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JAMES
FERGUSSON
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Dr.
James Fergusson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and
Security Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of
Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. He received his
BA(Hons) and MA Degrees from the University of Manitoba, and his Ph.D.
from the University of British Columbia in 1989. He teaches a range of
courses in the areas of international relations, strategic studies,
and foreign and defence policy, with an emphasis on Canada. He has
published numerous articles in these areas, most recently "The
Coupling Paradox: Nuclear Weapons, Ballistic Missile Defence and the
Future of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship". NATO and European
Security: Alliance Politics from the End of the Cold War to the Age of
Terrorism Alexander Moens, et.al. ed.s Westport: Praeger:2003;
“Getting to 2020: The Canadian Forces and Future Force Structure and
Investment Considerations” Canadian Foreign Policy 9:3, Spring
2002. He is also one of the principal authors of To Secure a
Nation: The Case for a New Defence White Paper. Council for
Canadian Security in the 21st Century. November 2001. Dr. Fergusson is
a former NATO research fellow, who examined the implications of
ballistic missile defence for NATO and the trans-Atlantic
relationship.
In addition to his academic publications, Dr Fergusson has been
commissioned to write several reports for the Department of National
Defence and Department of Foreign Affairs. Among these reports, he has
written on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and co-authored
with Steve James the 2000 Space Appreciation for the
Directorate of Space Development. He annually participates in the
General and Senior Officer Space Indoctrination Course, the Canadian
Forces’ College Staff Officer and National Security Courses, and the
Air Force Staff Course in Winnipeg, and most recently addressed the
Canadian Air Force Symposium on Expeditionary Forces held at the
Canadian Forces' College in Toronto. Dr. Fergusson has testified on
several occasions to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and
International Trade and the Standing Committee on National Defence and
Veteran's Affairs, most recently on Canada and the question of
participation in the U.S. ballistic missile defence program for North
America.. He has also served on several panels of the Defence Science
Advisory Board, and is a member of the Defence Industrial Advisory
Committee.
Dr. Fergusson is currently completing a manuscript entitled Deja Vu
All Over Again: Canadian Policy from ABM and SDI, to NMD and Beyond.
Keywords: Strategic studies, nuclear weapons, ballistic missile
defence, military issues and outer space, aerospace, Canadian-US
defence relations.
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JOHN
FERRIS
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Dr. Ferris, formerly the Head of the History Department at The
University of Calgary is a specialist in military and diplomatic
history, as well as in intelligence. He continues to work on the
formation of strategic policy and on the value and limits to
intelligence in decision-making.
He has written widely about British diplomacy and strategy between the
1870's and 1945, and on the history of British code-breaking. He has
also published on topics like sea power between the World Wars,
American intelligence, strategic air defence, and western perceptions
of Japanese military power.
John Ferris has recently published three studies on contemporary
intelligence and the RMA, and intelligence in the Gulf War of 2003. At
present, John Ferris is writing books on Anglo-Japanese strategic
relations, 1900-1945, British signals intelligence, 1890-1945, and on
how policy makers can use intelligence.
Keywords: Strategy, intelligence, military history,
international relations, contemporary US military policy.
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JACK
GRANATSTEIN
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Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto on 21 May 1939. He
attended Toronto public schools, Le Collège militaire royal de St-Jean
(Grad. Dipl., 1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A.,
1961), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University
(Ph.D., 1966). He served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined
the History Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where,
after taking early retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor
of History Emeritus. Granatstein has also taught at the University of
Western Ontario and the Royal Military College. He was the Rowell
Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs
(1996-2000) and was a member of the Royal Military College of Canada
Board of Governors (1997-2005). From 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000, he
was the Director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He was
then Special Adviser to the Director of the Museum (2000-01), a member
of the Canadian War Museum Committee (2001-06), and chair of the
Museum’s Advisory Council (2001-06). He is now a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (2006- ), a member
of its Executive and Development Committees (2009- ), and is chair of
the Board’s Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee (2007- ). The
government re-appointed him to the Board of Trustees for a second
three-year term.
Granatstein has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1996. He
held the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-84,
1991-93), was the editor of the Canadian Historical Review
(1981-84), and was a founder of the Organization for the History of
Canada which gave him its first National History Award in 2006. He has
been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1982 and in 1992
was awarded the Society’s J.B. Tyrrell Historical Gold Medal "for
outstanding work in the history of Canada." His book, The Generals
(1993), won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian
Biography. Canada’s National History Society named him the winner of
the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004), and the Canadian
Authors Association gave him its Lela Common Award for Canadian
History in 2006. In 2008, the Conference of Defence Associations
awarded him its 75th Anniversary Book Prize as “the
author deemed to have made the most significant
positive contribution to the general public’s understanding of
Canadian foreign policy, national security and defence during the past
quarter century.”
He has honorary doctorates from Memorial University of Newfoundland
(1993), the University of Calgary (1994), Ryerson Polytechnic
University (1999), the University of Western Ontario (2000), McMaster
University (2000), Niagara University (2004), and the Royal Military
College of Canada (2007). He is a senior Fellow of Massey College,
Toronto (2000- ). The Conference of Defence Associations Institute
presented him the Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field
of Canadian defence and security” (1996), and he was a Director of the
CDAI and a member of its Executive Committee (2005-09). In 2007, he
received the General Sir Arthur Currie Award from the Military Museums
Society of Calgary, and he was named honorary historian of the Royal
Canadian Military Institute.
In 1995 he served as one of three commissioners on the Special
Commission on the Restructuring of the [Canadian Forces] Reserves
(chaired by the Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of
Canada), and in 1997 he advised the Minister of National Defence on
the future of the Canadian Forces. He was a member of the Advisory
Committee of the Dominion Institute, is a national fellow of the
University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
(1997- ), is on the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier
Institute (2010- ), and was Chair of the Council for Canadian Security
in the 21st Century (2001-5) for which he wrote a monthly column
(2006-07). He is a Senior Research Fellow (2008- ) and was a Board of
Directors member (2004-10) and Chair of the Advisory Council of the
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-08). He writes a
monthly newspaper column for CDFAI (2008- ).
Granatstein writes on 20th Century Canadian national history--the
military, defence and foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the
public service, and politics. He comments regularly on historical
questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and
television; he provided the historical commentary for CBC-TV's
coverage of the 50th, 60th, and 65th anniversaries of D-Day (1994,
2004, 2009), V-E Day (1995, 2005), V-J Day (1995), and the 90th
anniversary of Vimy Ridge (2007); and he speaks frequently here and
abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films, including
“Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004), and he wrote for the National Film
Board’s projects to put Canadian Great and Second World War film
footage on-line. He wrote a regular book review column for Legion
magazine (2006-09) and for On Track (2006-08), and he was the
historical consultant for the Ontario Veterans Memorial (2005-06) and
the Gardiner Museum’s Battle of Britain exhibit (2006).
Granatstein’s many scholarly and popular books include The Politics
of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967,
1970), Peacekeeping: International Challenge and Canadian Response
(1968), Canadian Foreign Policy Since 1945 (1969, 1970, 1973),
Forum: Canadian Life and Letters 1920-1970 (1972), Canada's
War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-45 (1975,
1990), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime
(1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada
(1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A
Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981),
The Gouzenko Transcripts (1982), The Ottawa Men: The Civil
Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982, 1998), Twentieth Century
Canada (1983, 1986, 1989), Bloody Victory: Canadians and the
D-Day Campaign (1984, 1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's
Universities on the Road to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust: Brian
Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power (1985), Canada
1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The
Collins Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain's
Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989),
Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989),
A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War
(1989), Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
(1990,1991) Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to
Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese
in World War II (1990; Japanese ed., 1994), For Better or For
Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (1991, 1992,
2007), War and Peacekeeping: From South Africa to the
Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991), English Canada Speaks
Out (1991), Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992,
1994), The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the
Second World War (1993, 1995, 2005), Empire to Umpire: Canadian
Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994; rev. ed., 2007), Victory
1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995), The Good Fight:
Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home? Canadians
and Anti-Americanism (1996, 1997), Petrified Campus: Canada’s
Universities in Crisis (1997, 1998), The Canadian 100: The
Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century (1997,
1998), The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada
(1998, 1999), Who Killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999, rev.
ed., 2007), Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre
Trudeau (1998, 1999), Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime
Ministers (1999, 2000), Our Century: The Canadian Journey
(2000, 2001), Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
(2002, 2004), First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Past
(2003, 2004), Canada and the Two World Wars (2003), The
Importance of Being Less Earnest: Promoting Canada’s National
Interests through Tighter Ties with the U.S. (2003), Who Killed
the Canadian Military? (2004; paper ed., 2004, 2008), Hell’s
Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004),
Battle Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004),
The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second
World War, 1939-1945 (2005), The
Special Commission on the Restructuring of the Reserves, 1995: Ten Years Later
(2005), The Land Newly Found: Eyewitness
Accounts of the Canadian Immigration Experience
(2006), Whose War Is It? How
Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World
(2007, 2008), and A Threatened Future: Canada’s Future Strategic
Environment and Its Security Implications (2007). He is now
preparing (with Dean Oliver) The Companion to Canadian Military
History (Oxford University Press/Canadian War Museum, 2010).
Granatstein is married and lives in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian History, Military History, Canada-US
Relations, Defence and Foreign Policy
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FRANK
HARVEY
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Frank P. Harvey was recently appointed University Research Professor
of International Relations, Dalhousie University. He held the 2007 J.
William Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies (SUNY,
Plattsburgh), is a Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Defence
and Foreign Affairs Institute, and was former Director of the Centre
for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie. His books include The
Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and Future of American
Insecurity (2008, Routledge), Smoke
and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the Illusion of Multilateral
Security (University
of Toronto Press, 2004) – Runner-up 2004-05 Donner Book Prize, and
finalist 2005-2006 Harold Adam Innis book prize. His other books
include Millennium Reflections on International Studies
(co-edited with Michael Brecher, University of Michigan Press, 2002);
Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and
Evidence (with David Carment, Praeger, 2001); Conflict
in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War and Peace
(co-edited with Ben Mor, Macmillan Press 1998); The Future’s Back:
Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory and Crisis Stability After The Cold
War (McGill-Queen’s, 1997).
He has published widely on post-9/11 security, the Iraq war, American
foreign and security policy, nuclear and conventional deterrence,
coercive diplomacy, proliferation, crisis decision-making, protracted
ethnic conflict and national missile defence in International
Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of
Politics, International Journal, International Negotiation, Security
Studies, International Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of
Political Science, and Conflict Management and Peace Science
(among others). His commentaries have appeared in the Globe and Mail
and National Post. Professor Harvey received Dalhousie's Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and
the Burgess Research Award in 2000. He was a NATO Research Fellow from
1998-2000 and has received grants from the Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of National
Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
He is the co-author of "To Secure a Nation:
Canadian Defence and Security in the 21st Century: The Case for a New
Defence White Paper" (prepared with Jim Fergusson and Rob Huebert for
the Council for Canadian Security).
Keywords: Globalization and terrorism, unilateral vs.
multilateral approaches to security, comparative multilateralism, WMD
proliferation, US & Canadian foreign, security and defence policy,
homeland and continental security, ballistic missile defence, nuclear
and conventional deterrence, NATO military strategy and third-party
intervention, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention.
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SHARON
HOBSON
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Sharon Hobson has been the Canadian correspondent
for Jane’s Defence Weekly since April 1985. She also writes a
regular column for Canadian Sailings and Canadian Naval
Review, and has written occasional features for the Financial
Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Canadian Defence Quarterly.
She is co-author with Vice-Admiral Dusty Miller of a book on the
Canadian navy in the Persian Gulf War, The Persian Excursion,
which was published in April 1995. In 2004, she won the Ross Munro
Media Award for defence writing.
Keywords: Canadian Defence, Media-Military Relations
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MIKE
JEFFERY
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Mike
Jeffery has over 39 years service in the Canadian Forces. He started
military service as a Rifleman in the Essex and Kent Scottish, but
soon joined the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery under the
Canadian Army Soldier Apprentice Programme. After his commissioning in
1967, he served in a variety of command and staff positions both in
Canada and overseas. These included Commanding Officer of Third
Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, Canadian Contingent Commander
to the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) in Namibia,
Commandant of the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College and
Commander of the lst Canadian Division. He served as Chief of the Land
Staff from August 2000 to May 2003. He retired from the CF, in the
rank of Lieutenant General, on 1 August 2003.
Mike is a graduate of the Long Gunnery Staff Course (Field and
Locating) (UK), the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College,
The US Army Command and General Staff College and the National Defence
College. In 2000, he was promoted in the Order of Military Merit to
the grade of Commander. In 2004 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
Degree from the Royal Military College.
Mike runs his own consulting business, focusing on defence,
security and strategic planning. He is also the Honorary Campaign
Chairman for the Royal Canadian Artillery Heritage Campaign.
Keywords: Strategic planning, change management, Canadian
defence policy, Canadian forces/army, defence management, Canadian-US
security relations.
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SARAH
MEHARG
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Dr. Sarah Jane Meharg is Adjunct Professor at the
Royal Military College of Canada and the Senior Research Associate at
the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Ottawa Canada. She is Canada’s
leading post-conflict reconstruction expert and specializes in the
research and implementation of advanced technologies for
reconstruction initiatives. Dr Meharg focuses on economic acceleration
in regions experiencing economic transitions, including post-conflict
and post-disaster environments such as Afghanistan, Haiti and the
Balkans.
Dr Meharg has received numerous commendations for developing her
unique theory of conflict–identicide (1997)–which defines the
precursor stages of genocide. Dr. Meharg is currently researching economic
acceleration; the environment of peace operations; military geography;
and identicide/genocide.
Dr. Meharg serves as a research fellow with
organizations such as the Centre for Security and Defence Studies
(CSDS) and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
and the Security and Defence Forum (SDF). Dr Meharg is president of
Peace and Conflict Planners Canada Inc., a firm that specializes in
economic and cultural reconstruction and new-use technology
applications for conflict and disaster affected environments. Clients
include both domestic and international organizations and governments.
Dr Meharg develops “futures” concepts for
application in her fields of study, and has a unique specialization in
connecting defence, humanitarian, government, academic and private
sector interests. She has written numerous chapters and articles,
including two recent books: Helping Hands and Loaded Arms:
Navigating the Military and Humanitarian Space (Canadian
Peacekeepers Press: Cornwallis N.S., 2007), and Measuring What
Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management (McGill-Queen’s
University Press: Kingston, 2009).
Dr Meharg recently collaborated with the
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at the US Army
War College in the publication
“Security Sector Reform: A Case Study
Approach to Transition and Capacity Building” (January 2010).
Keywords:
Post-conflict reconstruction, reconstruction and stabilization
operations, military geography, identicide, genocide, nation-building,
contemporary armed conflict, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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STEPHEN
RANDALL
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Stephen J. Randall, FRSC, PhD (Toronto),
is Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is currently
a Fellow with the Canadian International Council working on Canadian
relations with the Caribbean and Latin America. He was Director of the
University of Calgary Institute for United States Policy Research in
the School of Public Policy (2006-2009). He served as Dean, Faculty of
Social Sciences (1994-2006) at the University of Calgary and as
Imperial Oil-Lincoln-McKay Chair in American Studies (1989-1997). He
held previous appointments at McGill University (1974-1989), and the
University of Toronto (1971-1974). He began his teaching career in
Bogota, Colombia in 1967 and is an elected member of the Royal Society
of Canada. Dr. Randall was a member of the editorial board of the
Latin American Research Review (2004-2009), as well as a
former co-editor of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs’
International Journal and the Canadian Reviews in American
Studies. A specialist in United States foreign policy and Latin
American international relations and politics, he holds the Grand
Cross, Order of Merit from the Presidency of Colombia in recognition
for his scholarly contribution to inter-American understanding. Dr.
Randall has served with the United Nations, Organization of American
States and Carter Center in international election supervision in the
Caribbean, Latin America and Southeast Asia. In 2007 he held the
Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Studies at American
University, Washington D.C. He is also the current President of the
Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association.
He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of
a number of books, including: The Diplomacy of Modernization: The
United States and Colombia, 1920-1940 (1977, Spanish edition 1989));
United States Foreign Oil Policy (1984); Hegemony and
Interdependence: Colombia and the United States (1992, Spanish edition
1992); Ambivalent Allies: Canada and the United States( 1994, 1996,
2002, with John H. Thompson); Canada and Latin America (1992, with
Mark O. Dickerson); Federalism and the New World Order (1994, with
Roger Gibbins); An International History of the Caribbean Basin(1998,
with Graeme S. Mount); North America Without Borders(1992, with Herman
Konrad); NAFTA in Transition( 1995, with Herman Konrad). His
most recent books are: United States
foreign oil policy since World War I. (2005); the
4th edition of Ambivalent Allies (2008); the
authorized biography of Alfonso López Michelsen, President of Colombia
(1974-1978) by Villegas Editores in Bogotá (2007).
Keywords: United States foreign policy, US and Canada-Latin
American relations, foreign oil policy.
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COLIN
ROBERTSON
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Colin
Robertson is Senior Strategic Advisor for the US-based law firm of
McKenna, Long and Aldridge. He
writes on international affairs and is a frequent contributor and
commentator on CTV, CBC and CPAC.
He is
current President of the Canadian International Council’s National
Capital Branch. Mr. Robertson sits on the board of the Conference
of Defence Associations Institute, Canada World Youth and he is
honorary chair of the Canada Arizona Business Council. He is a
Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs.
A career
foreign service officer from 1977-2010, Colin Robertson served as
first Head of the Advocacy Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in
Washington and Consul General in Los Angeles, with previous
assignments in Hong Kong and in New York at the UN and Consulate
General. In his final assignment he directed a project on Canada-US
Engagement at Carleton University’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law
with private and public sector support. A member of the team that
negotiated the Canada-US FTA and NAFTA, he is co-author of
Decision at Midnight: The Inside Story of the Canada-US FTA.
He is a
former President of the Historica Foundation. He was editor of
bout de papier: Canada’s Journal of Foreign Service and Diplomacy
and President of the Professional Association of Foreign Service
Officers.
He has taught at Carleton University and the Canadian School of
Public Service.
He
indicates that his smartest decision was marrying his wife Maureen
Boyd, a Vancouverite, former journalist and author. They have three
children, Allison, Sean and Conor. Robertson reads voraciously, runs
slowly, swims, cycles, and cross-country skis.
Keywords: Canada-US Relations, Mexican Relations
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ELINOR
SLOAN
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Elinor Sloan is Associate Professor of
international relations in the Department of Political Science at
Carleton University, and is a former defence analyst with Canada's
Department of National Defence. Dr. Sloan received her B.A. (Hons
Political and Economic Science) from the Royal Military College of
Canada in 1988, her M.A. (International Affairs) from the Norman
Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University,
Ottawa, in 1989, her M.A. (Law and Diplomacy) from the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, in 1995, and her PhD
(International Relations) from the Fletcher School in 1997.
Dr. Sloan's research interests include
Canadian and US military capabilities and defence policy, the Arctic,
homeland defence, ballistic missile defence, NATO and peacekeeping.
She is the author of five books, most recently Military
Transformation and Modern Conflict (Praeger Publishers, 2008)
and Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2nd edition, 2010).
Keywords:
Canadian defence policy, Canadian Forces, US defence policy, homeland
defence, ballistic missile defence, defence transformation, NATO,
NORAD.
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GORDON
SMITH
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Gordon Smith is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies, and
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Smith arrived at the University of Victoria in 1997 following a
distinguished career with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs,
which included posts as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from
1994-1997, Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from
1991-1994, and Ambassador to the Canadian Delegation to NATO, from
1985-1990. He is the author (with Moisés Naím) of Altered States:
Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance (Ottawa: IDRC, 2000),
and co-editor (with Daniel Wolfish) of Who is Afraid of the State?
Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2001), as well as numerous book chapters
and articles. Since 1997, Dr. Smith has served as Chairman of Canada’s
International Development Research Centre. He currently holds
positions as Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Climate
Studies, and Board Director of the International Forum de Montréal. He
holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.
Keywords:
Globalization, governance, security, foreign policy.
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DENIS STAIRS
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Currently Professor Emeritus in Political Science and a Faculty Fellow
in the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, Dr. Denis
Stairs attended Dalhousie, Oxford and the University of Toronto. A
former President of the Canadian Political Science Association and a
member for six years of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, he was the founding Director of Dalhousie’s Centre
for Foreign Policy Studies from 1970 to 1975.
He
served as Chair of his Department from 1980 to 1985 and as Dalhousie’s
Vice-President (Academic and Research) from 1988 to 1993. A Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Board of Directors of
the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, he specializes in Canadian foreign and
defence policy, Canada-US Relations and similar subjects.
Keywords: Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-US
relations
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Marie-Joëlle
Zahar
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Marie-Joëlle Zahar is associate professor of Political Science and
Research Director of the Francophone Research Network on Peace
Operations at the Centre for International Research and Studies at the
Université de Montréal. Her research interests include conflict
resolution, civil wars, peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction.
She is a specialist of militia politics and war economies; she also
researches the dynamics of post-conflict reconstruction.
A graduate of McGill University, she has been visiting professor at
the Université Lyon II and the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon,
visiting scholar at the Centre d’études pour le monde arabe moderne,
Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon), research fellow at
Stanford’s Center for International Security and cooperation, and
SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the Munk Centre for International
Studies (University of Toronto).
Co-editor with Stephen Saideman of Intra-State Conflict, Government
and Security: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Assurance (Routledge 2008),
her work has appeared in academic journals such as Global Governance,
Africa Spectrum, the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development,
Südosteuropa, Critique internationale, International Peacekeeping and
The International Journal as well as in multiple edited volumes on
conflict resolution and peace implementation.
A former consultant for the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and adjunct faculty member at the Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre, she served on the board of directors of the
Canadian Political Science Association, on the executive committee of
the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and as research director of
the Middle East Network at the Centre d’études et de recherches
internationales of the Université de Montréal.
Keywords:
Conflict resolution, civil wars, peacekeeping, post-conflict
resolution.
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